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Oranges Yum Yum

During the depression if you got an orange in your sock You could feel blessed and lucky, and it felt like Christmas. Orange tea and orange cake delight me in all kind of ways but Marmalade I eat every morning on toast is the sweetest orange of all. Smeared on my toast, I smile at the bits and pieces of peeling I know are going to wake up my taste buds and say “hello”. Orange marmalade jam. Nothing like it. Nothing close to it. No other taste comes close although jalapeno peppers give me a perk too. When all else fails, and we are out of marmalade I might break down and have mandarin oranges But they do no justice to a sweet juicy recently peeled orange. My taste buds are going crazy as I type this. I will have to stop at the store now. Bringing home marmalade, oranges, and orange cake mix. Yum. Yum.

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Date: 12/10/2019 10:11:00 PM
Caren, Loved the appeal of orange marmalade. One of my favorites too. -Richard
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/10/2019 11:26:00 PM
I adore it! Adore it!
Date: 12/10/2019 5:18:00 PM
Yum I love orange everything!;)
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/10/2019 11:27:00 PM
Orange is also my favorite color in addition to my favorite taste.
Date: 12/10/2019 3:25:00 PM
Putting an orange in your stocking at Christmas was traditional in my mother's house growing up, it is about the sweetness of simplicity-
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/10/2019 11:27:00 PM
It was a wonderful gift during the Depression.
Date: 12/10/2019 3:21:00 PM
Ummm...orange cake...yum...
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/10/2019 11:27:00 PM
I love orange cake!
Date: 12/10/2019 2:49:00 PM
Thanks for the history lesson about oranges. So true. Heard similar from my father... And my wife, from Kharkov, Ukraine, a city of 2 million, couldn't get oranges there ether 50 weeks of the year.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/10/2019 11:27:00 PM
Isn't that sad! I cannot fathom that!

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