darling Clementine

Clementine tangerines from Spain have landed at the grocery store.
It's enough to give you hope. For less than five dollars you get a box of them and eat them all day long.
These exotic treats peel easily, have one seed (or sometimes none) and range in taste from tangy to a subtle and romantic flavor like perfume.

Folks don't understand them sometimes because they aren't like other tangerines.
They aren't bursting with juice and they don't have the same acid bite. People don't stop to appreciate the individual virtue of the clementine for those very reasons. It's a shame.

They are as delicious as they are unassuming. I wouldn't mind eating them every day all year long if it were possible.

But the two-week sale has ended, and today when I went into the grocery store, a box of clementines was 7.99. Ouch. (That is a painful portion of an hour's pay.)

So I bought two bags of Florida tangerines for $4. Ah well. It's all good.