Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — How to Eat an Orange. [ARTICLE]

How to Eat an Orange.

I beg of you to implore your friends never again to insult such noble fruit as to eat it with a spoon. Let them adhere strictly to the following directions as to how to eat an orange: Place the orange on a nice, clean white plate, then quarter it with a silver knife. Take one of the quarters in your fingers and loosen the peel from each end at the same time, until there is but a quarter of an inch of the peel adhering to the center of the section. Then seize the two points of peel with your left thumb and forefinger, and hold it as you would a tuberose; with the right hand draw the blade through the center of the fruit, as far as the peel; if all the seeds do not drop out, why, then just pick them out with the knife. Then raise the fruit gently to your mouth, nip off one of the little juicy lumps, and you will never say spoons again. —New Orleans letter.