# Blood Oranges Need a New PR Person **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630 "2008-04-02T02:49:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/1 "2008-04-02T02:49:50Z")
I love them, but I’m afraid they’ll disappear completely if they don’t change their name. I have to admit…the first time I ever had one, I was squeamish. Squeamish! Because of the name combined with their looks! And I know this is a total testament to the power of the human mind, because if they had been called pomegranate oranges or scarlet oranges or fire oranges or red paint oranges…I would not have thought twice. But that _name._ I’ve certainly grown past it. I really love their combination of sweetness and tartness. I love their color. I peeled and separated a few in the lunch room the other day and offered them. Everyone went “Ewww…” and wouldn’t touch 'em. More for me, but, as I said, I’d rather they not die out. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/2 "2008-04-02T03:01:14Z")
Really? I like blood oranges BECAUSE of the name. It’s childish and silly, but its a totally badass name, and one that’s enough of a reason for my male brain to go “AWESOME!” Anytime I can feast on the blood of oranges is a good day indeed for myself. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/3 "2008-04-02T03:01:27Z")
I agree. And isn’t that a blood orange in the opening credits of _Dexter_, the TV series about a serial killer who kills serial killers? [Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5WpxxJpL-g) to the video – it’s at about 1:12 in. (Safe for work, except for the sound.) ---
**Author:** ![Maui\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Maui\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maui_Lion)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/4 "2008-04-02T03:14:12Z")
I always thought their name was kinda cool-slash-fantasyish-slash-exotic. Sure at first you do kind of cringe, but then you can’t help but think they’re pretty after a while. I admit I haven’t tried them yet. I don’t even think many places here on Maui carry them. Maybe I should drive to the store and really look, because I know I haven’t really actively looked for them yet. EDIT: Oh yeah, and gotta buy some plastic vampire teeth if I find them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/5 "2008-04-02T03:20:21Z")
Seriously, this grosses people out? Why? I’ve never even thought of it as weird. Just a red orange, people. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/6 "2008-04-02T03:29:57Z")
I have to admit, I’d never even seen a blood orange until last week. I grabbed a bag of oranges from the shelf at Trader Joe’s and brought them home, thinking they were just oranges. I took a couple to work one day and sliced one open to have for breakfast and was completely shocked. Ok, this wasn’t what I expected, I guess this is what’s called a ‘blood orange’. Thomas said he loved them, so they must be good. . . I simply could not bring myself to try them. Eventually I did take a bite, and I can’t say it was bad, but I just couldn’t reconcile it in my mind, so in the trash it went. I’m so embarrassed. :o ---
**Author:** ![supergoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/7 "2008-04-02T03:35:38Z")
I’ve never actually tried one (I’m not a fan of tart), but add me to the list of people who would do so \*because \*of the name. There’s just something really comical in combining fruit with vampires. I might actually have to find one to try now. So, given that your aim is to aid blood orange PR, you have succeeded completely. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/8 "2008-04-02T03:48:36Z")
[QUOTE=supergoose] … There’s just something really comical in combining fruit with vampires. … [/QUOTE] Fruitbats! Or bat-fruit. Nah, the OP’s idea of “fire oranges” was pretty good, but I suppose the marketing people would be afraid of being accused of inciting the kiddies to eat fire. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/9 "2008-04-02T03:50:09Z")
I grow Sanguinelli blood oranges. They are so red, they look nearly black when cut open. if anyone is interested, I can try to post a photo tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/10 "2008-04-02T04:27:03Z")
[QUOTE=Runs With Scissors] scarlet oranges [/QUOTE] Yep, Scarlett’s got some [oranges](http://www.fresh99.com/images/scarlettjohanson/sggg--(5).jpg) all right. 😛 Italians like blood orange juice. They just call it _arancia rossa_ = red orange. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/11 "2008-04-02T04:51:27Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff] I grow Sanguinelli blood oranges. They are so red, they look nearly black when cut open. if anyone is interested, I can try to post a photo tomorrow. [/QUOTE] Please do ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/12 "2008-04-02T05:39:47Z")
Blood oranges are so good! I wish they were cheaper and easier to find around here. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/13 "2008-04-02T07:37:30Z")
You could always go for the geeky and call them Klingon Blood Oranges. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/14 "2008-04-02T10:48:09Z")
I searched them out and tried them because of the name. I didn’t care for the taste that much, and the price assures that I won’t buy them. Due to the color of the skin on ripe ones, I don’t think you want to use the universal joke word Klingon. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/15 "2008-04-02T10:51:12Z")
I love those things. And they’re blood oranges. Please don’t be a frigging pansy. Supermarkets here in the UK have taken to calling them ‘ruby red oranges’, on the vanishingly rare occasions they’re stocked, that is. Idiots. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/16 "2008-04-02T14:34:53Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] Please do [/QUOTE] OK, here are some photos: A couple of oranges, before cutting: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/2202/2383014634_7ba24f681f_z.jpg "Oranges") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/2383014634/) Same oranges, after being cut by a ceramic knife: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/3082/2383014712_c80b7173ab_z.jpg "Oranges\_cut") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/2383014712/) “Orange” juice obtained by hand-squeezing: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/3117/2383014768_30b04bb917_b.jpg "Juice") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/2383014768/) Juice is not sour, but also not very sweet. Has a distinctive raspberry taste. Also tastes a little like red wine. I like squeezing the juice into regular orange juice, to give it a nice deep color. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/17 "2008-04-02T14:45:29Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff] OK, here are some photos: A couple of oranges, before cutting: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/2202/2383014634_7ba24f681f_z.jpg "Oranges") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/2383014634/) Same oranges, after being cut by a ceramic knife: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/3082/2383014712_c80b7173ab_z.jpg "Oranges\_cut") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/2383014712/) “Orange” juice obtained by hand-squeezing: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/3117/2383014768_30b04bb917_b.jpg "Juice") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/2383014768/) Juice is not sour, but also not very sweet. Has a distinctive raspberry taste. Also tastes a little like red wine. I like squeezing the juice into regular orange juice, to give it a nice deep color. [/QUOTE] Oh, my goodness! That makes my supermarket blood oranges look like wimpy little shits! Mine have always been more tequila-sunrisey - dark on the edges of each segment, shading to regular orange color in the center. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/18 "2008-04-02T14:46:15Z")
I was stationed in Sicily for two years. When these things came into season, they were so plentiful that they were unloaded cheap. I’d get about eight of them for about thirty or forty cents. When I see what the stores around here charge for them, I kind of miss that. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/19 "2008-04-02T14:47:57Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Supermarkets here in the UK have taken to calling them ‘ruby red oranges’, on the vanishingly rare occasions they’re stocked, that is. Idiots. [/QUOTE] Perhaps that’s to appeal to the people who like pink grapefruit. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630/20 "2008-04-02T14:50:49Z")
The Kroger near me sells them as “oranges”- the first time I bought one and opened it I thought it was a rotten orange, but then figured it out- pleasantly surprised at the taste. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-oranges-need-a-new-pr-person/443630.md?page=2)