Whatever happened to tangerines?
They used to be a Christmas treat here. We’d never heard of Mandarin Oranges. Tangerines (yes I know they’re a type of Mandarin) were sweeter and easier to peel. The only thing I can find out is there were issues with shipping.
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of how as kids we would get a tangerine in the toe of our stocking every Christmas. My sister and I were reminiscing about this just recently. We would hang up our stockings (real ones, not store bought ones) at the foot of our bed (didn't have a fireplace or mantel) and we would get a tangerine in the toe, a handful of unshelled nuts, some ribbon candy and a candy cane. Some years there were persimmons too!
Can you even imagine any child of today getting excited about that? She and I were post-WWII babies and our parents were poor. Some years were better than others, but in our large family it was understood that by the time you were thirteen you no longer received presents, or maybe you only received one gift and it was likely new winter p.j.'s.
I don't feel any worse the wear for this. As my sister and I both said, we still always looked forward to Christmas even if it was just for the brightly lit tree, and our "brightly lit" father
