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[Olive has an orange. She is just turning it over in her hands while laying on her stomach on her bed, feet up in the air.] So, did you guys know that oranges are actually hybrids? Yeah, they're basically what came out of some ancient cultivation of a pomelo and a mandarin. I would love to know who had that idea, or who had the idea to make mutant fruit first, you know? Who took two different pieces of fruit in the same general family, and thought, you know, I want to combine these in some mutant awesome science so I can see the result.
Pretty sure I'd have to shake their hands, because this is the best mutant hybrid I've ever had.
[Aaand she's digging her thumb nail into it to start peeling it, tossing the rind over the side of the bed where...there is presumably a trash can.]
They also used them during the bubonic plague, I think, it was kind of cool. They took whole cloves and shoved them into an unpeeled orange, like all the way around. Early potpourri. It actually smells totally awesome.
Has anyone ever had wassail? It's this hot drink that was supposedly like mulled wine or cider or ale, but now it's like orange juice and a lot of other stuff, like cinnamon and nutmeg and...cardamon? Maybe Cardamon.
[And she has a slice sparated, now, and is holding it up for the camera.]
That, ladies and gentleman of the Barge of the Not-Quite-Damned, is how you peel an orange. Which, coincidentally, is classified as a type of berry. Which I still find kind of weird. It's a hesperidium. Go ahead, say it with me. Hesperidium.
[Om nom orange.]
So I propose someone decorates oranges with cloves and helps me hang them all over the barge.
That, or someone play pool with me.
Pretty sure I'd have to shake their hands, because this is the best mutant hybrid I've ever had.
[Aaand she's digging her thumb nail into it to start peeling it, tossing the rind over the side of the bed where...there is presumably a trash can.]
They also used them during the bubonic plague, I think, it was kind of cool. They took whole cloves and shoved them into an unpeeled orange, like all the way around. Early potpourri. It actually smells totally awesome.
Has anyone ever had wassail? It's this hot drink that was supposedly like mulled wine or cider or ale, but now it's like orange juice and a lot of other stuff, like cinnamon and nutmeg and...cardamon? Maybe Cardamon.
[And she has a slice sparated, now, and is holding it up for the camera.]
That, ladies and gentleman of the Barge of the Not-Quite-Damned, is how you peel an orange. Which, coincidentally, is classified as a type of berry. Which I still find kind of weird. It's a hesperidium. Go ahead, say it with me. Hesperidium.
[Om nom orange.]
So I propose someone decorates oranges with cloves and helps me hang them all over the barge.
That, or someone play pool with me.