Post #121297 by Gigantalope on Sat, Oct 23, 2004 10:39 AM

Good call Kono, there's more crap than good overall, and those Grapfruit you were offered taste like paper recycle bin.

On the other hand, fresh grapefruit juice has a vitality about it that's hard to put into words.

The thing about citrus is that it's so different than other types of fruit...It's kind of why I have the Marmalade obsession...actually I enjoy complex foods which have tastes of wildy different things at once. Having a piece of very Dark Chocolate, letting that sit in your craw for a few minutes to warm...then sipping a Raspberry Lambic is like that. Philharmonic in it's range of sweet to sour.

The Orange was thought to have evolved in China, India was the first major stop in the travel of our citrus, and the first mention of Oranges in Sanskrit literature is found in a medical book called the Charkara-Samhita, which was compiled approximately two thousand years ago. The Hindus called an orange a Naranga, the first syllable of which was a prefix meaning fragrance. This became the Persian meaning Naranj, a word the Muslims carried through the Mediterranean. In Byzanttium, an orange was a "Nerantzion". This in Neo-Latin, became variously styled as "Arangium","Arantium", and "Aurantium" thus eventually producing the "Naraanja" in Spain, "Laranja" in Portugal, "Arancia" in Italy, and "Orange" in France.

Meanwhile, the Roman city of Arausio, in the south of France had become in the provencal language, "Aurenja"- a name almost identical in sound and spelling to "auranja" the Provencal word for Orange. Gradually the names of the city and the fruit evolved on the provencal tongue to "Orenge", and then to "Orange"

In the early sixteenth century, Philbert of Orange, prince of the city, was awarded a good part of the Netherlands for his political and military skulduggery to the Holy Roman Emperor, Chareles V. The prince had no immediate heir, and his possessions and title were eventually passed on to a German nephew, this was William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, who later founded the Dutch Republic and the House of Orange. In honor of William's descendants, Dutch explorers named the Orange River in South Africa, and Cape Orange in northern Brazil. Fort Orange was the name of a Dutch settlement that eventually developed into Albany New York.
After a Protestant prince of the House of Orange had served as King William III of England, a movement known as Orangism was founded by Irish Protestants, who established "The Orange Society" and called their part of Ireland, "The Orange".
Commemorating their causes on the landscape of the New World, emigrant Orangemen gave the name "Orange" to towns and cities and bodies of water from Lake Orange, Maine, to Orangeburg, South Carolina. Orangemen changed the name of Newark Mountain, New Jersey, to Orange Dale, which eventually became simply Orange, New Jersey. It's satellite towns of West Orange, South Orange, and East Orange- all as the result of a similarity of sound between the name of a transalpine Roman city, and a citrus fruit incorrectly named.

Orange Couny Ca however was named after the fruit crop that it was famous for when it broke off from LA county.