First remove the peeling
When you were young you turn first to your parents for instructions. They are your caregivers and your instructors on life skills. I cannot easily separate who taught me what with one exception. As trivial as it may sound I learned how to peel an orange from my father. This was not a frequent piece of food stuff. They have to be imported from far away. But you could usually find some of them in the supermarket. I do remember the supermarket. And so when first given an orange and figuring out quickly that you could not eat it in the same way you would eat an apple I had to turn to my father for more instruction. Which he gave me. I learned that you take the orange and you roll it back and forth on the tabletop with some force. You need to separate the inner peeling from the outer peeling. And with that done you then figure out how to get a single hole in the side of the orange only one layer deep. Just enough to get a small finger in. After that you work at it. Diligently. Without undue force. And if the orange is ready to be eaten the peeling will separate. Revealing all those sections inside. No that did not begin with those chocolate oranges that we later received for the holiday. It’s one of the things that just is. My parents were never big into cutting an orange into quarters. Unlike the football team. Instead you would learn to peel the orange and then you would learn to separate the sections and then you would eat it one more so at a time. Spitting out the seeds was optional. There you have it one of my earliest memories of learning how to eat.
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