Mandarines Galore!

I have no idea why, and neither does my girlfriend, but her mother decided a few weeks ago to send us a box full of mikan, or mandarines.

We just didn’t bother counting them. They are just many of them and we were worried they might go bad before we can eat them all. My girlfriend came up with the perfect solution: drink them.

So, we went out, bought ourselves a juicer and in the next morning, I squeezed a good dozen mandarines to pour two glasses of delicious fresh pulpy mandarine juice. A part of a complete breakfast!

It’s a lot sweeter than what I expected. And although I usually don’t like pulp, I loved the one in our juice.

I wish I could fill a glass for you. We still have many mandarines left. However, packing the juice in a sealed container and having it shipped to your place before it goes bad is probably impossible. This is why you’ll have to enjoy the juicy photos I have for you today! (Please don’t try to print those pictures and squeeze the paper sheets in a juicer. Who knows what may come out.)

Here’s the only thing remotely related to Japan in this post, your Japanese pun of the day:

「蜜柑ジュースは未完です。」
Mikan juusu wa mikan desu.
“The mandarin juice isn’t ready.”

(Many people will smack you in Japan for doing a pun. I’ll elaborate on this later. In the meantime, wear a safety helmet when saying one here. You’ve been warned.)