Ingenious Fruit Design: Pentagon Oranges, From Japan, Bred to Never Roll Away
Posted: February 1, 2014 Filed under: Food & Drink, Humor, Japan | Tags: Citrus, design, Ehime Prefecture, Fruit, Heart (symbol), Iyokan, Japan, Japanese citrus, orange, Pentagon 2 Comments
ALERT THE NSA: SUSPICIOUS MILITARY-INSPIRED DESIGN RAISES THREAT LEVEL FROM JAPANESE FRUIT-TERROR CAMPAIGN’S SECRET CITRUS-ENGINEERING HEADQUARTERS
RocketNews24 reports:
From creepy pears in the shape of a baby to heart-shaped and watermelons, Japan has the market cornered on unusually shaped fruit. Now we’ve come across a five-sided orange produced in Ehime Prefecture.
Pentagon oranges and their happy inventors.
The pentagon-shaped iyokan, a Japanese citrus fruit similar to an orange or mandarin, were grown by the Hizuchi Tachibana 4H Club. Not only do they have a unique shape, the fruits have a cute play-on-words name, as goukaku iiyokan can mean “pentagon iyokan citrus” and “to have a good feeling about passing” depending on the Chinese characters used…
The idea was conceived five years ago and it took a full three years for a successful crop of pentagon oranges to be produced. Farmers must carefully encase each fruit in a mold, which presses up against the fruit as it grows to form the pointed sides…
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