Could you please tell me the correct way to peel an orange in polite company?

Answer 1

I just take out my teeth and go to town

Answer 2

Well, do as the Italians do....

Curiously, in contradiction to Italy's usual low-tech, 'hands-on' way of doing things, Italians don't seem to like to use their mouths to handle fruit. Instead of just biting into an apple and enjoying that succulent moment when the teeth burst through the shining skin, they will peel all the skin off an apple with a knife. (Hey, the skin's the best bit!) Their approach to an orange is even more over the top. Here again, us Yanks and Brits like to notch lightly into the pith with our two front teeth and then rip the rest of the skin off with our thumbs, competing to see who can get it all off in one piece. Italians however will take a sharp knife and spend about five minutes scoring the skin into five or six equal segments of geometric purity before carefully using the blade to gradually draw back the skin and reverently expose the fruit below

Answer 3

slice the bottom of the orange of and the top with a knife. than cut across the orange all around and peel of. i wish i could explain better. but never use your hands alone, use a knife

Answer 4

You are never to peel anything in polite company. If you had to ask this you should know the answer.

Answer 5

Any "messy" food, oranges included, should likely not be eaten in polite company.

Answer 6

Slowly and discreetly! That's a tough one cause oranges are rather messy.

Answer 7

i have a gadget that scores the skin of an orange then it makes it easier to peel, i got it from one of those PAMPERED CHEF PARTIES,

Answer 8

Here's one reason NOT to hang out with stuffy people.
How much fun can something be if you have to worry about every little movement. And if it's not fun...why be there?

Answer 9

With a knife is the best.