Sophie,
Thanks for posting your review -- customer feedback is important to us. We do pay attention, and take every comment seriously to try and get better at what we do.
Your order was for Honey Tangerines. They are very sweet fruit, with a distinctive flavor. Individual tastes are different, though, so it might be that you were expecting a more tart flavor typical of other Tangerines. To find out, we'll send you a box of Temples -- they have higher acid than Honey T's, and a lot of people prefer that kind of flavor.
As far as the appearance of the fruit -- we do ship fruit with more blemishes than a lot of the gift fruit shippers. There are two reasons. First, we don't spray our fruit very much, preferring to try and establish natural pest and predator balances in the field to minimize pesticide use. The downside of that is that if there are no pests, there's no food source for the predators, so if we kill all the bad things, the good things go with them. Generally the fruit looks good, but there are some that were blemished during periods of temporary imbalances. And, second, when we pick the fruit, the blemished ones taste as good or, usually, better than the perfect fruit. We generally pull out the worst of them for juicing, but otherwise they go in a box or bag because we try not to waste any of the fruit we worked so hard to produce.
We thank you for your order, and look forward to hearing what you think about the Temples.
Pete
Comment
Sophie, Thanks for posting your review -- customer feedback is important to us. We do pay attention, and take every comment seriously to try and get better at what we do. Your order was for Honey Tangerines. They are very sweet fruit, with a distinctive flavor. Individual tastes are different, though, so it might be that you were expecting a more tart flavor typical of other Tangerines. To find out, we'll send you a box of Temples -- they have higher acid than Honey T's, and a lot of people prefer that kind of flavor. As far as the appearance of the fruit -- we do ship fruit with more blemishes than a lot of the gift fruit shippers. There are two reasons. First, we don't spray our fruit very much, preferring to try and establish natural pest and predator balances in the field to minimize pesticide use. The downside of that is that if there are no pests, there's no food source for the predators, so if we kill all the bad things, the good things go with them. Generally the fruit looks good, but there are some that were blemished during periods of temporary imbalances. And, second, when we pick the fruit, the blemished ones taste as good or, usually, better than the perfect fruit. We generally pull out the worst of them for juicing, but otherwise they go in a box or bag because we try not to waste any of the fruit we worked so hard to produce. We thank you for your order, and look forward to hearing what you think about the Temples. Pete