it turns out that mandarins are the perfect snack food.

I still cannot believe I can literally peel them with my bare hands

and then they taste delicious

and I even like them at room temp when I usually prefer my fruit cold

dad got them to help me and mom with The Sickness that befell our house in the new year and now we're just keeping them in a bowl in the kitchen

That's the real Japanese lifestyle: sitting at your kotatsu while you peel an entire bushel of mandarin oranges and eat every single one

yeah I would absolutely be doing that

......man I want a kotatsu