Sarah Jane Smith eats oranges by directly biting them?
Am I just culturally ignorant or is this an odd way to eat an orange?
In 1976, the Doctor Who serial The Masque of Mandragora shows Sarah Jane Smith eating an orange by directly biting it, and then removing the peel from her mouth.
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Is this ... normal? Was this a thing in the 1970s? Am I taking crazy pills?
I mean, obviously you can bite straight into a lemon, as the peel is mild enough to just directly eat.
To be clear, Sarah Jane Smith is an ordinary British human from 1980, and she is on Earth. This is a normal Earth orange tree with normal oranges.
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Rhysy
in reply to Isaac Kuo • • •Not sure, but it looks more like an apple to me. Biting an orange without peeling it is every bit as much as a psychopath-flag in the UK as biting directly into an unpeeled banana.
On the other hand maybe that's why nobody talks about the 1970s.
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Andreas G
in reply to Isaac Kuo • • •But she takes something out of her mouth afterwards.
Definitely citrusy-witrusy goings-on.
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Isaac Kuo
in reply to Isaac Kuo • • •@Rhysy Thanks for your "psychopath-flag" commentary (I'm not a UK person so I really don't know myself).
Anyway, they absolutely were oranges and that's an orange tree. Maybe the script originally called for apples but all they had available was orange trees.
BTW, at 0:25 Sarah Jane Smith explicitly says they're oranges.
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Andreas G
in reply to Isaac Kuo • • •Seems like the actor died in 2011 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabet…
Any nefarious behavior seems to have been covered up, no doubt by the MI13 Bureau for extraterrestrial coveruppances.
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