When is a tangerine not a tangerine? When it is a tomato! Italians are embracing tomato diversity as farmers, breeders and eaters select new orange tomatoes to take advantage of loosening seed regulations in the EU.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/orange-toms/
With @matteo_petitti of @retesemi
Two explainers on tomato colour at
https://frogsleapfarm.blogspot.com/2014/04/genetic-control-of-fruit-color-in.html and
http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/Tomato/color.html
I cannot recall anything but red tomatoes from my youth. Yellow was dangerously exotic maybe 30 years ago. All that diversity, hiding out of plain sight!
Jeremy Cherfas, Oct 21 2022 on stream.jeremycherfas.net