Jaffa oranges available anywhere?

[atomeyes]

Just wondering if anyone's seen Jaffa oranges for sale anywhere in the GTA.
I saw them a few years back at Longo's at Leslie and Don Mills (around this time of year) but I haven't seen them anywhere since.

They're incredibly sweet so I'd really love to find them.

[atomeyes]

Loblaws at Millwood has large cases of the Clementine Mix (?) for $5.99

[LTL]

Longo's at Hwy 400 / Major Mackenzie has Jaffa mandarins.

[eller]

I saw Jaffa oranges at the dreaded Yonge and Eglinton Metro this afternoon.

[Vinnie Vidimangi]

Hold on a bit. Where were these Jaffa oranges grown?

A Jaffa orange should mean a navel variety called Shamouti grown in Israel. Shamouti is a local strain . It does really well in Israel. However in the late 1800's some stock that wasn't quite the same got sent to Florida under the name Jaffa, where it is still grown. Then a few years ago, Israeli growers sold Shamouti budstock and the right to use the Jaffa name to growers in Spain.
Of course taste depends on "terroir" , and Shamouti did originate in Israel as a chance sport.. Whether the fruit was picked ripe earlier in the week for local market or two months before it was ripe for export makes a world of difference.

Further complicating things is that Jaffa is used now as a brand rather than as a name for an orange variety. There is no such thing as a Jaffa mandarin in the way that the English, of a certain age, understands a Jaffa orange.

[sherry f]

My dentist in Etobicoke was handing them out this week. He told me he had bought them at the Metro at Lawrence and Weston road. They were promptly eaten in the car on the way home.

[atomeyes]

pretty certain they were Israel jaffa oranges

[sherry f]

They were definitely Israeli Jaffas, sticker and all. I bought some for us at the Metro at Bayview and Eglinton.

[lilaki]

i don't know if the OP still wants this info ...but i just picked up a bag of jaffa oranges (from israel) at longos on ponytrail. they were $4.99 for the bag.

[atomeyes]

that's both good and bad news.
i live nowhere near Mississauga :(

[toveggiegirl]

And I didn't see them at No Frills this year. :-( They seem harder to find this year.

[lilaki]

are you near a longos??? maybe other locations will carry them.

[ekammin]

It hardly qualifies as local food, but the best orange juice I've ever had was from freshly squeezed Jaffa oranges at a roadside stand in Safed, israel.

[sig]

This week I got a bag for 3.99 at Highland Farms on Dufferin! Juicy and Delicious! Get them B4 They are gone.

[atomeyes]

ooooh!

[Tatai]

I was in New Mexico recently and visited a Whole Foods there. They were selling boxes of Jaffa clementines! Couldn't buy any since I was flying out the next morning, but I'm wondering if anyone has seen Jaffa clementines here. i reckon they'd be really good.

[atomeyes]

my parents live near the Highland Farms, so they picked a bag of Jaffa oranges up for me.
these are Jaffa mandarins - still very sweet and very tasty, but are relatively smaller than the "traditional" Jaffa oranges I recall (they are the size of regular juice oranges).

[Lazar]

Picked some up this weekend....fantastic! If the mandarins are like this, I can't wait to try the Jaffa Oranges when they are available

[Helen]

Gallati on Leslie has Jaffa clementines, just bought some

[Tatai]

How do they compare to Moroccan clementines?

[cdavid]

They're back! Wholesaler FPD East of Beaconsfield, Que., has re-introduced Israel's red grapefruit, mandarins and the classic shamouti or Jaffa orange to Quebec and Ontario. The 09 season is pretty well over, so you'll have to wait til December for the next batch, but the company sounds committed to renewing the brand in Canada after a long absence.

[Lazar]

Maybe I didn't look hard enough, or ask enough staff, but I could not find Jaffa oranges anywhere. Will try again next year

[toveggiegirl]

They had loads of these at Loblaws until last week. I saw some at No Frills a couple of days ago. Maybe they are clearing out whatever didn't sell Loblaws.

[Lazar]

Which location?

[toveggiegirl]

Bathurst & Wilson.
Call first. I don't want to send you on a wild goose chase.

[Lazar]

Hey...I love a challenge....release the goose and let the chase commence!

[TorontoJo]

The Longo's at Leslie and York Mills has them -- I picked up a few over the weekend.

[pearlD]

I bought some at Loblaws (Dupont & Christie) on Saturday...I hope they taste good..they are being used in a Cake tomorrow, mind you they will be combined with cranberries and white chocolate (How bad could that be eh??)

[Squeakycheese]

Summerhill Market is probably a good bet

[JamieK]

Yes Summerhill has a good selection of different kinds of oranges and grapefruits but they only have the Jaffa mandarins, at least that's all I saw today.

[Lazar]

Curious if these are still around. I went to a couple of grocery stores local to me (west end) and didn't seem to find them. Because I was in a rush at the time I didn't get a chance to ask anyone at the store.

Will my search be fruitless (excuse the pun) if I start asking around at this time? And do I have to look at a specific locale in the city?

[estufarian]

It's still VERY early in the season - some stores still haven't featured them - but they're now starting to appear all over. I've recently seen them at Food Basics - so no need to search 'gourmet' stores.
BUT the early ones I've tried have been fairly acidic this year - not at all typical. I'm hoping it's because they really aren't fully ripe - and probably means the skin has been coloured!

[peppermint pate]

Harvest Wagon had them a couple of weeks ago.

[ssainani]

based on this post i went to the above loblaws yesterday .... they did have them .... $1.29 a pound - i bought 2

i've never tried an orange like this .... so mild and sweet -- almost like orangina!

will go back tonight on the route home to buy more

[atomeyes]

which loblaws?
the one on Millwood in East York doesn't have it.
went to Fortino's at Leslie and York Mills. they sometimes carry them but they didn't have it.

and ssainani - great to hear you like them. they also make insane juicing oranges. once you have a Jaffa orange, you won't eat any Florida oranges.

[Helen]

went to Fortino's at Leslie and York Mills.?????

Are you thinking of Longo's ?

[atomeyes]

yep. meant Longo's

[duckdown]

How about Mackinaw peaches?

[ssainani]

the loblaws on Burnamthorpe and East Mall (my favourite loblaws in the city) had Jaffa Oranges today

how are they different?

[atomeyes]

not sour, really sweet and juicy.

[Squeakycheese]

Ha! Isn't that what Kramer and Newman ate in Seinfeld? Is there really such a thing?

[duckdown]

LOL yep.

I don't know if they exist, but if they do, I want some :)

[estufarian]

Jaffa oranges ripen in the late spring/early summer, so they should be back in a couple of months.

[atomeyes]

any grocery stores you reckon that carry them?