the elusive orange

[Dona Maria]

So my friend and I were really bored last night and we started talking about oranges. It came to the point where we couldn't agree on how many wedges make up an orange. She said 10 and I said 8. Obviously the easiest thing to do would be to go out and buy a freakin orange and find out, but alas, we are poor starving college kids sharing rent with the mice downstairs and can't afford fresh fruit.

So I ask you: how many do you think it is?

[Deathosaurus Wrecks]

five. five is the number that solves everything.

[The Devil Himself]

The ones I buy have 666 slices.

[BMHadoken]

4, you can do it in quarters...

[IHateMakingNames]

1, an orange is one slice... Just put the entire thing in your mouth

[Forever Zero]

*sigh* This forum really need a Random topic section again.

However, I think it's 6.

[BMHadoken]

IHMN, your suggesting no slices...

1 slice would be making a cut, then unwrapping it without any breaks...

And its all about how you cut the orange really...like asking how many little breakaway parts there are to a banana...

[Lost in Time]

8. Cut once for halves, then twice more for quarters. Now four more times for eights. Only way to eat an orange. Or else whole, like IHMN stated.

[Dynamite Kid]

I think what's being referred to is how many partioned sections are already present in the orange. In the average orange there are 8, but I think there are exceptions; some have 6. I usually eat pears, but I nicked one off my flatmate. We rich postgrads can afford fruit and veg.

[Lycanthrope]

Like Johnny, I go with 5, since its difficult to cut an orange into 23 slices. Baring that, 7, or 13, or 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 slices will do.

Edit: 9, or 10, or 11, or 12, or... ah screw it and eat the damn orange!

[Illuminatus]

My oranges come cut into 7,000 little bitty bits.

It's called pulp.

[Wintermute]

my friend knifed an orange in half in midair. 2 slices.

no joke.

[Jack of Spades]

8 seems about right...I just bite it tho

[Martyr]

It's 8. I 8 an orange recently. 8 has gotta be right, because it's impossible that there are only 6. There ain't 10 either.

[Meister]

A friend of mine did do a scientific research on the matter with tangerines. He ate 100 of 'em over the course of as many days and counted the slices (so as to make percentage numbers). I can't recall the exact result, but I remember the vast majority had 10 slices.

If you're willing to accept tangerines as a substitute, I'd like to think of this as ultmiate proof.

[JoeCB]

As I am being fed by the wonder ful US Govenment and its Produce of the Phillipeans oranges I will say form 8 - 12 peices in each fruit. I have never ever seen one wiht only 6. just think, those are some big damn peices.

Funny how its hard to find an orange in orange county.