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I just realized that I don't hate oranges. I hate their shells. I hate orange shells so much that it made me think that I hate oranges, because I haven't had oranges in such a long time because of their shells.
They're sort of hard to get off, more so tedious I guess, as in you have to expend more energy than I'd like to just to get that initial dig into the shell, and even after that the process of peeling it off is just slow and tedious on it's own as well.
The shell is just really tightly wrapped around the actual orange inside with no space of air at all being in there, so, that's what makes it such a bother to peel.
It has the same mood as trying to scrape a sticker off the wrong surface. Ever tried to get a dumb sticker you placed on your arm off? I guess the technicality isn't the same, but you'll get the similar "I really don't wanna bother doing this" feel.
When I get done peeling an orange, I feel as if I just got finished with an actual chore. It shouldn't feel that way with a single piece of fruit. It's okay to feel that way if you got done chopping up a plate's worth of bananas or got yourself some tomatoes, but just a single orange? No. (By the way, I don't consider tomatoes a fruit, they're not related to the sentence.)
What adds to it is how big oranges tend to be. Bigger than my fist, and I guess that doesn't say much, but they're pretty big. If they happened to be smaller, then I wouldn't mind dealing with that soul-suckingly bad peeling process. But you have to go through this entire thing the volume of an oversized tennis ball.
For me to peel an orange with my hands, I'd say it would take me upwards to a minute, maybe 30 seconds of just sitting there and peeling at least. I haven't done it in a long time, so maybe my memory isn't that well. But it's definitely not a fun time. I don't like standing there by the garbage can waiting for this to be over, just so I can have a C+ ranking fruit.
