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I was buying a soda at the convenient store across the street from the newspaper yesterday when I spied this citrus variety in the fruit basket next to the cash register.  The cashier owner told me it was a crossed lemon/orange. A guy in line behind me insisted it was a tangelo, but it did look like a lemon and I was intrigued. So I bought it and decided to find out for myself. It indeed had a lemony and tart taste,  with a hint of orange flavor and an orange-colored rind. I had fun playing tricks on people around the office, offering "a piece of orange" then watching their faces scrunch in sour anguish. But who knew such a fruit existed?!? So I went back to the store, bought the last two and my obsession since then has been figuring out what it is. (When I asked the store owner where he got it, he said, "Ahhh, that's a secret.") But I think I found it. It appears to be a Meyer lemon, according to my research, which is indeed a hybrid lemon/orange....
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