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[Crazy4Coffee]

I am shocked by the reviews people have posted for honeybells. It's so disappointing

that so many got rotten, not ripe, sliced open, not sweet, green and brown ones.

After months of waiting for ours last year, I wasn't about to buy this year.

They offered 15 pounds for 54 dollars last year, and look at the prices they are

trying to rob us with this year!!!!!! I'm sure all the people that gave one star would

have like to have given no stars! QVC needs to do some better quality checks, and

make sure they are from Florida, not Harry and David!!!!! UGH!!!!!!

[rockygems123]

@Crazy4Coffee if you have mineolas in your grocery store try them, pretty sure they're the same and no issues for quality control then.

[LizzieInSRQ]

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@rockygems123 wrote:

@Crazy4Coffeeif you have mineolas in your grocery store try them, pretty sure they're the same and no issues for quality control then.

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That is exactly what they are. Mineola Tangelos.

[Grade1Teach]

I agree and those reviews are telling the absolute truth.

I used to buy these every year and they were INCREDIBLE!  I used to purchase the biggest box and then go back for more.  My family couldn't get enough of them.  However, the last two shipments I received were absolutely awful.  They were brown, green, bruised, "torn", and just overall very unappealing.  I know that sometimes looks can be deceiving with oranges, but in my case, they tasted worse than they looked.  We stopped buying them at that point and haven't made a Cushman's purchase in a few years.  It's sad because they were honestly the best tasting citrus I have ever eaten.

[Largoman]

I can't speak to the quality of the fruit, but I can speak of the price.

I live in Florida, and orange groves took a major hit from Hurrican Ian.  Some groves lost from 50 to 90% of their crop.  Hence, the higher prices.

[CJC]

There are very few orange groves remaining in Florida. Farmers and ranchers have all sold out to developers, hence adding to Florida's major problems with congestion, pollution, traffic, flooding, infrastructure. Stopping along the road for a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice is long gone, along with Old Florida. You'll do better buying oranges at your grocery. 

[millieshops]

@rockygems123   Even the mineolas I buy locally in any of my Florida supermarkets vary in quality and price. Neither the price or the quality seems to have all that much to do with where they were grown, but rarely are they from Florida.

[ValuSkr]

If they were good, I might pay that price for oranges that you eat out-of-hand.  But therein lies the rub - they're oranges for juicing, not snacking!  And that turns into an EXPENSIVE glass of orange juice.  Liquid gold essentially.

[Moonlady]

Yes to the supermarket mineolas; they're delicious. But I'm confused about these honeybells. (We no longer get QVC.) If QVC is still selling them as Cushman's (the man with the bib?) they shouldn't be, since Harry and David bought them out about 15 years ago.

Notwithstanding local weather issues, I'm not sure if HD maintained the quality for a few years after that. But I do remember that reviews were soon overwhelmingly horrible, with many posting pics of pretty gross-looking fruit.

[Starpass]

I am not going to pay $35. for 6 pieces of any kind of fruit!