Now With Real Orange Flavoring

There is a special summer subway surprise at the uptown 137th Street 1 train stop.  Something wonderful, aside from merely emerging from the ancient underground.  Lingering within the grime and odeur of the tunnel there is a very slight orange scent.  As you approach the turnstiles, it becomes a little stronger.  As you head up the stairs, it becomes a little stronger yet.  And when you finally emerge completely onto the madness of upper Broadway, you become completely engulfed in the zestiness of orange peel scent.  At the top of the stairs, there is a man (next to the lady who sells the fantastic tamales for only $1) who uses one of those old fashioned peelers--where you put the to-be-peeled object in the middle of a horizontal rod and then turn a crank and the peel comes off in curls-- to take the orange part off of oranges.  He then carefully cuts them in half and bags up about 4 of them.  He throws away all the zest from what I can tell, and people buy the sort-of-peeled oranges and suck the juice out of them.  I see all these stripy-peeled orange halves all over the streets up here.  Why do they do this?  I really would like an answer if anyone knows it.  I just cannot understand the reason to take the orange part off, unless the man is just trying to make the subway smell better, in which case, I applaud his efforts.  He's working against 100 years of ew.

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