Rec | YUZU

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Yuzu is the cool girl of the citrus universe (clementine once held the throne but she aged out, decrepit hag). Yuzu is everywhere; she's in cocktails, she's in pastries, you know she's in the hot sauce. Lime is a has been and yuzu is the right now. Orange has, quite frankly, dropped the ball. Orange used to be our linguistic conundrum, not-like-the-other-citruses because nothing rhymed with her. Then yuzu showed up, containing both a "y" and "z," and orange was found dead in a ditch. Yuzu didn't stop there, having not one but TWO "u"s; she throws bananagrams for a loop so hard we might as well change it to yuzugrams. She's the alpha and the omega, and the reason lemon is in therapy to this very day.

@ellie

Dec 11, 2023

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