Naartjie Robbed of Identity

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A naartjie by any other name is still a naartjie

Or so the British supermarketers should have us believe.

See the photo and take note of what they do to naartjies in UK.

First they dress them up in a label which is enough to rob them of their dignity and then to top it all, see what they call them? Clementine. What name is that to call a naartjie? The British supermarket chains delete their given identity and rebrand them with this awful human name. Clementine.

If I was a naartjie and some jerk in a foreign land wanted to dress me in a label and call me Clementine, I’d go ballistic.

Surely if you are going to apply a local name to one of South Africa’s best loved fruits, at least have the courtesy to survey the growers for consensus on a suitable replacement! Given what naartjies are used for outside of gracing our fruitbowls and being rapturously devoured, these seemingly dainty fruits are deserving of a more robust name that projects their status among us who use them each Saturday at rugby fields around S Africa.

Maybe Tesco or Sainsbury’s and even Morrison’s can review these options and settle on one of the following - Sipho, Frik, Hannnes, Blatjang, Petrus, Sakkie or if these don’t conjur up the requisite stature of a naartjie how does Vulcan, Kudu, Conqueror, Splatter or Fokjulle sound?

You can submit more names and we can take a poll and submit the result to the supermarket buyers for their input and reaction. Please submit more names for naartjies in UK. You can use the wtf above or the comments below. I want naartjies to be naartjies wherever they are displayed on a fruit n veg shelf at supermarkets around the world.

Naartjies are naartjies and deserve to be known as this and nothing else. Clementine sounds so…..scrawny and puny and like all naartjies had their balls chopped off.

Naartjie Robbed of Identity