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Yaritza P on Thursday, March 26th, 2009, filed under Travel.
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This is not really a Netherlands festival. It is, in fact, from the south of France where they actually grow citrus. These pictures are from the French Festival Citrusov.

This is truly amazing. I would love to see it in person
very talened art using fruit.
superb!
It’s hard to believe there’s such a thing as ‘world hunger’…
Awesome article! Other ways of using fruits then eating them.
TOO MANY ORANGES/LEMONS!!!!
stop playing with your food and eat it already, damnit France
This is absolutely amazing and beautiful.It’s enjoyabl to the eye and soul.
It makes you feel self actulization for enoying your senses by such colorful art work.
This is stupid.
What a waste of fruit.
They have peels. They can be eaten after.
wow !! TajMahal in NetherLands festival? cool !!!
DURING EXPO 1958, IN BELGIUM, I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF PLAYING WITH
“THE ORANGE PEELS DIXIELAND BAND”, FROM SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY,
FOR DELFT UNIVERSITY, HOLLAND, THEN CUTTING A RECORD, IN HILVER-
SUM, HOLLAND, FOR HIS MASTER’S VOICE RECORD COMPANY. HOLLAND
IS WONDERFUL, WITH OR WITHOUT ORANGES, LEMONS, ETC.! THE
DUTCH PEOPLE ARE VERY, VERY SPECIAL!
The fruit is not wasted. I am sure they find a use for it, if nothing more than fertilizer.
I agree with the comment on world hunger. It’s nice and all… but people are starving everywhere. This is kind of a slap in the face to that percentage of the population. “We have so much food that we use what we don’t eat as giant pieces of art for something as trivial as an Orange festival.”
It’s no different than the TV show Survivor. Put a bunch of rich idiots in a third world, starving country for our entertainment. I’m pretty sure the natives eventually walk up and ask “Oh, you’re starving, too?”
“Nope! This is a TV SHOW! We briefly experience the way you live day to day for FUN.. AND.. a CASH reward!”
This year they should cancel the festival and send all that fruit to Haiti.