How did people eat the oranges that Nell Gwynn sold at the theatre?

Orange is the only fruit ... Gemma Arterton playing Nell Gwynn in Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

How did people eat the oranges that Nell Gwynn and others sold at the theatre? They wouldn’t want to sit through the whole performance with sticky fingers, would they?

Peter Billing, Portsmouth

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