tbf they were the supermarket vacuum packed variety and they weren't actually whole, it was easier to cut it up than it would have been to try and do them whole.
In other supermarket foods news, while tucking into my £1.50, 1.5kg bag of clementines from Tesco I opened one of them that had a squishy bit on the skin to discover some worms inside it, so I'm now off citrus fruit for the foreseeable.