What a weird looking thing to find in my fruit (Sept 1, 2008)

Current mood:adventurous

Dear Blog, 
Today I got all experimental in the middle of the night, and while on the phone with my boyfriend (we'll call him Carl), I wandered over to Marsh for spome late night healty snacking materials. After a brief (and now regretted) trip over to the rice cakes, I meandered through the store and eventually found my way to the fruits and fresh produce aisle.
There, wonder after wonder met my eyes as I browsed the selection of things that I had ne'er even heard of before, in addition to some that I had and had never tried.  I found hybrid fruits, organic fruits, and disfigured fruits. All were sending wave after wave of excitement up my spine as I ogled them. 
I decided on 4. I bought a nectarine. I bought an apricot. I bought a plum. And then, then I bought the most wonderous thing... I bought a pluot. When first I came upon the sign for the pluots, I misread it and thought they were plutos, but upon reading it a fifth time, I realized they were, in fact, pluots. (Admittely, I like plutos better.) All this wonderment was apparently spilling from me in exctied gasps becuase Carl was laughing himself half to death at me on the other end of the line.
I took my purchases home, and began my voyage into fruits unknown.

I think I started out with the apricot. I loved my apricot. It was soft and smooth and I wanted to keep it as a pet. I'd never encountered a real one before. I dare say that I didnt want to tear its soft soft flesh. But I did. Inside was the most horrible seed thing I had ever encountered to that point in my life. And yes, it startled me and I made a noise. Really, it looked like a big mutilated pumpkin seed. And now that I think about it, the apricot kinda smelled like pumpkin guts, you know, when you're carving one....? Anyway, I did try it and while I loved my apricot whole, I think the eat-able ones aren't for me. It wasn't bad.... But it didn't really have much in the way of taste. It was like chewing on nothing, only nothing had a strange texture.
THEN I decided to try my plum. Alltogether not a bad fruit. I bit it instead of peeling it apart like my sweet little apricot. And it was really kinda like an apple. Very similar. And so, I pried it open and lo! Another weird alien seed pod thing! This time, bigger and grainier. It looked like bark, kinda.
So I've made it to my nectarine. I poked my nectarine first. I dug a fingernail into it and smelled the resulting tear. It smelled GOOD! I licked it. It tasted good, too! I took a bite. I was less impressed with the actual fruit. It wasn't bad, but the fruit juice taste was somewhat misleading. Or my taste buds had gone into NEW STUFF shock. Anyway, I pried it open and founf the strangest seed yet! It was dark red and slimy. It was like a hard, cold heart in the middle of something sweet and unthreatening and it kinda shocked me. 
I saved my pluto for last. I was wide-eyed as I prepped myself for the pluot. Pluots are sometimes called dinosaur egg plums, as they're speckely. Right inside the skin of this marvelous fruit is pulp. And its red. REALLY red. Like crushed up bugs in your food-dye red. And the center is white and kinda apply. It fades through really cool like. And once again, in the middle there was a big ol whomping pit. It was similar to the first pit that I found though, and I was getting used to those. The taste wasn't bad, for a genetically weird fruit, but I think that I'm not going to go out of my way to eat them. 
All in all, it was a fun experience, even if the fruits were not to my particular liking. I still got to make an unholy mess with them and try something new.
Now, I think I'm going to go wash the nectarine out of my hair and talk to my Carl. :D