Thursday, June 13, 2013

They are Exotic for a reason

 Never found my passion for veggies I have always been a fruit loving kind of girl. Summer picked up some exotic fruits for us to try and we cracked into them on one night after dinner.

The large yellow one is a Papaya and the two smaller pink/red ones are Passion fruits.
Really though it is what is on the inside that counts.

My Beautiful sister working her fruit chopping talents.
  
Now as you can see the inside of the papaya is Orange and much the same texture of a cantaloupe. The part of the passion fruit that you eat looks and feels a lot like frog eggs. That is all fine and dandy but, whats that you say?  Never judge a book by its cover or, ahem, texture. It is the flavor that really matters! (not really a motto you should necessarily live by.)


 The moment of truth! Please pardon the large greasy forehead, it is rather humid, or perhaps I was breaking a sweat about eating frog eggs. I really don't remember.

The Verdict? Well the frog eggs are actually pretty good. They are pretty tangy full of flavor. We had them over some vanilla ice cream later so the combination was quite lovely. Wish I could say as much about the papaya. It mostly tastes like vomit. Not the good kind either (if there is a good kind) It tastes like when someone else vomits and you accidentally get a whiff of the potent stomach acid that comes floating from your average amusement park garbage can.

Two more checks off the list of things I have tasted. Three if you want to count the papaya as two different things. Now we know why these fruits stay exotic unlike the delicious banana and Pineapple .

2 comments:

  1. That's exactly how I feel about papaya. Especially after cleaning up multiple papaya poops in Ecuador. And we called passion fruit "granadillas" and just slurped out the frog eggs like cavemen. :)

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  2. who knew the frog eggs would be the yummy of the two?? surprising...

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