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Today was fruit day in systematics. Which, of course, is all fine and dandy, especially when the end of the class involves getting to eat some of said fruit. Yum. So I got the opportunity today to try several types of fruits that I don't think I'd have had the chance to try otherwise, including getting to indulge in some old favorites, including strawberries, pineapple, and tomatoes(Fun fact of the day: Did you know tomatoes are technically classified as a berry?). Of course I enjoyed the tomatoes and pineapple(mm, fresh pineapple) and strawberries and peanuts and things, and I was kinda looking forward to trying some of the odd fruits. Give me a chance to try something new and different, I thought.

Well, the problem with that is that there's the possibility that you'll try something that you don't like. I should have known that coming in. "But," I thought, "I've never met a fruit I didn't like." Boy, was I wrong.

Guava: I don't think I should give up on guava quite yet. Apparently the one we got wasn't quite ripe. But on the other hand, the little unchewable seeds that I had to swallow straight were a bit disconcerting.

Fig: Truth be told, I've actually had fresh figs before. Once, for a Christmas present, one of the doctors my mum works for gave us a gift box of figs covered in thick layers of possitiviely unftastic chocolate, and I loved those. But I don't think that really counts, because chocolate makes anything taste awesome. But on the case of straight figs, I don't think I'll give up on those either. I think they still have potential.

Custardapple, or something: Um...the look of it bothered me. And the taste wasn't much better. I'm not quite sure *what* it tasted like, but the texture and the taste itself kinda bothered me. I doubt I'll be trying them again.

Avocado: I've never had straight avocado before. It actually wasn't too bad, and I liked the aftertaste, but I was still kinda reeling from the custardapple, so I don't know if I got the full taste of it or not.

Lychee: EW. EW EW EW EW EW. The texture of it(gelatinous and non-fruit-like) didn't bother me so much, which was supposedly where most people didn't like it. It was the smell. Oh gods the smell. It smelled of formaldehyde and preserved animals, which gave me flashbacks to zoology dissection lab. I mean, the zoology lab itself I didn't mind, but I never ever equated it to food, so therefore in the Ru-brain, something that smells like preserved animals != good to eat. I gave it a courtesy nibble, gagged, and promptly threw it away.

So needless to say, I won't be trying lychee fruit again anytime soon.

Comments

[peppermintberry.livejournal.com]

Hm! I may have to try that avocado+rye+salt combination. It sounds yummy. ^_^

Supposedly the figs the botany tech got came right off of her neighbor's tree that morning. I think maybe part of my problem was that I wasn't 100% sure how to eat a fig. I figured you just ripped into it and that was the end of it, but do you need to take off the skin? Is there a skin that requires taking off? Is there any part of the fig that you're not supposed to eat? Oh well, I'll figure it out eventually.

[liich.livejournal.com]

according to the italian men that bring figs over here from italy...you can eat the skin if you want, but you don't have to. it's edible and it tastes okay, but i prefer taking it off. it makes biting into the squishy insides a little difficult. it's good either way. ^_^