Earlier today, there was a gentle, friendly knock upon my door. “Probably Hot Naybor Chris wanting to use Henry for sex tools,” I thought.
(*Or SEX TOOLS!)
Then there was another congenial little rap, followed by the sound of the door opening.
I was in the middle of making new serial killer Valentines*, so you can imagine where my mind went.
(*More on this later; I’m super excited about it!)
But it was just the mailman, putting a giant box between my doors. A giant box of FRUIT from my friend Andrea in California! She hooked me the fuck up. Persimmons, guava, honey tangerines, cactus pears, a giant Mexican papaya that didn’t survive the flight…plus CANDY!
You know I’m on a fucking fruit kick when I literally toss the CANDY aside in order to gain better access to the FRUIT.
Henry came home from work and I screamed, “HURRY UP AND CUT THIS FRUIT FOR MY FRUIT SALAD!” He glanced at the mound of exotic Californian fruit and growled, “Andrea!” in the vein of Pee Wee finding out Francis! stole his bike.
Look at that bitchin’ prickly pear! When I have to Wiki how to eat the fruit in my fruit salad, you know shit’s about to get cray. I should have done my research beforehand, but then I wouldn’t have found out that eating the green part of the prickly pear is a bad idea. Tasted like spicy cucumber and I openly wept a little, loud enough for my office neighbor Angie to ask me WTF was wrong. When she learned that I was just being weird with my fruit, she seemed to lose interest in my plight. I could have been seriously injured!
Then my friend Kevin from Miami (another place that probably has much better fruit than stupid Pittsburgh) told me on Facebook that he bought a sapodilla today. I Googled it and learned that it tastes like brown sugar and ROOT BEER?! WHAT!? I emailed the link to Lee, who is working late shift with me tonight, and he told me I have a full blown problem.
I put in a call to my fruit purveyor and she’s putting her feelers out for sapodilla. She said she might even have a cherimoya hookup!
What if I became a fruit blogger?
[See also: This Post.]
A fruit blogger would be cool. I am going to Texas next weekend. I will see what kind of obscure fruit I can find .
OMG please! I would be so grateful!
You’ll have to learn all kinds of pretentious sounding phrases to describe the fruit!
Haha, what if I did Pitchfork-esque reviews of produce?
This has nothing to do with fruit, but I had to share it with you:
http://pittsburghisbeautiful.com/post/40017963964
Henry swears we’ve seen it, but I know I have never seen it there! Next time I go, I’m going to be looking for it. Thanks for sharing!
Andrea is pretty much the coolest friend ever. I can vouch for California having the raddest selection of fruit, and even more rad is the fact that they sell it from roadside stands. I love California. I’m afraid of prickly pear though. Someone else would have to cut it up for me, and I can guarantee the husband would not be on board.