The day of the Peach Incident I made the acquaintance of a new fruit, the pluot:
We met again yesterday at the swap meet during the prayer walk.
I was mystified.
What is this strange fruit with the ugly name? It looks like a plum, but not quite. Is it a hybrid? Between a plum and a peach, maybe? What's the origin language for the name? Did it come from Vietnam (like a lot of things I've first met at Stater Bros.)? Is it maybe a Mexican delicacy?
In this state of bewilderment I passed three days, during which time I think I exhausted the fruit-related curiosity of several persons.
Anyhow, today I figured it out. Pluot = plum + apricot. Wikipedia confirms. (So it must be true.)
And they all lived happily ever after.
(Does anybody else out there find hybridized fruit a little creepy?)
1 comment:
Not so much creepy as cool, but that is the ag background in me. Besides how else can we get hairless peaches? (If you did not know that is a cross of the nectarine and peach.)
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