Emily’s been wanting to eat a lot of fruit lately and I commend her in that. The last thing we need is someone in this house getting scurvy! We’ve currently got two big bags of apples and oranges. But the noteworthy fruit in the basket is the crazy one we snagged tonight called a pummelo. There’s a reason this thing’s taxonomial name is citrus maxima; it’s the largest citrus fruit. And just for a little trivia fun, guess which nation is the most pummelolicious (i.e., produces the most pummelos)? Mexico? Singapore? China? Nope. Fail. USA! But whatever.
So we get this pummelo home and this may actually be proleptic of the baby we’re expecting, but once we got the gigantic fruit home, we didn’t have a clue what to do with it. To whom do we turn? Our mothers? Too distant. Our neighbors? Too recluse. Our Father in heaven? Too well-prepared for a bit of comedy with us and the fruit. YouTube? YouTube. Search query: “how to peel a pummelo.” As expected a video by the same name appeared. I wasn’t too encouraged after noticing one user comment that it took her 40, read forty, minutes to peel one of these babies, I mean fruitus maximus. Retarded user notwithstanding (retarded in the technical sense of “to be slowed down” of course), the video played 5 minutes and 5 minutes later I was attempting the feat on my own, in the kitchen, with Emily camera in hand. Though we can’t share the actual fruit with you, we can share the fruit of our photojournalism.
Photummelo
Was it good?
Now to the question I’m sure everyone’s wondering, Was the pummelo good? Good may be an understatement. Yeh, I’m thinking now that “good” is most definitely an under-statement. An overstatement would be “exquisite.” Well, no, the pummelo really was exquisite. Anyways, this little round tripartite citrus maxima was most definitely worth the 60 seconds it took me to peel it. The taste resembles grapefuit but sweeter and sassier.
The Pummelolicious Verdict
Go buy one.
Baby Pummelo
You’ll notice baby pummelo sporting a brand-new designer onesie (baby-grow) imported directly from the UK courtesy of Aunty Sal. Thanks, Sal!
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