What's My Fruit? - Episode 7

[davidn]

I keep on thinking that I'm going to run out of interesting things to get from Russo's, but they seem to rearrange them all and invent a few more every time we have the chance to go there. This one looks like an unripe overinflated orange, or possibly some sort of alien breast depending on your frame of mind - to me it seems to have chameleon-like properties, as it's one of the range of colours between green and orange that are indefinable to me and it blends in perfectly with the floor in this photograph, but I don't think that this will be a problem for anybody else.

This one is a bit more normal than the ones on previous adventures - it was labelled "Pomello" in the basket, but is actually spelled as pomelo, as modelled by this cat here.

As you might guess from just looking at it, it's a very large citrus fruit. The flesh inside is dark pink like a grapefruit, though it's several sizes larger - though having said that, despite its large diameter, it has the skin of a rhinoceros and is considerably smaller on the inside. Its seeds are mostly concentrated right in the middle where the segments meet, so in theory you can scoop them all out at once and eat it in rings like a pineapple.

Its taste is probably most similar to a grapefruit as well, but it doesn't have the bitterness to it, which makes it feel a bit more like an orange instead. The slight extra sweetness is welcome, although its sheer size means that it's unsuitable to use as decoration for your girly drinks.

Comments

[kibet.livejournal.com]

Yay for the Pomelo. This is the fruit I am always harking on about on my journal. I don't cut it like that. I slice off the top, score the skin and rip the peel off. I then pull apart in the middle and take the skin off each segment to get to the fruit. These don't tend to be sticky.

A grapefruit is a hybrid coming from a cross between the Pomelo and the orange. Also, the pomelos I get are the grey colour of the grapefruits over here as opposed to the pink variety. It is also the largest fruit in the citrus family and I love the smell of the skin.