Yes, we've been playing Fruit Roulette again. This week's choice was a starfruit.
I don't like star fruit.
Ok, so it looks awesome, and when you slice it across the middle it's really pretty (white flesh surrounded by thin green skin), but it doesn't taste good!
The shop said it tasted like papaya and orange and grapefruit, all in one. Well, it doesn't. Firstly, you can eat the skin, which is like really fine rubber. The fleshy part has a texture of under-ripe melon, with a strange lumpiness that reminded me a little of citrus fruit, but not as juicy. It's quite hard too, and it tastes like bitter grass. It just smells like a plant... like 'green', you know?
Not enjoyable at all, but at least we now know what star fruit tastes like.
Papaya still wins. Mmmm.
I've learned that life doesn't need to be flamboyant or extravagant to be exciting and enjoyable. Adventure comes in all shapes and sizes, most of them legal. If you're having a boring day, or a dull week, do something different, something small that you haven't done before. So try some food you haven't before, or do something different with your hair or clothes, or wear a dress if you haven't in a long time, or jump in a puddle, or buy something small for someone else. It'll make you smile.Today, I tasted papaya fir the first time ever. It was a mostly insignificant thing to do, but it was new and different. Fruit Roulette might become a regular thing!
-Edit: 21/4/10 - I made this chart...
