I’m sitting here trying to eat a fuzzy peach. Not the candy. A real, fuzzy peach. Karin can’t stand them because the fuzzy, fur-like hairs all over the surface of the fruit feel funny on her tongue and it drives her crazy, I guess. I figure, well, it’s a peach, and peaches are one of my favorite fruits. Given those simple facts, I’m willing to sacrifice a few seconds of comfort to enjoy the flavor and dripping juiciness of the peach. After the first few bites you get used to the sensation and the taste of the rest of the peach is just too hard to resist, anyhow. Then, if you are really good, you can manipulate the half-devoured fruit where — at the right angle — you can completely avoid touching the outside skin with your tongue and thus avoiding the whole fuzzy-peach phenomenon. It’s an art form, really.

I noticed that someone has invented something called a Mango Nectarine. They had a small basket of them in Save-On-Foods yesterday. All the flavor and goodness of a mango in the convenient size and packaging of a nectarine. Spiffy. I assume it’s an invented fruit because that just seems way too engineered to be something natural. I would have got some, but they were five bucks a pound and I’m not that lazy.

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