So, I'm working on this hermit crab nutrition website. Like, all the time. Well, "all the time" is kind of completely wrong when I write it out like that. Let me try it again. So, I'm working on this hermit crab website in 2-3 minute stretches when someone isn't climbing in my lap, I'm not reading someone a book for the 300th time, or changing diapers, grading papers, writing lectures etc. One of the things I've been doing is adding pictures to each entry. Well hermit crabs being exotic creatures and thus eaters of tropical and exotic fruits, on my last trip to the big giant grocery store last week I decided to get some of these exotic fruits and take pictures of them myself.

So once in the store I headed over to the weirdo fruit area. You know the one I'm talking about. Right next to the coconuts and around behind the bananas. Now, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I'm all worldly and have tried all sorts of exotic (weirdo) foods. I haven't. I work hard to broaden my horizons but before this week my "horizons" didn't venture out into the weirdo fruit area of the supermarket.

I come home with a kiwano, a tamarillo, a starfruit, and 3 pluots. Well first of all the kiwano shouldn't be allowed to mingle with other fruits.

All that grocery bag drama aside it was a lot of fun checking out the strange and unusual. I didn't really like any of them except for the pluot (which isn't really exotic, just a cross between a plum and an apricot) which was delicious and very very ripe. In fact, it was so ripe I had to eat it over the sink.

So the moral of this story is you don't have to be afraid of weirdo fruit, but you don't have to like them either. I'm picky, you can be too. If anyone lectures you about broadening your horizons, kick them in the shins and run away, that's what I always do. It's worked so far!