Exotic Fruits Your Favourites

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Some of my favourite exotic fruits, exotic JJ not erotic.Are the Mangosteen,Passion Fruit,and Guava What are yours

Kumquats.
I just bought some. How is one supposed to eat these things? They look like the progeny of an orange and a damson, having the shape and size of the latter but all other attributes of the former. As far as I can tell they have three main flavours – sour as hell; bland semi-sweet citrus; orange peel, in that order. The first bite is an olfactory assault that makes the eyes water and the tongue contract (rather like a snail does when you poke it with a stick), then one is treated to a few moments of opal-fruit sweetness, most of which are spent spitting out half a dozen seeds, before settling into a furry-toothed orgy of pithy bitterness.

I’m normally quite amenable to the exotic tastes of faraway lands, but in this case I was sorely disappointed by what appears to be a series of severe design flaws. In the creation of what appears by all accounts to have been originally intended as a human foodstuff. Almost as though the blueprints were chucked in the Creator’s wastepaper bin but later retrieved by a mischievous underling with a Jeramie Beadle-esque sense of humour. Quite why we can’t engineer these bloody things to taste good is beyond me – I suppose the international market for pointless foods, just doesn’t have that kind of wallop in the Sinister Bio-tech industry.They remind me of them very thick skinned oranges that when you peel end up with a bit in the middle, the size of a gerbil's teste,and just as tasty.


So to hell with the Kumquat fruit,give me a nice steak and a blowtorch anyday.