I Heart Pluots

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food: pluot

tasting notes

Mmmm… pluots. Even the name is fun (plü-ot). It makes it sound like a weird celestial formation or a hip foreign car. Way cooler than a peacotum, which sounds dirty, or a grapple.

I discovered this meld between a plum and an apricot at my local grocery store on a weekly fruit run. I forgot about this weird genetically engineered fruit until I pulled it out of my lunch bag for a mid-morning snack. First, I was awed by the perfect heart shape and candy red color. It was like a bright red apple, only soft and shaped like a heart, so really nothing like an apple. It was the perfect weight to hold in the palm of your hand and the skin was so smooth and rubbery that it almost felt like a toy. I really didn’t want to eat it, I was finding myself so infatuated with my pluot.

Taste was a little sour under the skin but sweet in the fleshy center. I think my pluot needed to ripen a bit, but the soft dense texture of the orange flesh was fantastic. So maybe it is a little weird to go on about a fruit in this way, but it really brightened my day. So yeah for genetic engineering. It’s apparently organic or something so even the hippies can proclaim “I Heart Pluots”.

suggested pairings

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• Fun pluot pictures
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