Fruit of the Week: Santol

Fruit of the Week

Santol

I found this fruit to be entirely surprising and delightful. It has a rather odd design: Its peel is incredibly tough, and often just using fingers (or teeth) is not enough to penetrate it. We thus use a knife, as we are humans and have the capacity to use tools. Once open there are four rather large seeds surrounded by pulpy/stringy fruit. In order to consume a santol, you simply plop one of the seeds into your gape-hole and suck on the fruit. You will not be able to suck the fruit off of the seed, which to some people might be frustrating. You will have to learn to accept that things do not always go exactly as desired, and become complacent with simply sucking the juices of the fruit. You will soon discover that this is, in fact, and entirely appropriate way to consume a fruit, and you will feel silly for being so frustrated with anything in your life at all, as things usually turn out alright in the end. 

I think that the santol tastes like an orange-banana smoothie. I like it. I think that it's perfect for when I want something sweet after dinner, but I'm still very full from dinner, and so don't actually want anymore food in my stomach.

Rachel likes the flavor but thinks that it is frustrating to eat; if you try to pull the fruit off of the seed with your teeth, you end up getting bits stuck in between your teeth.

Tam says that it's good. That's all that she has to say on the matter right now. She's doing her school work, learning how to be a teacher, and I'm distracting her with these inane questions about fruit.