Day Two Hundred and Forty-Four - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

Again with the fruits! Ummm, no - this post is not Pride related [though this is my 10th year in a row that I have had a good excuse for not attending Pride - one of these years I will though!]...it is once again related to my quest for decent-tasting fruit @ my crummy grocery store. It's like the search for the Holy Grail it is. In addition to the yummy corn that I purchased on Friday I decided to try out a new fruit - white nectarines. This was mostly to answer that ever-nagging question - do I like nectarines? Well, as it happens - yeah, kinda [which I think is a pretty standard nectarine answer - I don't think many people get passionate about them]. Query solved as I ate a white nectarine.

Photo not available due to the nectarine being excessively ripe. I feel like if I photographed it the nectarine would have dissolved. Suffice to say, a quick Google Images search will show you a nectarine or a white nectarine [I think called Summerwhite Nectarines]. The taste of the white-fleshed nectarine is supposed to be sweeter - they have been bred that way...although this fruit was more sour tasting that sweet [this is my opinion on most fruit - might just be the crummy quality or maybe my tastebuds have changed]. They are mostly shipped to Asia/the Pacific Rim as apparently the demand for very sweet fruit is very high there. Their popularity in North America is growing. They look just like any other nectarine on the outside, so be sure to look @ the label. Also...nectarines are peaches [and yes, they do make white peaches]. Really - they are. Most people think that nectarines are a hybrid of peaches and plums [due to the skin, I think]. They are not. They are simply peaches that have had the fuzzy skin gene bred out of them. As further proof of this - sometimes nectarines will grow on peach trees with all the peaches and vice versa. Freaky!

[and yes, the flesh of the nectarines is pale, but not white. that would be strange. fear not - I am still more pale than they are - even in the summer.]