Persimmons

For those of you who knew me in high school, you'd probably know that I had an odd fascination with mangoes. Those yellow, succulent fruits (that's right - none of the red-green ones) with their easy to peel skin and sticky innards were perhaps the epitome of my existence. "Mangoes are the spice of life" was even in the yearbook for senior year. So many of you ended up believing that, well, mangoes were my favorite fruit.

That's a sham.

You see, though I love mangoes and their generic savory-ness, I have a favorite fruit that I've never really told anybody: persimmons. Yes, persimmons. These things taste God awful when they're unripe, but so darn sweet when they are. And they're orange. (For the time being, orange is my favorite color.) They've always trumped mangoes in terms of my favorite fruit, and I even ended up naming two blogs after it. (Loserish, perhaps, since the fruit has had nothing to do with my posts until now--but I'm not too good with names.)


So, hello, persimmons, and hello, my mangoes. I've been having mangoes for the past few weeks, but the other fruit is few and far between. I hope, though, that I'll manage to taste one before the end of summer.

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