Such a funny looking thing! It looks more like a child’s toy or an alien egg than something to eat!
The pinky-purple oval is the same size as my hands cupped together. It’s like a tiny rubber football with light green triangular tags. Quite solid and heavy.
Picking up a knife. Too flimsy, need a sharper one. Cut it right down the middle – this is a lot easier than I expected, the skin’s not so tough – into two halves. Brightly purple liquid drips out, like psychedelic blood. The flesh inside is also surprising, it looks just like canned beetroot. Same colour, same wetness, same gloss. Lots of tiny black seeds all through it.
Scooping the edible insides into a bowl. Juice tries to spray, hope it doesn’t stain the kitchen and I.
Pushing the spoon edge in to make a bite-sized piece. It puts up a token resistance but the metal smoothly moves through… like firm beetroot. The little seeds are hard and slippery.
Cool and soft, with crunch from the seeds. Pleasingly slippery on my tongue.
That’s… pretty much it. No real taste. It’s just wet and watery. Strange. But refreshing and light, would be good in summer. I’m not even minding it now in winter.
Munch. Munch. Why don’t you taste of anything when you’re so bold looking?
Such a weird, weird fruit.
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Specifics: Red-fleshed dragonfruit, bought from a random fruit store in Cabramatta
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I’ve always been so disappointed that the riotous look of the dragonfruit is so poorly matched by it’s insipidness!
It is such a beautiful looking fruit, I’ve only ever had the white fruits never the red fruits. It’s a flavour that can’t really be described and does actually take some acquiring even though it appears to taste of nothing.