If you have been searching for toad warts to add to your witch’s brew, then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE
Knobby, warty, bumpy thick green skin with bright green flesh
AROMA
As I cut it, the powerful, floral lime scent just attacked me and the entire room. Completely intoxicating!
TEXTURE
Firm and almost [...]
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Tags:Citrus·kaffir·kieffer·Lime·winter
If you’ve been dreaming of a fancy eatable claw to finish off your Freddy Krueger/Hannibal Lecter combo costume, then this is the fruit for you!
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This fruit wins high marks just for the creep factor – long, bumpy yellow monster fingers. Green at first, then ripens to a nice lemony yellow – white pith [...]
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Tags:buddha's hand·Citron·Citrus·fall·fingers·halloween
If you have ever considered making your own wine to impress your foodie friends when they pop over with fresh baked sourdough bread and they are babbling on about the starter they got from their great aunt bessie who got it from her sister‘s mother, then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE
Deep purple [...]
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Tags:black·caragnan·fall·Grape
If you are the kind of person who peels grapes and tells kids they are eyeballs right before you eat them, then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE
Kind of ugly mottled brown on the outside, gorgeous heart shape with gory looking blood red flesh and juice
AROMA
Very faint grassy fragrance
TEXTURE
Perfectly [...]
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Tags:elephant heart·fall·halloween·heart·Plum·stone fruit·summer
If you find yourself asking the mirror on the wall who’s the fairest of them all, then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE
Looks like a perfect little bright red cherry, light brown flesh
AROMA
Sweet and spicy like cinnamon
TEXTURE
Somehow both firm and mushy
TASTE
Quite sour, with some bitterness
OVERALL
This [...]
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Tags:Crab Apple·fall·halloween·mandarin
If you like jumbotrons, monster trucks and supersizing your meal deal, then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE
This pear is humongous. It would take three grown men to eat it in a sitting. Just ridiculous for a pear. Yellowish green skin and brown speckling with white flesh.
AROMA
None
TEXTURE
Crunchy, [...]
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Tags:Asian Pear·fall·japanese pear
If you wear makeup that is applied with a putty knife and I can see the orange line between your face and your neck, then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE
Deep purple skin on a rather large grape. Surely this size is overcompensating for something. It’s practically an inch long.
AROMA
None
TEXTURE [...]
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Tags:autumn royal·fall·Grape
If you fight over getting to be Miss Scarlet on mystery dinner night (and I don’t mean mystery meat night – I can’t imagine why you are here if you are the kind of person that has a mystery meat night) then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE
Bright red skin with white flesh
AROMA [...]
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Tags:fall·Pear·red·starkrimson·winter
If you are kind of quirky, your hippy parents gave you a name like Pegasus and you regularly drink vegetable smoothies, then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE
Brown and green speckled pellet with pale green flesh
AROMA
Fresh grass, very subtle
TEXTURE
Really hard and quite dry
TASTE
The faintest apple flavor
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Tags:chinese date·fall·Jujube·red date·summer
If you go to the cheese section and politely sample the cheddar while swooning over the stinky Taleggio and Epoisses, then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE
Waxy looking sunny, yellow globe with tangerine orange flesh
AROMA
Sweet and tangy with a strong perfumy smell that seems slightly fermented
TEXTURE
Soft and creamy with [...]
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Tags:brazilian·fall·Guava·tropical