634. Tamarillo

This was one of the foods that I thought I might have trouble getting hold of, but then I was just wandering around my local supermarket one day and they were right there in front of me. Sometimes my local supermarket is awesome. Anyway, I read up quite a bit about tamarillos on the internet as I wasn’t sure of the best way to eat them. There seemed to be a lot of debate between people saying they were the best thing ever, and people saying they were awful. It seems like most of the people who said they were awful did not do their internet research before eating them and just bit straight into the skin (which is supposed to be bitter and gross). I decided to keep it simple and eat it raw, scooped out of the shell (like you would eat a kiwi) with a little bit of sugar sprinkled on the top. It was delicious. A little bit like a cross between a tomato and a papaya.

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