Thursday, January 31, 2008

Rebel with a juicy cause

As I bit into a shiny red apple last night, I remembered my short-loved, fruit-related rebellious stage. My parents always told me to wash my fruit before eating. After years of mindlessly obeying their command, I decided one day to stop the water-wasting cycle. For about a year, I refused to wash my apples, oranges, pears and strawberries. (I still rinsed peaches to remove the excess fuzz.) These days, I am happy to report, I thoroughly rinse all fruit.

On a related note, my grandmother used to wash her fruit with soap and water.

5 comments:

mo cheeks said...

...and once you are done washing them you sit them on the shelf to admire bc you are unable to bite into them.

:)

aaronic said...

The pesticides are 12% of the flavor.

miz cynical said...

Yum! At least you can wash of the e.coli germs.

Anonymous said...

bananas are great. eating one is like taking off a giant condom.

miz cynical said...

Taking one off? I thought that you learned how to apply them using bananas :)?