Let's talk about grapefruit. Grapefruit is awful.
A couple of weeks ago, a traveling fruit salesman came to our front door. Yes, true story. The sucker that I am, I bought a large crate of fruit. If you want to know more about the traveling fruit salesman, ask my husband. Bill was not that thrilled with my impulse decision to buy a boatload of fruit.
He had apples, oranges, and grapefruit. I could mix them in the crate as I wished. For some reason, I thought that Bill loved grapefruit, so I included them in our crate.
I was wrong. Bill doesn't enjoy grapefruit at all. And neither do I. So we've got quite a few grapefruit that are desirable to neither of us.
There are some foods that I don't like but I can understand why they appeal to other people. However, I just don't get how people can eat grapefruit. They are so bitter.
Since I can't just sit down and eat a grapefruit, I thought tonight I'd give a grapefruit smoothie a shot. I made a smoothie with grapefruit and frozen strawberries. I added two Crystal Light packets to sweeten it a bit. It was still ridiculously bitter. So I started added Splenda. And more Splenda. And more Splenda.
I honestly think I probably added about 1/2 a cup of Splenda. And now, as I sit here trying to drink this thing, I am completely nauseated by the aftertaste.
I hate wasting food. I will choke just about anything down to avoid wasting food, but I just don't think I can do it. I think I'm going to have to pour this one down the drain. It's just terrible. And no amount of Splenda could save it.
If anyone has any ideas of any ways I can prepare grapefruit so it is tolerable, please let me know. Or, if anyone enjoys grapefruit and would like a dozen or so, tell me when you want to come by my house and pick them up.
I discovered tonight that Karl really will eat anything. He's eaten socks, t-shirts, underwear...and tonight he tried a piece of grapefruit. Yes, he seemed to like that as well.
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