Thursday, August 20, 2009

We're going green.

I just bought a hybrid...

...fruit, that is.

I discovered this cross between a plum and an apricot.

A pluot.








And it's delicious and nutritious.
And our offspring can't get enough.
And they're currently on sale at our local market.
On my list:
  • a full bag of pluots
  • 3 gallons of skim milk
  • 1 gallon of Vitamin D milk
  • 1 gallon of 1% milk

{Not that milk and pluots accompany each other well, but I cringe to have a shortage of milk in our fridge--and our 2nd fridge--but that is another story.}

I even have a marketing slogan for the hybrid:

You-ot to try a pluot.
Post-edit: I've just learned that this delicious, mixed-up fruit goes by many names--Pluots, Plucots and Apriums. So, I guess Shakespeare still knows his metaphors, and "A {fruit} by any other name would {taste} as sweet." It's good, whatever you call it.

2 comments:

Carrie said...

We love Plucots:) Apriums are good too! Our friends have both kinds of trees and share! It's awesome. Your slogan for Plucots is great!

The Tanners said...

The pluots are a favorite with us, we really miss the place in Fresno that makes pluot sorbet, one of our best place to stop while we lived there. There is a certain kind that is best, haven't found them since we moved. It is more purple, so sweet.