Adventures in a Whole New Fruit

I decided to go the grocery store to pick up a new fruit that I haven’t tried yet. Like I said in my persuasive essay I bring my own lunch and snacks to school and work every day. I bring apples bananas and oranges and other familiar things. When this assignment came up I became very eager to find something new that I haven’t tried before. The first thing I did was go to the produce section of H-E-B looking for something that I have not seen before. I came across a fruit called a plumcot. I thought this was very interesting and I asked one of the employees and he wasn’t even quite sure. After we found a manager he informed both of us how it is a cross between a plum and an apricot, and that is why it is called a plumcot. It looks to me like a plum but has the same smell of a sweet apricot. I was very eager to try it. I planned to eat it raw and unseasoned due to the fact that it was going to become a new item in my lunchbox. When I cut it up it was very juicy and a maroon color like the outside and very soft. I was surprised about the texture of the plumcot when I was eating it. I was not anticipating the Skin to be harder with an almost slippery center. It is defiantly a taste that you have to get accustom to however; I do plan on taking with me as a snack for my lunch box in the future.  I donot plan on using it in a recipe though just because there isn’t a whole lot that you can do with them that I know of other than eating them raw.