We had five HUGE GRAPEFRUITS on our tree this year. This is no. 4. Sometimes they get to be the size of a basketball. There are some dark reddish ones and light-grapefruit colored ones.My dad used to always work away at cutting little triangles out of halved grapefruits. I never liked all the work or the bitter-sweet taste. But, eating a grapefruit in Paraguay is like eating grapefruit sugar. Here people will peel them, cut a hole in the top and suck all the juice out...I decided to do it my dad's old way...cut it in half and slice out little triangles, then squeeze all the juice out.
The huge grapefruits are not juicy. You have to peel them and then pull all the pulp out of them. It tastes like little bubbles of sweet grapefruit. There is no way one person can eat one fruit all alone. It is way to big!
Ummmm! One more left this year!
6 comments:
Your Dad would share it with you if he was there! He'd even cut it in half and section it for you! That looks so good. He often talks about the huge grapefruits he saw and tasted there!
That is enormous. Imagine if it was juicy- you could get a whole quart from on fruit!
One person can't eat a whole toronja alone? That sounds like a challenge I would like to accept...
-j
Wow that is huge! I love grapefruit!
One person could eat one by himself. However, he better not eat more than that in a short time or he'll need to run find a private spot to squat. :-)
Roger!!!! Eww!
I can vouch for the sweetness of those grapefruit! I never liked them as a kid, even when Mom would cover them w/brown sugar and broil them. It took a while, but Oscar finally convinced me to taste one in San Pedro and I fell in love with them! They were soooo good! It reminded me of the scent of Bath & Body Works Pink Grapefruit soap. Haha :)
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