Olive Penderghast
22 August 2011 @ 10:47 am
So you know what's almost as good as an orange? A pluot. I used to think i was pronounced with a silent t, but then I realized that it's a cross between an apricot and a plum, and it's really not getting a fancy name or anything like that. There are a lot of different types, though, and the skin can range from red to purple to orange to kinda green. I've never tried the green ones. They creep me out a little. An the Dapple Dandy types look like tiny aliens. They have this like, mottled yellow skin, and pink inside, and it's generally just creepy to look at.

I like the Flavor Queens. They get gold all around when they're ripe, and they're really juicy. I'd show you guys one, but I don't have any. [Also, she does not feel like talking.]

I know who made pluots, too. I think I'm a fountain of useless information sometimes. But there's this company back home, Zaiger's Genetics, that makes novelty fruit hybrids. I gotta wonder what Zaiger's mom thought when he said hey guys, I'm gonna go cross pollinate fruit for a living.

Ten bucks says they were proud. I've bought a bunch of pluots in my time, it's not like he was unsuccessful.

No fun classification names, either. Pluots are...what was it, an interspecific complex hybrid. The interspecific just means it's a hybrid, and the fact that it's complex means it took Zaiger forever to work it out. I kind of admire this man, I have to say.

We should get some pluots. Maybe we can grow our own, if we get the right seeds. They're pretty much the sweetest fruit I've ever had. I think we could o with a little diabetic coma-inducing sweetness.

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Olive Penderghast
26 July 2011 @ 01:09 am
[Olive has an orange. She is just turning it over in her hands while laying on her stomach on her bed, feet up in the air.] So, did you guys know that oranges are actually hybrids? Yeah, they're basically what came out of some ancient cultivation of a pomelo and a mandarin. I would love to know who had that idea, or who had the idea to make mutant fruit first, you know? Who took two different pieces of fruit in the same general family, and thought, you know, I want to combine these in some mutant awesome science so I can see the result.

Pretty sure I'd have to shake their hands, because this is the best mutant hybrid I've ever had.

[Aaand she's digging her thumb nail into it to start peeling it, tossing the rind over the side of the bed where...there is presumably a trash can.]

They also used them during the bubonic plague, I think, it was kind of cool. They took whole cloves and shoved them into an unpeeled orange, like all the way around. Early potpourri. It actually smells totally awesome.

Has anyone ever had wassail? It's this hot drink that was supposedly like mulled wine or cider or ale, but now it's like orange juice and a lot of other stuff, like cinnamon and nutmeg and...cardamon? Maybe Cardamon.

[And she has a slice sparated, now, and is holding it up for the camera.]

That, ladies and gentleman of the Barge of the Not-Quite-Damned, is how you peel an orange. Which, coincidentally, is classified as a type of berry. Which I still find kind of weird. It's a hesperidium. Go ahead, say it with me. Hesperidium.

[Om nom orange.]

So I propose someone decorates oranges with cloves and helps me hang them all over the barge.

That, or someone play pool with me.
 
 
 
 
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