Reality Check by Dave Whamond for May 11, 2024

How does one eat a dragon fruit?

Oranges weren’t named for their color – because their color often wasn’t orange. Actually, use of the word ‘orange’ to describe a cross between red and yellow wasn’t recorded until three hundred years after the fruit appeared in Europe. It’s thought that oranges get their name from the Sanskrit word for fragrant – naranja. In South American countries and tropical countries near the equator, oranges stay green all year around. Since most people associate green fruit with unripe fruit, most green oranges in the United States and Europe have to be colored to be sellable. In some cases they are exposed to ethylene gas, which breaks down chlorophyll. Some are shocked with cold, or covered in wax. Some are scrubbed down with detergent and some are just dipped in dye. Anything for a sale.

Also “The Rocky Mountains”… What imaginative genius came up with that one?

So, why DON’T they call a banana a yellow?

name game…

Oh, he said “Dragon Fruit”…

… I thought he said “Dragon Far…….

Never mind!

I find dragon fruit has very little flavour.

Well orange you something!

Me: Nothing rhymes with orange.

My Wife: No it doesn’t.

The lonely biblical burning bush before humans.

I would imagine that dragon fruit has a range of tastes depending on variety and ripeness. I read it is tasteless if not fully ripe and slightly Kiwi sweet if fully ripe.

Is there a Godzilla fruit…?

( Komodo …? )

does dragon fruit give you dragon breath?

They named the colour after me. I don’t see too many “dragon fruit” coloured things, do you?

No, he is orange and his name is Navel. Is yours Dragon Breath?