Kumquat
Have you ever had a kumquat? Do you know what a kumquat is? Do you think the word kumquat is fun to say out loud?
Until today my answers would have been much as your's: no, sorta, and you betcha'!
At my favorite grocery store, they sit in a small pile under the mangos and kiwis and assorted fruits that grow in the tropics and yet are still available in this high desert town 11 1/2 months of the year. They are in a small pile that never changes size or shape or goes on sale. In fact the kumquats that I bought and ate today may be the entire suppy of kumquats in Flagstaff, so infrequent is their purchase and consumption. Or so I infer from the aforementioned constancy in appearance in the produce section and the fact that it took 3 checkout ladies to identify what I was attempting to buy and locate a price code for it.
So what do they taste like? Well first, if you didn't know, they look like tiny ovuloid (a recently invented word meaning oval shaped sphere like blob) oranges, both in color and texture, if not size, being about the same size as quail eggs. So the comment about quail eggs aside, they taste like they look; tiny oranges that you eat all in one bite, rind/peel/skin and all. So first it's bitter, they it's sweet. Kind of like stereotypical old men in disney movies.
Sorry, I didn't really know what else to write about, life is less compelling in written form while not on the road. But I've been enjoying these last nearly 2 months in town, having adventures of a decidely more local nature. In about 2 weeks I'll head out again, but for a much shorter time, only going to Wyoming for a month to lead a NOLS trip in the Wind River range, then making a pass through Nebraska and Montana for a couple weeks on the way home.
Until today my answers would have been much as your's: no, sorta, and you betcha'!
At my favorite grocery store, they sit in a small pile under the mangos and kiwis and assorted fruits that grow in the tropics and yet are still available in this high desert town 11 1/2 months of the year. They are in a small pile that never changes size or shape or goes on sale. In fact the kumquats that I bought and ate today may be the entire suppy of kumquats in Flagstaff, so infrequent is their purchase and consumption. Or so I infer from the aforementioned constancy in appearance in the produce section and the fact that it took 3 checkout ladies to identify what I was attempting to buy and locate a price code for it.
So what do they taste like? Well first, if you didn't know, they look like tiny ovuloid (a recently invented word meaning oval shaped sphere like blob) oranges, both in color and texture, if not size, being about the same size as quail eggs. So the comment about quail eggs aside, they taste like they look; tiny oranges that you eat all in one bite, rind/peel/skin and all. So first it's bitter, they it's sweet. Kind of like stereotypical old men in disney movies.
Sorry, I didn't really know what else to write about, life is less compelling in written form while not on the road. But I've been enjoying these last nearly 2 months in town, having adventures of a decidely more local nature. In about 2 weeks I'll head out again, but for a much shorter time, only going to Wyoming for a month to lead a NOLS trip in the Wind River range, then making a pass through Nebraska and Montana for a couple weeks on the way home.
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