Do you want to hear something funny?
GRAPEFRUIT.
Grapefruit is funny. Do you want to know why I think that grapefruit is funny? If not, you should probably stop reading right now.
- A grapefruit looks and tastes nothing like grapes but we call it grapefruit.
- Grapes have been around since 6500 B.C. Grapefruit has only been around since the 18th century. Surely someone could come up with a new name for this new fruit.
- Mr. Guy and The Lady say that fermented grape juice, something they call whine, or maybe it is wine if we are still not using H’s), is tasty, fermented grapefruit juice not so much.
- I can eat the flesh and skin of grapes. I only eat the flesh of grapefruit. Its skin is only good if it is grated and sprinkled in little amounts in or on another kind of food.
You see, there are lots of differences between grapes and grapefruit. But, you know what? They have more things in common than you might think…kind of like people of different Skins and colors and sizes.
- Both grapes and grapefruit are actually berries. We could call them grapeberries and grapefruitberries. That’s funny!
- Both grow in clumps. That is actually how grapefruit got its name. Someone thought these clumps of round fruit growing a the tree looked like growing grapes. I’m not sure if that is funny or scary.
- Both grapes and grapefruit are healthy foods. This is good!
I like both grapes and grapefruit, but today grapefruit is my favorite because its juice is coral colored!