Tutti fruitti

Fruit is something I usually have to consciously commit to eat. Unlike, for example, a cookie. This is because it is nearly always bad, and that is because I live in Canada and not Orange County. Fruit here is most reliably tasty in liquid or leather form. Failing those, it can be jazzed up. Just a few minutes ago, I chopped a pear up into little pieces and plopped a few spoons of very delicious 8% mf yogourt on top. The pear was more cracker than pear it was so dry, but in disguise like that, eating it was effortless.

When I lived in Korea, it was different. Persimmons were in season at this time of year and some days, I'd eat five. In the spring, it was strawberries, and in the summer, watermelons. Some days were so hot I'd eat exclusively watermelon. Korean fruit is really nice. Canadian fruit can be too, but the window is smaller.

By the way, did you know that watermelon is THE most nutritious fruit? I heard this announced by a radio show host on the CBC (I forget who). He had always thought of watermelon as the the bubble gum or the candy floss of fruit or something like that, which made a lot more sense to me than the spinach or the broccoli of fruit, which is what it really is.

In Korea, in a bigger city than the one I lived in, there was a bar I went to a few times called Watermelon Sugar, named after the book (which I've never read). It was tiny and busy and loaded with phalluses. My friend John and his friends would take me there when I was visiting. We always had fun. I had completely forgotten about that place only that someone on the radio mentioned the book recently.