A fresh barhee date, all the way from Isreal. Crisp as an apple, but tastes like mild honey with a slightly bitter skin. One of the only varieties that is good eaten semi-ripe stage before it has been sun-dried. If you can't acquire the taste for fresh dates, try a handful of the dried with a cup of strong coffee in true Saudi Arabian style. Purchased at Herb n' Spice on Wellington.
Fragrant purple passionfruit. My friend, Paradiso, used to buy bags of these for a dollar when she lived in Kenya. Her face lit up when she saw this lone ranger on my coffee table the other night. She said she and her friends used to fill up their pockets with passionfruit before a hike and as soon as the sun started to get beat down, they'd crack them open and suck out the juice.
99 cents each at at Herb n' Spice.
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