I couldn’t resist at least exploring the things.

What’s that!?

A Pluerry, I told him. Andy’s had full boxes and one half box and I bought the half box out of sheer curiosity. It’s a cross between a plum and a cherry and it’s supposed to be very sweet. I don’t know if I should try to let it ripen for a day or if the cherry part means it isn’t climacteric and we should just go for it.

A discussion from there about the weirdness of that word and how did someone make it mean it can ripen after being picked. (Wait, let me go double-check that…) Merriam-Webster’s says “The marked and sudden rise in respiratory rate of fruit just prior to full ripening.”

Did anyone else just picture cherries having an asthma attack or was that just me?

I knew I should have changed my college major to botany. I seriously considered it.

That thing looks like a mash-up of Bugs Bunny’s squirting flower, Dr. Seuss, and the old Archie McPhee catalog. (Hey look! It still exists!)