Cherimoya anyone?

A few weeks ago at the farmers market we discovered a strange fruit. They had a sample of it and we tried it. Stephen loves it! It’s his new favorite fruit. He says it tastes like candy. Apparently Mark Twain agrees because he is known to have said that cherimoya “is the most delicious fruit known to man.” I on the other hand am not so sure about it. It’s one of those things that no matter how much I try it I just can’t seem to categorize it into “good” or “bad”, just “different”. So what is a cherimoya?

Here is the outside.



Here is the inside.



Let’s take a closer look. The texture is similar to that of a mango.



Stephen enjoying this most heavenly of fruits.





I must admit. This scene was a bit of a set up. This particular cherimoya was unfortunately sour, and Stephen hates sour food! So I told him to pretend like he was enjoying it for the pictures but this was his real face after tasting it.