A couple of years ago, I had this strange dream involving a piece of fruit that I had never seen or heard of before. I don’t remember eating the fruit, or anything else in the dream, but about a week ago, I found the fruit in the local grocery store. It was called a “pummelo” (I am not sure that is the correct spelling). It looked like a giant green grapefruit. So I bought one, seeing as how I had seen it in my dream. But I never got the nerve to try it, so I gave it to one of my friends who has more culinary imagination than I have.

So over the holidays, I was in the grocery store, and once again found this mystery fruit. So I bought one again, thinking that this time I would have the nerve to try it. Unfortunately I forgot about it, and it “retired” in the back of my refrigerator, so no more pummelo-eating experiment for me. But I still can’t imagine why I would be dreaming about this thing anyway, especially since I’d never heard of it before I went to the grocery store that day.

I have no idea why I am writing about a piece of fruit but it’s 4:30 am and these things tend to fall out of my head at this time of the morning.