duking it out for a piece of the pie

MEDRONHO

You don’t have to dig deep into the Asian/transatlantic treasure chest to find exotic fruit. Recently in Portugal I discovered the fruit of the strawberry tree. Not only is the name ‘strawberry tree’ confusing but so is its fruit: medronho. 

It looks funny, has a rather firm skin that looks cute and amusing at the same time. Inside the fruit is yellow and soft. As for the taste, it’s not uber sweet. It has tiny seeds inside but you don’t obviously recognize them. It struck me as pretty neutral, only the texture change from skin to interior was interesting as well as the appearance. After a few I felt pretty stuffed and couldn’t keep on eating them endlessly. However, Europeans have their own unknown exotic fruit! Good to know at least.