Walt Whitman was writing about President Abraham Lincoln’s face when he wrote:
“…so awful ugly it becomes beautiful”
He could have been writing about our Ugli Fruit.
Remember the entry when our Ugli was not ripe? I was waiting for the expected yellow color but couldn't resist when the not yet yellow, but carefully observed fruit, was soft and fragrant.
Success! Juicy and delicious as promised, it tasted sort of like a grapefruit but sweeter. What I did discover is that you should cut off all the pith (the white stuff between the skin and fruit). Maybe this was necessary because our fruit wasn’t fully yellow, but the segments are large and a small paring knife was all that was required to remove the final membrane holding in the juicy inner fruit.
Whitman knew that just like Lincoln’s face, once you get acquainted with something unusual there’s beauty discovered. Ugli was delicious.
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