Monster deliciosa

It has a name: Monster.  It has a taste: tropical Starbursts package.  It has an aftertaste: the chalkiness of a tropical Starbursts package.  And it has a power: self-shedding.

It's true.  Nature can create powerful and unique flavors on its own.  Chemistry and food-infusions be damned; ice cream parlors, coffee shops, and bakeries cannot even begin to compare themselves to the flavorful impact Monster fruit delivers.  It is a tropical fruit whose home is originally hanging from a Central American leafy green plant, but currently the Monster fruit is making its way into the homes and hearts of foodivores everywhere. 

The fruit has a delectable banana and pineapple dominant taste with the sweetness, and texture, of a very ripe banana at the beginning and the more tart pineapple flavor at the end.  It looks like an ear of white, or silver queen, corn and detaches easily from the stalk.  Each bite delivers sweet, silky Monster juice.  It does have a slight chalky aftertaste but foodivores have started using the fruit in smoothies, cupcakes, even pizzas, but eventually rum drinks.  Rrrrr-yuuummm.

But why do they call it Monster fruit?  Maybe for its combination of kiwi, banana, pineapple, passion fruit, and star fruit taste.  Or maybe even for its supernatural power....of peeling itself.  I came across the fruit at the co-op and was told to let it sit for a few days and that spontaneously the fruit- by ITSELF- would peel.  So naturally, I had to buy it.

Curiously, after a couple of days it had not self-stripped and I was frustrated.  Did I buy the only untalented Monster?  Maybe that was just the cynical side of me coming out (it was) but I was too anxious, so on my way to work one morning I flicked one, tiny, tiny pentagonal scale off its shield with my fingernail. And!....

Nothing. but my utter disappointment.  I don't want to say that I was expecting it to relinquish every scale to gravity right then.....but I was.

However, when I returned home that evening it was success!!!!! The entire armor-like clothing the Monster had once possessed was littered around my kitchen counter.  A mess to be happy about.