Produce Freakshow

Since i have been a little behind on posting about food i've been making, here's some unusual flora eye candy.


In honor of Halloween this week, THE GREAT PUMPKIN!
175 pounds, and 87 inch circumference, this beast is sitting outside my store, to be raffled off in two days. I'd have joined the raffle, but what the hell would i do with it if i won?



next up, a dragonfruit! i guess my produce department bought two of them and opened up one to sample. and sold the other to a customer for 16$ ( this guy also wants to buy a case of starfruit. tropical fruit fetish?)
anyway, the dragonfruit is shockingly bright inside. like it is filled with florescent purple highlighter dye. it taste was surprisingly watery and not really very sweet or sour.



another case of gigantism. this is my coworker, holding a giant zucchini that we brought back from the cow farm.


that was the largest of three huge zucchinis just sitting on the ground. and farmer Don was like, "oh, do you want those? just take em." i was gonna take home one of the smaller ones, but i realized it was likely too woody to be edible, and a hassle to butcher it up.

and the anticolorful, a ghost tomato. i got this for free from work, it was a little over the hill. it's just a type of heirloom tomato, which in my experience are less acidic that conventional tomatoes.

i tried saving the seeds, there weren't too many. maybe someday i can grow some ghosties of my own.