The Battle of Pears
Posted April 16 2008 5:04PM by Michael
While at Walmart yesterday, I decided to procure some fresh fruit (possibly, and quite likely, my last fresh fruit run before I graduate). I then decided to acquire some pears. That is where our story begins.
Now normally, in the small rural town of Aurora, my mom usually seems to purchase bosc pears. Since I don't like to deviate from what has already been declared as good, I made a bee-line to them. However, something else caught my fathers eye: an asian pear.
Now this was no ordinary piece of fruit. It was shaped simalarly to an orange, instead of the usual pear-like shape I am used to. However, that was not the most striking feature of this fruit...it had it's own styrofoam-mesh covering. Had I not been in shock at the time, I would have taken a picture of all 100 (give or take) asian pears in uniform. Sadly, it didn't even dawn on me to blog about this until after I had already devoured the asian pear.
I decided to compare the two types of pear, for future reference. While the bosc pear remained delicious, the asian pear set new standards for what a pear should taste like. It was much juicier (waterier?), and had the taste of a dessert. In fact, they remind me of another delicious food of my past, lychee. I may have been biased while eating it, wanting to believe that any fruit that came in a uniform must be more delicious, but I will continue to believe myself.
On the right I have photographed a rogue bosc pear masquarading as an asian pear.