Grapefruit

This morning for breakfast I had some grapefruit. I never really liked grapefruits because I always thought they were too sour. Food Network said that if you can peel the entire grapefruit and eat the wedges like an orange it would not be as bitter. I had never done this before; I had only eaten grapefruits the way they are served in the dining hall. So I set my self this morning to peel the entire membrane off the grapefruit and eat it. This was a daunting task for me, being a nail biter, so I had a lot of difficulty digging into the white skin (this is after the outer peel came off). After a decent amount of work, I had pried off enough of the outside and was able to split the grapefruit into two halfs. This was the pink-est grapefruit I had ever seen! It was a bright, guava-like pink. It was so pretty and fresh and it smelled so delicious! Staring at the two halves, I then attempted to rip apart the individual wedges; like an orange. This was hard. For the record, grapefruit wedges do not hold together as easily as orange wedges. This is because they begin to tear between the little pods of grapefruit juice within the wedge.

I had in front of me a heap of destroyed grapefruit. There was juice and grapefruit bits and pieces of everything surrounding the area I was working in. Well, if all tastes the same, right? So I picked up and ate a mangled grapefruit wedge and it was so good! There was no bitterness, it was sweet and citrusy and delicious in every aspect possible. Maybe it was not the most attractive thing in the world but it tasted good.

Now, I do have a little bit of a problem. Every other grapefruit I eat will have to be compared to this one and let me tell you no other grapefruit in the world was as good.