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Weird Times in the Grocery Store

Weird things in the store today. I live in a small town in Montana. You don't often see weird produce in our local grocery store. So today when I saw rambutan and jackfruit sitting beside the cabbage and cauliflower, well, I did a double take.

Rambutran look like strawberries with spike hairdos. They taste like lychee nuts. Weird but fun. They gave the cashier fits as she tried to price them.

The jackfruit was huge - about 30 #,. It looked like an alien agg. It supposedly tastes good. And as I read about it, you can use it as a meat substitute. Weird. I was walking, and couldn't justify taking that bad boy home. Plus it cost $1.79 a # so I couldn't justify spending a full week's budget on groceries on an alien egg.

Weird times.