Oct 19 2008
Not to be racist, per se…
but I truly do not understand how ‘white people’ (ok, ok, anyone know anyone who has grown up eating their grapefruit like this?! I need a survey on the demographics of this population.) eat grapefruit. And by ‘white people’ I mean anyone who cuts it crosswise and scoops out the flesh with a spoon. This is the image I have seen on TV growing up, at the breakfast buffet in hotels, etc…
I grew up in a grapefruit loving home (well, my dad loves grapefruit but my mom just kinda screws up her face and says it’s too bitter, and my dad and I would end up eating most of it) and we would always just peel the grapefruit like an orange, separate the slices, and then peel the thick skin off the individual slices with our hands. Definitely not as refined as eating a grapefruit with a nice spoon. But at least it doesn’t squirt you in the eye, leave lots of mashed up pulp, and a puddle of leftover juice. Plus, I think it feeds my OCD tendencies to make myself a nice pile of peeled grapefruit to savor. Yum.
Ryan says he doesn’t think he can take me out to a nice brunch anymore, since I don’t seem to want to eat my grapefruit in a civilized way. I say, if we’re busting out the big bucks for a nice brunch, I certainly won’t be wasting my precious stomach space on some grapefruit…
PS. Don’t tell me I need one of those pointy grapefruit spoons with the serrated edges. I need a set of those like I need another tokidoki bag.
You made me remember Ave. Q.
Everyone’s a little bit racist
Sometimes.
Doesn’t mean we go
Around committing hate crimes.
Look around and you will find
No one’s really color blind.
Maybe it’s a fact
We all should face
Everyone makes judgments
Based on race.
HAAR!!!
Avenue Q is hilarious. But watching Hayley try to eat a grapefruit with a spoon was quite entertaining too. She was so agitated; it was almost as if I told her to eat spaghetti with a teflon coated spoon.
Rumor has it that I’m “white,” and, uhm, hate to tell you this, but I’ve NEVER eaten a grapefruit with a spoon…and T is, well, as white as they come, and he got so excited when he bought one of those spoons, because he, too, had never had one.
In other words, keep on peeling!
I don’t need it but this is clearly more proof that I’m Irish and not white. I peel grapefruits as well Hayley so I’m with you on this. Seriously a spoon just to eat a grapefruit? What kind of idiot comes up with that? An English idiot that’s who. Damn those suppressors!
I’m clearly a FOB because I didn’t even know that A) it was common to eat grapefruits with spoons and B) that there were special spoons to do just that!
Sarah - Maybe it’s an English thing?!! Hrm…. now I am confused.
This is really funny because my family and the chinese neighbors I had growing up all at grapefruit with a spoon.
Hilarious.
Upon revisiting your blog with T, he asked me to correct my comment — he prefers to eat his grapefruit with a spoon. Maybe it’s a southwest/midwest thing?
English people just generally eat in complicated ways. They think we use our forks like a shovel which is terribly uncouth. Instead they turn it to what we would call upside down. So when they eat peas, they sometimes use the knife to mush the peas onto the fork. Very weird.
I would definitely peel a grapefruit, not use a spoon.