What's for Breakfast?

Good gracious, not another post about food!

Yep.

I was just wondering if anyone wants to play a game called "What's Natalya Eating for Breakfast!?" If you say it in a really loud, excited, game-show-host voice, it actually sounds like a pretty cool game. Just sayin'.

I often walk into the office to find random food sitting on my desk, and more often than not, I honestly don't know what it is, who it's from, or - embarrassingly enough - how to eat it. So it wasn't such a new occasion to find random fruit sitting on my desk, and I hardly noticed that requisite feeling of embarrassment and stupidity when I realized that I'd have to either ask someone how to eat it, or attempt to figure it out on my own.



Well actually, I can't really ask anyone here. I mean, I can, but I won't because it's been too long since I got them. And I already brought them up to my room, so I can't bring them back down to the school after three or four days and say "by the way, what is this? and how do I eat it?" That's just awkward. And while awkward moments define my life, I like to avoid them whenever possible.

So, what do you think they are?



At first I thought they were pears, but they aren't the right texture to be pears, and they don't smell like pears, and are pears supposed to be that bumpy? If so, these pears are bumpy pears. But I'm fairly certain they aren't pears. Is it even pear season? (I wonder how many times I can fit the word "pears" into this "pear"agraph...)

I'm really not sure how I should eat this fruit (I am about 98% certain they are, in fact, fruit), should I just bite into it? I suppose I don't have much of a choice, I don't have any utensils. Except for chopsticks - and there actually is a limit to what one can eat with chopsticks.

Can I eat the skin? It could be like a banana, maybe I'm supposed to find some way to peel the skin off.

Maybe this is some weird, funky fruit where you're only supposed to eat the very middle, like just the seeds or something.

Or maybe you're not actually supposed to swallow it. It could be like eating raw bamboo, where you just chew out the juice and the flavour and then spit it all back out.

Seriously, do you see what I have to go through!?