Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Was ist das? (What is that?)

My little one told me this is quite the popular fruit in the cafeteria at school...

What the heck is it? I thought it looked like a tomatillo. So we bought them to try.
We looked it up and tomatillo is in the physalis family...this is most likely known as a "Cape Gooseberry". It is pleasantly tart.

3 comments:

mathmom said...

We have those here in Vermont too :)

C N Heidelberg said...

It took us forever to figure out what those things were! :D I never noticed them in the US but they seem to come standard on fruity cocktails here.

Beth said...

I thought they had to be cooked!