If it looks like an apple...

...and it smells like an apple, then surely it's an apple?

!!! Wrong !!!

It's an

Asian Pear

I kid you not. Yesterday my mom brought home this crazy fruit from Fruit and Veg City. Apparently it's an Asian Pear. It looks like an albino apple, and the texture of the flesh inside is kind of like a chunky watermelon. The fruit is juicy, although has a very mild, almost bland taste.

The term Asian pear describes a large group of pear varieties having crisp, juicy fruit. When mature, the fruit are good to eat when harvested or for several months after picking if held in cold storage. The crisp texture of an Asian pear remains unchanged after picking or storage, unlike the flesh of European pears such as Bartlett or Comice. There are three types of Asian pear: round or flat fruit with green to yellow skin; round or flat fruit with bronze-colored skin and a light bronze-russet; and pear-shaped fruit with green or russet skin.

It was just so... strange.