Osage Oranges
I once picked up a weird looking fruit by the road side and brought it back to show to a friend. Not knowing what it was, he decided to google it and said it’s something that only squirrels eat. I took a knife out and cut a piece of it and put it in my mouth. He jumped off his seat and screamed, “Are you out of your mind?! Humans don’t eat that! It’s inedible!” I stared at him for a while while my jaw tried to chew this supposedly “inedible fruit” and then said, “I thought you said squirrels eat them?” He then answered, “Are you a squirrel?” We squabbled for a bit on the definition of inedible and he dragged me to the computer screen and pointed at the word ‘inedible’, ‘poisonous’ etc that indicates that unless you’re a squirrel, inedible-ness applies. It was an Osage Orange. Google it if you’ve never heard of it. It looks really pretty (I have seen it been used as a centerpiece at the school’s helpdesk gym) and I have to say, very inviting. It doesn’t taste so good though but at least now I know that much.
If I ever see a pointless post, this is one of it.