This post is largely visual. There are two fruits I have discovered in Indonesia that are wildly different on the outside, but the same on the inside.
Exhibit A, Rambutan inside and outside:
Exhibit B, Longan inside and outside:
As you can see, they’re very similar. We were discussing fruits in 5B and these two fruits totally divided the room. Some kids hated longan and loved rambutans, and vice versa. I had never noticed any real difference in taste, but apparently the kids thought they were very different.
After a few rounds of one side attempting to exert fruit dominance over the other, we decided to agree to disagree. But not until after one of my kids said that he agreed with me that the fruits were the same. “They’re like twins; but in different sweaters,” he announced.
As I was getting photos for this post, I noticed this picture, and so I guess maybe they’re triplets?
Source here.