with fruit like this, you don’t have to wake the kids

I am an NPR geek. Nine times out of ten, if I’m telling you about a news story I heard, it begins this way: “I heard this story on NPR…” Actually, it might be closer to ten times out of ten these days. But I don’t just listen to NPR for news. I also listen to it for entertainment. See. Geek.
One of my favorite programs is “wait, wait… don’t tell me”. On April 4th, 2009 (yes, I can go that far back) Micheal Pollan came on the show to play Not My Job (I;m not even going to explain it to you. If you don’t know this show, or game, you are seriously missing out on life). Two of my favorite panelists,  Paula Poundstone and Mo Rocca, were also on the show. The exchange between Micheal Pollan and Paula Poundstone remains one of my favorite “wait, wait…don’t tell me” moments:

MP: “My son, when he was younger, really liked Fruit Pebbles.”

PP: “I bet he did.”

{..more story about shopping at a local grocery store from MP…}

PP: “Okay, my problem…I try to teach my kids to eat healthy foods, but you get a cantaloupe and you don’t know when it’s going to come of age. You have no idea…that period between when it’s, like, hard a s a rock to when it’s smooshy inside, is about 10 minutes. {laughter} And sometimes you gotta wake the kids in the middle of the night because the cantaloupe is ready. {more laughter}. Your kid wanted Fruity Pebbles, just so he could sleep!”

This week we received a gloriously large cantaloupe from our CSA box. A few minutes later we walked over to the farmers’ market to get a watermelon (because the one we bought on Saturday was consumed in roughly 30 minutes). When we came back, the whole house smelled deliciously sweet. The melon was clearly ready, so we cut in and feasted.