Here's another unidentified greenish object, photographed just outside its native habitat in the supermarket of madness. (The material in the background is a tarpaulin cover that they put over the outdoor fruit section when it rains - the supermarket is not inflatable.)

I took this photograph several weeks ago and found when I came to write this that I no longer had a clue what it was at all, but Whitney was able to remember that it was a cherimoya. It's an odd-looking green thing, the only natural thing I know of to be heart-shaped (including hearts), with dark speckles and ambitions to be a sea creature - the outside resembles overlapping scales, but the bases of the oval shapes are just slight ridges. After eight episodes of this venture over the last couple of years, it's pleasant to find a specimen that possesses no ability to attack whatsoever.

Inside, the fruit has a cream colour, with large black seeds distributed at random throughout - they seem to grow out of veins branching off a stem running through it from the top. The flesh is very soft, like ripe banana, and needs to be eaten with a spoon - it's sweet and tastes something like a very juicy pear. It's really nice, but the seeds' size means that they get in the way a lot - perhaps it could be better enjoyed by working to remove all the inedible parts first and then getting to eat it, like some sort of fruit-lobster.