We didn't have the nerve to swill any vinegar directly, though we did try a bit of salad dressing, which of course tasted sweeter. Salt-and-vinegar chips = I dunno, sweet potato chips? Strawberry and kiwi = fruit on a fruit tart.
Carrots = sweeter than the crazy-sweet variety I'd bought in the supermarket in Nairobi 10 years back. Lime = limeade or the sweet lime water they give you in India when you're dehydrated. So it went with all the items on the platter. There was still a tang to it, I didn't have a sense that the flavors were missing or masked, just that everything was sweeter. I reached for the plate of lemons and took a nice big slice, bit right in and sucked the pulp like I was a youth soccer player with his orange segment at halftime. We made him guess what was in the package before he opened it: He was suitably intrigued, particularly when we arrived on his doorstep with a grocery sack of lemons, limes, kiwis, grapefruit, strawberries, baby carrots, and a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips.
When we realized that we could pay Nate a visit on his birthday, I placed an order for the tablets and told Nate that we'd be arriving with some accouterments to go along with the package he'd be receiving. At $14.99 for a 20-serving box, I figured it was worth a try. Recently, though, I discovered that one of our favorite retailers of wondrous things, ThinkGeek, sells Miracle Berry Fruit Tablets. But for a while Miracle Fruit Man was sold out (thanks in part to the New York Times coverage) and even in stock the berries will cost you around two bucks each (though you can get them in bulk, which brings the price down closer to a dollar). was from some specialty food stores or some guy from Florida. But of course the only place you could get these here in the U.S. The article was about people in New York having these bizarre taste parties, where you'd pop a berry into your mouth, swirl it around for a while and spit it out, and then eat lemons, drink Tabasco sauce, and any other odd things you could think of.Įver since then, we've been dying to try it for ourselves. A couple years ago, a good friend of mine (let's call him Nate) came across an article in the New York Times (which he forwarded to oodles of friends) about miracle fruits, a small berry from West Africa that temporarily rewires your taste buds so that sour things taste sweet.
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