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Donut White Peaches in Korean

Monday, August 10th, 2009

More fruit with cute names at HK Super. After the dinosaur egg plums, I encountered these donut white peaches, which are not that uncommon a sight in Southern California. They’re simply called doughnut peaches or white peaches. On the sign, the name was translated literally into Korean as 도넛백도복숭아 (donut white peach).

Donut White Peaches

99 cents per pound. Product of USA

You can see them below the mangoes and pistachios in the picture above. (Click to enlarge.)

Don’t ask me why the grocery clerks arrange the produce like that — the display works aesthetically. Maybe there’s a tradition of serving certain nuts with certain fruit that I’m not aware of. Give me a snack bar.

Dinosaur Egg Plums at HK Super

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Found the name so cute in Korean: 공룡알자두 — it’s a literal translation of “dinosaur egg plums.”

Large Dinosaur Egg Plums at HK Super

Been reading about the fruit online and it turns out these dinosaur egg plums are actually not plums, but pluots, which are an “interspecific” plum, meaning it’s a complex hybrid of a plum and another fruit, which in this case is the apricot.

Plum + apricot = pluot = dinosaur egg plums = 공룡알자두

Furthermore, “pluot” is a registered trademark, and “Dinosaur egg” is a trademarked name for the Dapple Dandy variety. Whew!

On sale at HanKook Supermarket — 99 cents for two pounds! Now why didn’t I pick up some?

I was too excited about taking pictures. Unlike at American-run stores, the Korean supermarkets don’t seem to mind my taking photos. I do buy most of groceries at HK Super, so they must recognize me by now.