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