Posts Tagged ‘plums’

Grenade Plums and Emerald Plums in Korean

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Is there a difference between grenade plums and emerald plums? Too lazy to google it. You can click on the pictures to enlarge and take a closer look.

Grenade Plums What’s curious though is that at HanKook Market they label the grenade plums as 파인아플자두 (“pineapple” plums). They transliterated the English word pineapple! Again, too lazy to research this now.

Emerald Plums Right next to the grenades were the emerald plums, which sounds almost the same in Korean: 에머랄드자두 (eh-mo-ral-duh jadoo). Jadoo is the Korean for ‘plum’. Do you see the plastic green lemons right above them?

Anyway, fruit is a real deal at HK Supermarket. Both these plums are just 99 cents a pound. Produce of USA.

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.