This morning I decided to sample one of the cute little apricots sitting on my friend Kathy's counter in San Francisco, only to realize that I've never actually eaten an apricot before. I
know. I'm not sure how this happened. All I can think is that I don't much care for peaches and plums, so I must have avoided apricots by extension, as if it were just another version. But they're not. At the risk of stating the obvious, apricots are a completely different fruit unto themselves.
I'm still shocked at my omission. It'd be like not visiting China because you didn't like Japan or Korea.
So here are the finalists in the Little Mr. and Little Miss Apricot contest at the Patterson Apricot Festival in Patterson, California, "Apricot Capitol of the World."
Really.
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