The Ugly Fruit, The Ugly Veggie

As a gardener, one learns the hate for weeds faster than the love for their ugly fruits and vegetables. A farmer naturally dislikes weeds; they sap up all water and nutrients from the farm, scramble and choke ‘good’ plants. Worse still, they run down all his time and energy invested on the farm. The farmer knows the future of his venture is secure when his garden blossoms and brings forth fruit.   Like a ritual, he wakes  early everyday and walks round his farm to ‘ visit’ the fruits, whistling happy tunes and watch them grow into maturity. Everybody likes to see the yields of their labour double, dazzle. Fruits bring forth joy and some sense of security.

Then harvesting beckons. The farmer summons up his farmhands and heads to the farm to glean his fruits and his vegetables. Fruits of all colours and tastes flood our markets. Vegetables drape the grocer’s shelves – camp green – the colour of life. The farmer is happy for the sales from his produce have been quite impressive. 

It is a happy season, judging from the twitter of birds as they bore into a healthy and ripened pawpaw.

The supermarket and groceries are decked with fresh and good looking fruits and vegetables drawing up more customers to purchase. All are symmetrical. Succulent.  Synthetic almost. But where do ‘ugly’ fruits and vegetables go? Who eats it? Who buys the twin-limbed bananas, the wriggled potato or the spotty tomato head? Who cuts up the square cabbage into a salad? Where does this food go to? Probably the farmer was left with the not-so-good-looking fruits in his farm or they were bundled together into a garbage truck for disposal at dumpsite, to rot.

As human beings we tend to be very choosy and discriminatory and at any cost we would buy any appealing and good looking food – on the extreme get angry or snob the stall that displays ‘ugly’ food for sale. Half the world over is famished and the other half wastes food on premise.

Bring all the ‘ugly’ fruits and the ‘ugly’ veggies all ye and I will squash and blend them into healthy juices. Dressings and salads. 

Who hates food based on their looks? 
No one does that.




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