Photo of the Day: Buddha-Shaped Pears
[Photograph: Central European News]
I'd feel funny chomping into the head of one of these Buddha-shaped pears, but they're popular in their home city of Hexia, China. Farmer Gao Xianzhang spent six years perfecting his Buddha pear-making craft, resulting in this season's crop of 10,000 pears, each one grown in its own mold. The price of one of these cute pears? About $8.
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8 Comments:
It looks eerily like my ex father in law and interestingly enough he had a pear tree. Go figure!
JerzeeTomato at 7:06PM on 09/10/09
i'm going to eat the ear first...
yayfood at 8:30PM on 09/10/09
It's like a healthy gummy bear!
engill at 3:52AM on 09/11/09
I love how the one still in the mold looks like he's squinting.
If you missed this on the watermelon thread, here's a link where you can buy forms for veggies in your own garden. I've used one of the face ones on summer squash. I think a heart shaped cuke would be neat.
http://www.vegiforms.com/default.asp?Mode=products
lemonfair at 6:56AM on 09/11/09
And now YOU can have your very own Buddha Pear!... more spiritual than the potato head AND tasty too. @bwdstudio
Ry Sal at 7:31AM on 09/11/09
that is too cute to eat.
gastronomeg at 10:04AM on 09/11/09
Too cool, except the first one looks like he's got the measles or something.
I'm so going to get some of those molds the next time I have a garden.
RegrettableFoodie at 11:10AM on 09/11/09
nifty sacrilege!
spartana07 at 11:11AM on 09/11/09