Pirated Fruit

My mum was just telling me about the lovely honey melons that we had 2 weeks ago and how expensive they were. When the other mao cow liked it so much that she finished half of it, my mum told my dad to go get some more. These were rare honey melons from spain that somehow found their way to the local HDB fruit stall and were hence expensive at $8.50 per melon.

Fast forward 2 weeks later, my dad brought home 2 of the 'same' melons at the same exorbitant price but they just didn't taste the same. The seller said they were from spain as well but they just tasted so inferior. In fact, they were tasteless. After making a couple of rounds at bedok interchange and spotting similar looking melons from malaysia, my mum came to the conclusion that the HDB fruit stall seller was passing off malaysian honey melons as spain honey melons. In a sense, these were pirated fruit!

It's a fake. It's not from spain = pirated!

There are also other types of pirated fruit around. For example this lovely orange below:



It's supposed to say VALENCIA and not NALENCIA. So next time check your fruits (if it's a sticker problem) or don't buy too many melons at one go. We're still stuck with the tasteless one since nobody really likes to eat tasteless food.