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As I had promised prior, I am now posting a picture of the saguaro fruit. Now, as the story is told, this fruit was harvested by the Tohono O'odham Indians of the southwest. As you can see the inside of the fruit is filled with a blood-red meat consisting mostly of small black seeds. It is said, in modern times, that they make various types of jellies and jams from this fruit. The Tohono O'odham Indians of the southwest would camp out in the desert for days and harvest this fruit from the tall cactus. They would knock the pods down using a tall pole made form the ribs of the skeletons of the Saguaro Cactus.

After these cactus have produced their fruit, and as I have harvested a few of them myself, I have come to a few different variations of the results of the fruit, itself.

As it has been said before, this fruit was to taste much like that of a fig with a hint of a strawberry. Well I must say that these people out here must have lost their senses and perspective of taste. 

However, as I sit here, I must argue the point. There may be a slight hint of strawberry flavor in this fruit. But only a slight hint.
With a slight hint of sweetness.

Now, the fruit may have had its advantages in the desert, and it must have provided the natives with a variance of flavors in the vast wasteland of the desert. But I must say that it has a rather bland flavor of its own. The fruit possesses a little bit of a slimy texture, much like that of okra. The inside, fruit is reasonably sweet, but not enough to compare with any other fruit. The seeds are a little tasty from a different, nutty perspective, providing a crunchy texture. But they are too abundant in the fruit and makes it rather seedy.

After eating, through to the rind I discovered that it has somewhat of a rotten shoe odor. Making it very difficult to eat the next one. 

All in all, I must say that I was quite disappointed in the Saguaro Cactus Fruit. They have this weird pod that splits open and provides a fruit for the local birds, which also provides a great battle weaponry against the local vehicles around town, displaying them with the bright red spots that the birds leave behind. And, although I was not very impressed with the Saguaro Fruit, I did completely eat both pods that I picked. So they couldn't have been all that bad.

All in the name of science and for all of your curiosity, I have sacrificed myself for the research and indulged myself into the project, and eaten the evidence. I tasted this mysterious fruit for myself.

But I now suddenly feel a little dizzy and a little funny and need to take a nap now. Thanks fooor aaall yooor ssuppoooort.........

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