WTF Is It?!? Round 8

OK, this is by far the weirdest, messiest edible I've ever kept in my kitchen, a thing that performs a sort of vegetal strip tease over the course of a week or so, spilling greenish dragon scales all over counter top and floor. You eat the part that reveals itself,...

By Gail Shepherd

September 18, 2008

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OK, this is by far the weirdest, messiest edible I've ever kept in my kitchen, a thing that performs a sort of vegetal strip tease over the course of a week or so, spilling greenish dragon scales all over counter top and floor. You eat the part that reveals itself, day by day.

I figure it's gonna take a while for this baby to catch on as a breakfast treat, and certainly the, eh-hem, phallic associations are a bit off the charts. Anybody wanna take a stab at WTF this is?

-- Gail Shepherd

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