What is a Plout?

While sitting and eating my lunch today, I decided to take a peek at the supermarket ads that had come in the paper on Wednesday (yes, today IS Saturday) and came across an ad in the Safeway flyer for Sweet Plouts for $1.99 lb. I say, what the hell is a PLOUT? The picture showed something that looked like a nectarine or an apple. My curiousity got the best of me, so I checked out the trusty Wikipedia and this is what I found:



A pluot (plü-ot) is a tradename for a fruit developed in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger. In the United States, the fruit is known by most regulatory agencies as an interspecific plum[1]. It is a complex cross hybrid of plum and apricot, being ¾ plum and ¼ apricot in parentage.

The fruit's exterior fairly closely resembles a plum's. Pluots are noted for their sweetness (due to a very high sugar content) and for their intense flavor. They are also very, very juicy. Pluots are also rich in vitamin A.

"Pluot" is a registered trademark of Zaiger's Genetics.

Who knew?

Also, there are fruits called Apriums, Peacotums, Plumcots and Grapples.

Doesn't Floyd Zaiger have anything better to do? Like, say, find a solution for World Peace?