The fruit grow in clusters at the base of the palm, and are also known as snakefruit due to the reddish-brown scaly skin. They are about the size and shape of a ripe fig, usually round with a distinct tip, with an edible pulp; to peel, pinch the tip of the fruit and pull away. The fruit inside consists of lobes, each lobe containing a large inedible seed. The taste is usually sweet and acidic, but its apple-like texture can vary from very dry and crumbly to moist and crunchy. Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ...
Salak was found unconscious in an adjoining bedroom, her entire thigh shattered by the force of the buckshot.
Salak and her assailant were removed to Amsterdam in the Trevett and Stever ambulance, from Broadalbin, where the former succumbed to her wounds and the latter was given a good chance of recovery.
Salak was a client of the assistant district attorney's and had been in his office only last week to discuss the settlement of the estate left by her husband.
Salak knew it wouldn’t be a holiday, but says her reasons for going were obvious.
Salak is hauled off to a crumbling, urine-soaked building where, after hours of enduring pantomimed threats of rape and murder, she breaks away from her captors during a trip to the outhouse.
Salak herself won’t be pinned down, but acknowledges fiction is the focus of her creative writing studies — studies the utility of which, she adds, occasionally baffle her professional travel-writing pals.