We had a miracle fruit party the weekend after my birthday, about 6 weeks ago. It would have been a week earlier, but Curtis, the miracle fruit man, failed to mail my order. Oops.

But the fruit arrived and away we went. I ordered 30 pieces of fruit from him, the minimum allowed. The total, with shipping came to about 80 bucks. We rounded up some friends, asked everyone to bring some food and 10 bucks and we were off for about 3 of fun.

It was amazing the spread we ended up with, I'm sorry we didn't take a photo of the food. All sorts of sweets, sour candies, fruits and some alcohol. You can see a little of it below, on Kurt's plate.

There were plenty of surprises with how things tasted, as evidenced by Carter:

In terms of good/bad choices, good was:

limes
lemons
sour candy

And bad was:

tequila
beer
oranges

Not the list we expected — tequila was like drinking dishwater. The beer wasn't much better. The orange had all flavor sucked from it. But: the good bits were amazing — we all ate so many slices of lemons and limes that my taste buds were burned and I had a stomach ache.

Here is Rachael having some tequlia:

Overall, we went through about 10 or 12 berries, froze the rest in ice to use at a later date and called the whole experiment a roaring success. I highly recommend trying this — it's something you never consider — how your sense of taste is tied to what you see going into your mouth (which is the same issue with the bacon vodka). I've been very into messing with this logic recently a bit and have really enjoyed realizing there must be a separation between what you know you are eating and what your brain registers as taste.

For 80 bucks, with some friends to offset the cost, I can't recommend the experience enough.