Dried Things Look The Same

The bff was looking for munchies to buy as gifts and to eat along the way. She wanted umeboshi (dried ume). She told me to stay in and she would only be a quick while. I no like munchies, but I wanted to kaypoh at the astonishing range available. So we went around the dried fruits' section. I saw plenty of boxes of exciting stuff and took a peek.

"Ume!" I animatedly picked up a box. She looked at it, sighed and shook her head. "This isn't ume. It's your favorite thing." I stared at it from all corners for a really long time before I realized that it was.....fig. Dried figs. The bff had this look of utter resignation on her face. She was not going to explain what were the contents in each box laid out across the shelves. Heh.

The bff took a box from the next box. "Here, this is ume." They looked similar! Except that one's bigger than the other! She glared at me. "They don't look the same." She was most emphatic about it. She pointed out the differences in the folds and shapes of the fruits while I stood there looking quite dazed. Finally, she thrusted both boxes at me and told me to be a good girl to study the both closely while she went around grabbing other stuff.

When she came back, she eyeballed me for a bit and went off again to pay for her purchases. Hmmmmpf. They still look quite the same to me, except their sizes! Chehhh. But I can differentiate between these and dried persimmons.