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I always go for the ugliest, strangest-looking fruits and veggies, not only because they look fun, but because I don't want them to languish on the shelves, since most people look for perfection.

My mom grew this apple on the apple tree in the backyard: http://onewallkitchen.blogspot.com/2007/12/intermission.html

Ugly food doesn't bother me as long as it's not ugly because it's rotten or diseased. I lived with a couple of friends who had a row of lemon trees in their front yard, but they wouldn't let me pick and use them because they'd been sprayed with insecticides so often. They had the strangest mushy skin, with deep pocks. Conversely, I recently needed apples in a pinch and was seriously disturbed by the amount of wax used to coat these apples. They were so bright and shiny, and didn't feel anything like an apple.

We once had an entire box of double-yolked eggs. I learned later that it's usually a result of young hens.

The Museum of Food Anomalies is a great site for this: http://www.hanttula.com/exhibits/mofa/

no. i won't even eat a fused m&m.

my dad's lemons are hideous. They're huge, like larger than my fist and look like they have a bad case of genital warts. That being said, they're delicious. I am no longer afraid of ugly food after eating all my dad's disformed fruits.

here's some lemons that came off my grandma's tree:

http://www.boomspeed.com/tomahto/frameportfolio2.html

oops, wrong link. here:

http://www.boomspeed.com/tomahto/lemons.jpg

This is reminding me of the incident three years ago where author Neil Gaiman found a tomato growing a horn on it in his back yard. The only picture I could still find online was in the bottom right of this page:

http://www.tomatoesareevil.com/tomatolinks.htm

I think he monitored its progress on his blog for a week or so, then picked "the devil tomato" and made salsa.