Preface
If you’re (exactly) like me, then you avoided eating grapefruit until your late twenties because your younger palate considered them too tart and then you remember that your grandpa taught you how to eat grapefruit correctly when you were really young, which blasts you into a dramatic grapefruit-eating phase of your breakfast-time life.
Instructions
1) Slice grapefruit in half horizontally, you know, like along its equator.
2) Place one half into a cereal bowl: rind down, flesh up, that’s the way you’ll want to cut.
3) [optional] Pour some sugar on it (1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon).
4) Separate the flesh from the outer ring of rind by cutting straight down with a knife and around, kind-of like how a can opener works.
5) Step 4 should reveal that the flesh is sectioned off into perfect bite size segments, you are now ready to dig in either by, using a spoon* violently, or continuing with the knife and performing surgery by completely removing the flesh from the skin dividers. Eat.
6) Juice it. Squeeze that rind and let the juice flow into the bowl. It is good stuff to drink as a cap-off to your meticulous and healthy B-fast. BONUS: you have that other half to look forward to for 24 hours. Routines can be good.
* There are spoons with teeth made specifically for grapefruit cleverly called “Grapefruit Spoons”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit_spoons I want one.
Further Reading
Grapefruit provides vitamin C and antioxidant properties. Eating it probably lowers your cholesterol, might react with your medications, might cause or prevent breast cancer (whaa?), might help burn your body fat, and might make you live longer. Dude-check-it:
