Crazy fruits and Veggies of Puerto Rico with guest Ghesi Stojanov

All right, we're over here in Puerto Rico and this is kind of a cool thing. I mean, I don't I've never been to a grocery store in Puerto Rico. And you see all these different fruits and vegetables and stuff looks like it's growing in the ground on a tree. I don't know if birds are dropping it off or whatever's going on. So, I'm going to I'm going to Let's take a look at some of the stuff in Puerto Rico that I just don't see every day. What is this? Listen, this is I don't know what this is. Is it looks like It looks like a giant potato, but it's got some weird lines on it. I'm the I'm a whitewash person. Let's get it real. So, everywhere you go, there's like different things. This I know. This is yuka. And this is delicious. Boil it, fry it, add some onions, put some olive oil and salt. Delicious. Yuka, more like yaka. Let's get rid of that one. Huh. Okay, let's What is this thing? Is this some sort of weird pumpkin? Is it Halloween time? This is like a calabasa. You put this in your beans. It's delicious. You put a little potato in there, a little sofrito. Call it a day. All right. Look at this. They got stuff everywhere you go. Look at this. They got the same thing as lettuce like we have over there, but it's heavier. This is This is heavier than the lettuce in the US, which is weird up in the States. Because it's cabbage. Cabbage. You would know if you ate greens. This like the Cabbage Patch Kids I've never seen. Actually, Cabbage Patch Kids must be really heavy. You know, when you see them on TV, they look like they'd be light, but they're not. Feel that. They're healthy. Yeah, that's crazy. So, cabbage. Cabbage. So, then we got some other stuff over here. That's uh Look at that. So, do they do they grow different out here because of the sun? These different colors? These are um Well, I see these like I see people like put stuff inside these sometimes. I only see it on TV. It's stuffed bell peppers. You add some meat, add some rice, add a little flavor. You steam it in the oven, call it a day. Yum. So, you just steam this. You put this whole thing in the oven and then No, you cut it. You don't put the bag in the oven. You have to take it out. So, do they dye these here or is it like a festival thing going on that goes on? Is that what's happening? That's exactly what's happening. It is. Okay, there you go. Puerto Ricans colorful. So, if you want to just try different what it bell peppers, you want to try a different bell pepper, go to go to go to Puerto Rico and get different colored ones. That's pretty cool. Let's go over here and take a look at that. So, chakita bonita kind of thing going on right here, right? Look at this. This is This is a banana. A banana. Do you know how to open one? We're not going to open. I say just squeeze it really Well, this one you squeeze it would just pop out right here. Look. So, do yours yours come pre-slit in in Puerto Rico? Is that so you could open them up? They do. So, you can smell it. There you go. So, you know what? That's They don't do that in the States. You know, that's kind of a nice little feature. You come to Puerto Rico and you don't you don't normally get to smell the banana before you buy it. But here, if you take a look, they come pre-slitted for scenting. So, that's kind of cool. What else do we got going on over here? We have oranges. Oranges. Look at Look at Let's take a look at the oranges. Look at the oranges. So, if you take a look, they're oranges. They're not even orange here. It's like yellow. So, what's what's the deal with that? Is it again? Is it is it dyed? Is it affected? Because it's called a lemon. A lemon. Lemon. Yes. A lemon. Lemon. So, what do you do with these things? You can do many things with that. You can put it in a drink. You can squeeze it. You can put it on salad. Like a lemon drop, like the martini things. Lemon drop. There you go, man. Everywhere you go, let's take a look. Come on with us around this this I mean this is just

This is like this is like a magical this is like a magical produce section. Like I mean come on. We don't have to get to see this stuff every day. Pretty fresh. Let's take a look at this. Okay, let's look. So I know what these are. These are onions. Oh, he knows onions. In Puerto Rico it looks like they come in bags which is kind of nice. Take a look at this. Don't you agree? I mean it's a beautiful thing. Onions are amazing. They have the best flavor. Add it to anything. I don't know. What do you put onions in? Well, it's a it's a it's a Viveben onion. So, that's that's something different. We don't have those. It's a good vibe. A good time. We don't have those things over there. What's this thing? What does that look like to you, Brian? Let's see if Brian knows what this is. That looks like a hand. So, at some point, or look at this. Look like a human body. Look at the head right here. You see that with the arms and the legs. So, I'm assuming that this was maybe a eggshell or something that was opened up and dried out. This was some sort of some sort of like a a bird or something. He's infested. Is it like a bird or something? It's a a baby bird. It's called ginger. You get baby birds dried out. You're not serving baby birds out in Puerto Rico. You know what I think you guys this this is crazy. Everybody should come to Puerto Rico. Check out the produce section. This is just a this it is right. This is just a Walmart. Imagine if we went to one of the local stores. the kind of fruits and vegetables and telling you farmers and baby birds, baby whatever those are. You can get those things. I mean, it's amazing what they'd have the other stores. Hey, thank you for walking me around and and bringing bringing us into a little bit of your culture and stuff like this and getting us to share this with everybody out there. This is amazing. Everybody, if you're in Puerto Rico, reach out to Jesse. Maybe you can get one of these tours of the grocery store as well. And uh bananas. Yeah. And come visit us next week for the rest on the mission, the stuff that's going to be going on, which is really cool. So, uh, how do they contact you to either get one of these tours or get involved in the rest mission? You can contact me at restm mission.org or through my socials, which is rest mission or Jesse Stanos. If you're watching one of these on one of the channels, drop your name down below and we'll get it over to her. All right, we'll see you guys on the next video.