Miami is home to all sorts of ethnicities living next to and on top of each other. That means that the grocer has to carry some pretty strange things sometimes. Food from other countries have a kind of novelty to those born Stateside and can sometimes pack a better reward that our own domestic oddities. There are times, of course, when foreign food is just wrong.
Buddy Fruits. A skim milk smoothie that doesn’t need refrigeration? Nothing artificial added? Will make me happy? These are some pretty strong claims for a French import that’s packaged like a baby snack. The little 1.2oz sippy packages won’t win you any macho awards and getting to the end is like rolling a tube of tooth paste to squeeze out the last of it, but Oh my!
Eat it! These little pouches of smoothie or fruit gummies pack a heck of a punch (the Orange gummies are, in fact, so strong they lasted three days). The smoothies are just damned good! For South Florida, Buddy Fruits are affordable hurricane food. For the Northeast Corridor U.S., Buddy Fruits are blizzard food. Not having to refrigerate healthy food can never be a bad thing. The friendly, healthy messages are a hoot and the expiration notice in broken English, “Best Before End,” that’s cute too and true on many levels.
