Fruit salad

The fruit was purchased at Ace Commercial on Tuesday and brought up to the college that same day. A running shoe box once again held the cans in the refrigerator for Thursday. At over 48 hours this was a record cold soak. A metal bowl was again used.

All fruit was purchased at Ace Commercial. This term none were from Ace Office Supply.

The session was prefaced by a fruit type presentation borrowed from botany soring 2025.  Because of the presentation, and deep uncertainty about attendance on the last period before a three day holiday weekend, no preloading of the bowls was done.

Anticipating low attendance, only 20 bowls were laid out. Based on a 3:00 start being too late, I started at 2:50, but ultimately this proved to be a little too early. The use of the presentation was new and was useful for those students who were on time. Then the bowls were filled after the presentation, with students told to come up and take a bowl. There was, again, leftovers, so second and third servings were done for students who wanted more. Turn out was 18 of 22. 

The cans produced one bowl of fruit cocktail galore.

The mangos were too soft to pick up with a toothpick, they just fell apart. Cornstarch spoons were brought in as a backup plan. These proved useful and probably should have been passed out at the start. 

This is perhaps one of the more enjoyable exercises in the course and turned out to be an ideal way to end a week that has a three day weekend starting the next day. This made the class fun and, to some extent, worth attending despite being the last class period prior to a three day weekend.

As per a prior term recommendation, the cans and bottles were left out in the classroom for reference. The students made good use of the can and bottle labels. 

Tommylee consulting the fruit chart.

Faithjewel tasting a fruit to help identify the fruit.

Maryam and Beverly. 

Pamella, Ashley, Frita, Vinola

Crystal

Hope

This exercise is not only fun, it's also potentially nutritionally healthy.