Is it a fruit? A vegetable? Part II

I had the hardest time eating this thing! And not anything to do with it, but my carbon monoxide alarm kept going off! SO OBNOXIOUS! I kept pushing the button to make it stop and it would......for 2 minutes before blaring off again. It was louder and shriller than my smoke alarms! I opened both windows, turned the fan off, double and triple-checked that everything to do with my stove was off, I even tried unplugging the thing! Note to others: The reason they wrote "DO NOT UNPLUG" across the side is because unplugging it will make it go off. Yes, it will stop just long enough to make you relax, but then it will rein death upon your ears! Also, when you plug it back in, make sure it is actually plugged in. It is heavy and awkwardly balanced so that it pulls itself out of the socket and goes off forever until you realize its because it has fallen half out of the socket. Grrr.

Anyways. Back to this:

This is called a cherimoya! And it is DELICIOUS! It tastes like a mango-flavored pina colada. It looks like a vegetable, but it's actually and equatorial-type fruit they've gotten to grow in California. As it ripens, the green turns black and bruised-looking. You know it's ripe when it feels like a ripe avocado. Don't know what that feels like? Apparently that means it gives slightly when pressed. *shrug* Anyhows, the flesh is wonderful-tasting. It would be good with sticky rice, or in smoothies. It would make an amazing ice cream flavor! I know there has to be an easier way to eat it, though. It has big black seeds riddled through it you have to spit out like a watermelon.  I don't know if they're edible. Maybe I didn't let mine get ripe enough and the seeds and the flesh separate easier then.....hmmmn... I will definitely pay the exorbitant amount for this fruit again.