Flavor Grenade

Today I stumbled upon a list of varieties of the pluot — the plum-apricot hybrid crossbred by scientists in the last few decades. Varieties of any common produce often have these beautiful, evocative or otherwise quirky names that try to get at the heart of their fruity goodness, and this relatively new Frankenfruit is no exception. So in the tradition of Vitamin Q, an immensely enjoyable blog that compiles lists of such things, I thought I'd list today's findings. The better names of pluot varieties include the following:

• Blue Gusto
• Candy Stripe
• Dapple Dandy
• Flavorella
• Flavorglo
• Flavor Grenade
• Flavor Heart
• Flavor King
• Flavoros
  
• Flavor Prince
• Flav-o-Rich
• Flavor Queen
• Frugi
• Last Chance
• Red Ray

Honestly, I'd have named the fruit the "plumicot" instead of the "pluot," but even I can't turn up my nose at the likes of "Flavor Grenade."