Fruit Cart

«’cause would it be LA without Mexicans?
Black love brown pride and the sets again»
Oh Tupac — you wise and brilliant man. Preach the truth. Los Angeles is full of beautiful people, many more vacuous minds, and the country’s best Mexican food. I keed.
I am the kind of girl that weeps at the sight of fresh fruits and veggies. When I was a little girl, my Bengali-​mamma-​bear would make me fruit salad with a hint of lime or lemon, salt, chili pepper and chaat masala. Chaat masala is a scrumptious spice blend with equal parts spicy, tart and JOY.
FRUITGASM = ORGASM INDUCED BY FRUIT
A Mexican fruit salad comprised of fresh pineapple, mango, watermelon, jicama, cucumber, coconut and cantaloupe WITH salt, fresh squeezed lime and loads of chili served in a huge plastic bag with 2 forks for $ 4 or $ 5 dollars. I know what you’re thinking — «jicama nor cucumber are fruits you crazy crack whore.» WHO CARES??? The cucumber and jicama add a burst of crunchy freshness. Screw sugar, honey or some vanilla flavored yogurt doused over a fruit salad. That’s so meh! Talk about white bread. I promise you fruitgasm if you try this delicious fruit salad. It’s an aphrodisiac. I do not jest.
It’s downright embarrassing to be a Los Angelino/​a and not try fruit salad transformed into mana from the heavens. How the hell is it $ 4 or $ 5 dollars? The bag full of fruit is insanely large. The same size fruit salad at the likes of Whole Foods or Starbucks would cost you at least $ 15. Even good olé TJ’s would charge $ 10.
Anyhow, this is the cart made for gringos. My husband, the self-​admitted gringo version of a desi boy, liked the fruit salad from this cart. It had little to no flavor. I belive his comment was, «oh nice, there’s no weirdo red pepper in here.» No babes, you missed the point. Le Sigh. Sure the fruit was fresh. But where the hell is my chili, lemon and salt??? And it cost me $ 4 for the smallest little plastic container of fruit. SMALL PLASTIC CONTAINER OF FRUIT??? WTF??? Where the hell is my extra large plastic bag full of fruit? This cart is in front of WaMu. Don’t go there. This is not an authentic experience. This is a bloody rip off. *Shakes fist*
I have driven around all of Los Angeles in search of the magic fruit cart. The market price is $ 4 or $ 5 dollars for a large bag of fruit salad. I’ve done my research, trust. My fave fruit stand thus far is on 3^rd and Fairfax (right in front of Kmart). I just spied one on La Brea and Melrose. it best not be a rip off.
I was so pissed eating my $ 4 tiny ass container of fruit with negative amounts of chili, lime and salt. Ugh!
This fruit cart gives fruit carts around Los Angeles a bad bad name.