Peach Plums

Picture this. We (Charly and I) arrive late to a wedding reception. After saying our hellos to the bride and groom we "slowly" and "casually" make our way over to the food. Chuck picks up a yellow slice of something that is red in the middle. He takes one bite of it and then hands it over to me.
"You have have to try this" he says with this look and voice. Like it is simply the most delicious thing he has ever tasted and must be shared immediately, and Charles is not a food sharer so that means something.
"What is it?"
"Just try it."
What it is is a very hard, unripe, piece of nectarine. First of all, props to anyone that tries to serve nectarines at a wedding. I have found them to be the single most hard piece of fruit to ripen or tell when they are ripe. Second, I chock chuck's response up to the fact that he probably hasn't had one since we've been married.

So I'm casually strolling the fruit aisle a few weeks later when I see the nectarines and think, hey I should get bunch of these. When I get home, I pile them on the counter so I won't forget to check everyday for them to ripen and do homework till Charles gets home. When he does, and he sees the nectarines, this is how our conversation goes.

"Ooh, Did you get peach plums?"
"What?"
"Peach Plums?"
At this point I know he's talking about the nectarines, but I just have to say it out loud.
"Peach Plums?" I ask. "You mean the nectarines?" Now I'm incredulous. "Have you never had a nectarine? Whose thirty and doesn't know what a nectarine is?!"
We both agree that he must of had them before but just doesn't remember then and he tells me that peach plums are a real thing. Then he cuts one up and sits down (picture above). When I see them on his lap I say "you know they're not ripe," to which he replies over enthusiastically:
"They're still good."
I am laughing so hard at this and it still makes me smile. Chock it up to marriage thangs, because I don't think anyone else is amused with this story as much as I am. Let me tell ya, though, I've definitely had my fair share of peach plum moments.