Snacks at School

I recently (this evening) received the following in an email from Pete's pre-school:

Fruit Schedule for the month of January 2014

Dear Parent,

As you know we give the children fresh fruit every day for snack. Please find below the tentative schedule for the fruits that we will be serving this month.

Date	Fruit
6/1/14	Orange
7/1/14	Banana
8/1/14	Papaya
9/1/14	Chiku
10/1/14	Sweet lime
11/1/14	Saturday
12/1/14	Sunday
13/1/14	Holiday
14/1/14	Holiday
15/1/14	Orange
16/1/14	Papaya
17/1/14	Chiku
18/1/14	Saturday
19/1/14	Sunday
20/1/14	Banana
21/1/14	Orange
22/1/14	Papaya
23/1/14	Chiku
24/1/14	Sweet lime
25/1/14	Saturday
26/1/14	Sunday
27/1/14	Banana
28/1/14	Orange
29/1/14	Papaya
30/1/14	Chiku
31/1/14	Sweet lime

I am not exactly sure what Chiku or Sweet Lime is without Google-ing them (when I Googled chiku the website told me it was sapodilla which didn't do me any good. The only sapodilla I know is a street name in West Palm Beach).

Honestly, I can only assume that the pre-school cafeteria manager has some kind of special relationship with the chiku vendor because we have no problem finding wonderful apples, pears, grapes and pineapples, that I can only imagine would be much more appealing to a four-year old than chiku...or sapodilla...or sweet lime...or whatever.

I secretly can't wait for Pete to take to chiku the same way he took to abacaxi (Portuguese for pineapple. One of the warmest/heart-wrenching memories I have of the time right after we returned from Brazil was when we were in a giant American supermarket (either Publix, Safeway, or Harris Teeter) and Pete pointed at a large pile of pineapples and squealed "Abacaxi!" He honestly had never known them by any other name!)