Kumquats

It may or may not be a strange fruit, but in my life I have never had a kumquat. So I bought a plastic tub of them tonight at Whole Foods:After my scrumptious "home cooked" meal, I popped the lid off and washed them. Then I read the label: "Edible skin and tart pulp."Great! So, after working up the courage, I held it to my mouth:And I took a bite:Yowza! That thing is tart! And it sort of tastes like biting into the skin of an orange. And yet it's sweet. Though tart tart tart. Lemony and orangey and bittery but good.Lauren disagreed."Blech!" she said, spitting hers out into the sink. "It tastes like pesticide."To each his own, I suppose. But now my mouth hurts---it's all tingly and kumquatty. That's one of the side effects, I suppose. And my stomach hurts. Though at least I didn't spit MINE into the sink.