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Summary: to eat one of those things. Okay, oysters and pitayas each turned out to be a good thing, but still, can you imagine the process that went into discovering that they were delectable? Actually the process is not as involved or dangerous as you might think. The harvesters use a tool called a gancho---the generic name for a hook---to get the fruit from the plant.

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