Serious question! lol
I'm out sick today with the cold from h*ll, and feeling useless, but this I know about:
When I was a kid, I used to eat half grapefruits with lots of sugar on. Then one time, somebody gave me a piece of regular grapefruit with no sugar. I thought it would be horrible, but it wasn't bad. Now, when I eat grapefruit, I don't add any sugar, and usually just peel and eat like an orange. Red grapefruits are sweeter than yellow.
Hey, this is something that is right up my alley
I prep them like they do for salads; I don't try to eat it out of the rind with a spoon anymore. I've gotten really fast at this and can do it in about 2 minutes:
First, peel the grapefruit, but DON'T try to get off that thick white rind (you'll see why). Then pry it apart into 2 halves with your hands. Now get a sharp knife, and cut off the very ends of it......where the indentations were in the rind. This is going to help loosen the fruit, and you really don't lose the fruit, just the rind and membrane part. Now take the end of the knife and separate the thin membrane from the wedge of grapefruit, and then you can just work it free from the thick white part and plop it into a bowl. It's easier to do when the white rind is thicker. If a piece gets stuck then cut it apart, you really don't lose much of the fruit, and I figure you're getting more than trying to do the "spoon and grapefruit half" method anyway!
I've gotten pretty fast at this, and now I have a grapefruit at work almost every day. I love it! Hope this helps!
Umm Gayle - as you know I pretty much eat 1/2 a grapefruit every morning. I also have one of those serrated grapefruit spoons that I just use to dig in to the sections after I've cut it in half. No knife to cut out the sections or anything like that. Now I use a little bigger bowl than it sounds like you are using and if it splatters it splatters. When the sections are gone I squeeze the juice into the bowl and drink it -- yep - like a kid drinking the leftover milk from his cereal bowl. 
How, in the world, do you eat these without making a huge mess? I've been placing a 1/2 grapefruit in a bowl so it sits snug and doesn't slip. Then I use my grapefruit spoon that has those knife-like edges on the tip.
But I'm splattering it ALL over the place...my clothes, the keyboard, the PC screen!
Is it easier and less messy to eat it like an orange and peel then wedge it???
Please help me!
Gayle
How, in the world, do you eat these without making a huge mess? I've been placing a 1/2 grapefruit in a bowl so it sits snug and doesn't slip. Then I use my grapefruit spoon that has those knife-like edges on the tip.
But I'm splattering it ALL over the place...my clothes, the keyboard, the PC screen!
Is it easier and less messy to eat it like an orange and peel then wedge it???
Please help me!
Gayle
