Pear Baby!

by Kidrobot  |  November 4, 2009  |  Published in Style & Culture  |  4 Comments

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Chinese farmer Gao Xianzhang grows Buddha Baby pears on his farm by forcing the fruit to grow into plastic mold shapes. Enlightening.

…and he’s not the first guy to play with his food. People have been molding melons and gourds for ages.

cubemelon

pumpkinhead

heartmelon

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  1. oscar falcón lara says:

    November 4, 2009 at 3:14 pm(#)

    I love those tiny Pear Buddhas, would love to know if we could get them this side of the world.

  2. uberVU - social comments says:

    November 4, 2009 at 3:18 pm(#)

    Social comments and analytics for this post…

    This post was mentioned on Twitter by denisemallari: A lil freaky, but still cool! RT @KidrobotRules Enlightened Chinese farmer molds pears into tiny Buddhas. http://bit.ly/2Z5dSW…

  3. Blizatrex says:

    November 4, 2009 at 5:54 pm(#)

    i would like to see if just the molding process could be brought over

  4. TOTALLY COOL DUDE says:

    November 4, 2009 at 9:09 pm(#)

    That’s awesome but I already knew about this 5 months ago on geekologie.com

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