Introducing...the Guapple

We had some guapple for dessert a couple nights ago.

I have to say that neither of us were impressed with this fruit. The problem is, our guapple knowledge in non-existent. Was it ripe? Were we supposed to eat the very, very hard seeds? Was it supposed to be so sour? Is it what it sounds -- and looks -- like: a fruit that is a little bit guava, a little bit apple?

So I went looking for information about the guapple. There's nothing at all on Wikipedia. (If it's not in Wikipedia, does it really exist?) But Google turned up a variety of Web site, most of them about guapple pie, and most of them bearing Web addresses in the Philippines. According to the Web site of Negros Occidental province, guapple pie "is a delicious pastry made from guapple fruit, a guava-apple hybrid."

That's one mystery solved, but I probably won't be eating more guapple anytime soon.

Unless, maybe, it's in a pie....