Mamo and the Fruit Cocktail Incident

Kirsten’s grandmother, Mamo, has survived her whole life on a diet of burgers and coffee. She doesn’t touch vegetables or fruit. One incident that might help explain this aversion is the story of the fruit cocktail incident. During some floods in the Northern Texas area some years ago, a railroad bridge washed out and a box car full of cans of fruit cocktail emptied into the river. For years, cowboys ranging the land would come to pick up some fruit cocktail. But they all got sick of it. And so did Mamo.