"100 Degrees Until Halloween" Day 74 ~ Follow Up (Yellow)

One from my small but mighty group of blog followers (thanks Hilary Lustig!) asked if we could eat the yellow cactus fruit from yesterday's post.  (This project is making me realize how little I know about the desert considering I have lived here since 1996.  Is this thing called a fruit????  CAN we eat it???).  So I plucked it right off the barrel cactus in the front yard and sliced it open.  It smelled peppery (not sweet, like I was expecting) and did not look appetizing.  I suppose you COULD eat it...but I didn't chance it.   (Doesn't the poor thing look parched?  The interior skin looked dry and desirous of some water...)