Or Groud Cherries, as the package says. Oops! But it's très charmant. When I first saw them at a distance I thought they were gooseberries, to the extent that once I actually read the label I wondered if ground cherry was an alternate name. But no, they are their own unique phenomenon.
These one are actually naked - they grow with little coats on (see illustration) like tomatillos. I've seen them before on cakes in fancy bakeries but never actually tried one.
The result? Well, the word cherries is misleading. They smell a bit like cotton candy, but bite in and there's a burst of intense sweetness, followed by a taste that's like a combination of tomato, pineapple and vanilla. The ground cherry straddles the line between fruit and vegetable, sweet and savory.
Not bad.
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