Plums: A Conversation - By @sthomasgb

By Sebastien Thomas

Plums: A Conversation

Amongst this D&AD stress it’s good to have a bit of a break once and a while. This has to be enforced sometimes as you feel you need to be working full tilt the whole time.
 So that’s what I did today. I had a break, and had a chat with Larry about plums. I recorded the conversation and the transcript is below.Go ahead and waste five minutes of your life and read it, it’ll take your mind off things. Maybe.Seb: My perception of plums, you sometimes get some and it’s really annoying when they’re hard and sour, instead of soft and juicyLarry: Yea, is it nectarines that are quite similar to plums? Seb: No I don’t think so. Larry: What’s the one with the big seed in the middle?Seb: Nectarines are quite similar to... 
Larry: Oranges? Seb: No, pears. Shit no not pears.. Larry: Kiwi fruit? Seb: Umm peaches! Peaches and nectarines are the same. Larry: OK and a plum has a vinyl type of skin.. Seb: Finish Larry: Yes finish. Seb: Yea and they’re smaller aren’t they, plums. Larry: Quite nice. Seb: Yea but you have some sometimes, I had one the other day and it had a worm in it. Larry: Really? Seb: Yea literally, yea, pretty disgusting.Larry: When you played Cluedo who did you play as? I always went as Professor Plum. 
Seb: Is it Professor Plum? I though Plum was a woman? Larry: No they’re all alliteration aren’t they. Seb: Ah because there’s Scarlett, erm Scarlett damsel? Ms. Scarlett? Larry: Maybe it isn’t an alliteration, there’s Colonel Mustard. Seb: Colonel Mustard, that’s not an alliteration. Larry: You’re not wrong.

Seb: Professor Plum, yea it could well be. Larry: Is there a purple on the Monopoly board? Seb: Yea Mayfair and Park Lane is purple isn’t it? Or is it more dark blue? Larry: Yea more dark blue I think.Seb: Anyway plums. 
Larry: I haven’t eaten one for a while actually. They’re really nice when they’re ripe. Seb: That’s the thing, it’s so rare to have a ripe plum.Larry: The fruit I think it’s difficult to get the balance of ripeness... 
Seb: Yea?Larry: Hardest, that doesn’t make sense, does that make sense? Maybe edit that. 
Seb: What do you mean? 
Larry: The fruit in which it’s most difficult to get the ripeness just perfect.. Seb: Is a plum. Larry: Is a kiwi fruit I think. Seb: Oooh yea, it could be really sharp.Larry: Do you eat them, how do you eat them? I eat them like boiled eggs. 
Seb: What tap the outside and then... 
Larry: No just cut off the top and then.. 
Seb: Oh really? No I halve them and then spoon. Larry: Yea. Some people eat the skin.Seb: Yea that’s retarded. 
Larry: Apparently it’s good for you though. Seb: The vitamins just under the skin. That’s why you eat it. Larry: Hmm that’s probably enough material.