The Buddha’s Hand fruit looks, to all intents and purposes, as if it could have been grown in a certain town called Springfield. As well as a three eyed fish, it would come as no surprise to see the Simpson siblings discover this peculiar fruit, grown as a result of contamination from Mr Burns’ nuclear power plant. However, this fruit is for real. Unsurprisingly, Westerners often react to the plant by pointing out it looks like the hand of Freddy Krueger, not knowing that it was named after a hand millennia before. This weird citron grows on small shrubs and trees and has a thick peel. There is hardly any flesh within the fruit – sometimes none at all. Furthermore it has no juice and often has no seeds either. So what on earth is the use of this fruit?