Fermented Squash

So this past week the team had just arrived to a village when a little boy came running up to me and handed me a round mushy green thing. I just smiled and said thank you. However, the boy was still standing there starring at me. So I asked the translator what it is and he said the boy had climbed all the way up a tree to pick it for me and that i should eat it. So I just smiled as a million things raced through my head like how dirty the boys hands were, strange insects could and pecked on it.....then I closed my eyes and took a big bite. I tasted like fermented squash! But, it brought a huge smile to little boy's face that I will never forget.