Vitamin-packed solar system

by June

In the midst of the winter blues, Blossom and Fern cooked up some sunshine: an edible model of the solar system. In their universe, the earth was the third tomato from the grapefruit sun.

Using National Geographic’s map as a blueprint, they emptied the fruit bowl and raided the cold bin. Out came the canning-lid rings to adorn the onion standing in for Saturn.

Astronomers down-graded Pluto from the planetary circle, and Fern and Blossom deemed him merely a split pea.