"The Fruit of the Month Club"

Have you ever had something happen in your life and you immediately flashback to something you saw on a television show? One day we got a large box and it was filled with different fruit.  It looked like it came from our health insurance company.  Why would they send us a box of fruit? So we would eat better? 

On September 13, 1996, the very first episode of the comedy "Everyone Loves Raymond" aired and it ran for nine years.  In the first episode, Ray, (Played by comedian Ray Romano), and his wife sent a box of fruit to his parents.  His parents suddenly had more than a dozen pears and his mom asked, "What are we going to do with all these pears? There is so many of them."  Ray suggested that she give them to her friends and she said, 'Who am I going to give all the pears too?"  One last comment was while talking with someone on the phone she said, "I can't even think straight, there's so much fruit in the house."

When she found out that another box was coming each month for a year, she said to her husband, "They have gotten us into a cult." Finally, Ray had to give in and said he would cancel the fruit deliveries.  This scene was a running joke in other episodes over the years.

We had only a couple pears and we ate some of them and some other fruit, but we never expected to get another box.  I'm not sure which box this was, but below is either the second, third, or fourth box of healthy food we received.

We did eat some of the food and gave away some also. We talked about calling our insurance company to stop it, but we never expected more boxes.  After the fourth box we called and was told that they only send four boxes of healthy food.  We didn't ask why, but the idea that we were getting the fruit of the month club kept us laughing each week.