i found heaven in china town

I found a fruit that i though i could only get in Costa Rica! Growing up my grandfather would bring these home and i would sit on the back door step and just eat these and be in pure bliss.
I introduce mamones chinos:

This is a juicy, magical looking fruit. It looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. The exterior feels almost like plastic. The spikes are soft and pliable. Although in Costa Rica they are relatively cheap(when in season) in Chinatown they are $7 a lb!!!!!
The way to eat them is to use your nail to dig through the red part, the sking is soft so this shouldn't be a problem. The whole white thing is what you eat, sort of, there is a large pit in the middle that you most definitely don't wanna eat, so you just eat the fleshy white part. It is a bit sweet and tart and very juicy. Just to eat one feels fancy and exotic and bring me back to really great childhood memories.