I have eaten Acai- before it was the rage!!!

So-- with all the rage of Acai Berries, I started thinking back in my experience, "how do I know about these things already?"

I remembered that while on a hike with our youth group in Paraguay, we stopped on the side of the road and they brought me these berries. They started telling me how good they were for you, but I had never heard of them before or seen them. Acai is the Portugese name, but they called them something else that I can't remember. I ate one and it was like a grape, without any "grapiness" if that makes any sense. The inside is white, and there are seeds. I don't remember them being bad or good. Man-- I should have had them stowed away in my bags on the way home! I still haven't seen them, here and surprised that no one is selling the FOOD.