You have to eat a melidrop the day it's picked. Everyone knows that. That's what melidrops are like. The Queen glared at Sutton Pufrock. The courtiers stared at him as well.
Nothing can compare to it.
I remember, when I was younger and far away on my travels, I would sometimes spend a day beneath a melidrop tree, plucking one fruit after another to my heart's content. The Queen shrieked in frustration and slammed the lid of the box. She ordered her footmen to carry Sutton Pufrock away immediately. It was too much. For years people had been sending her melidrop seeds, melidrop trees and melidrop fruit, and she had still not succeeded in tasting a single one.