The taste of an eggplant could be described as pepper meets tomato.

They decided to splurge on the biggest banana split for dessert.

...not a street of show poverty, to impress strangers, just as there is show iniquity, but of the real poverty, of snag-toothed, crouchy, hungry, gnarl-bodied people who step aside on the crowded walks...

Verdins are yellow-faced desert-dwellers that are commonly encountered in southern Arizona. […] Although primarily insectivorous, Verdins will also readily consume nectar, which they obtain by piercing tubular flowers or by visiting hummingbird feeders.