20 Things You Somehow Missed In Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

18. The Horned Melon From A Galaxy Not That Far Away

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Sticking in Maz Kanata's castle for these next few entries, as the gang sit down for a chat with the wise, orange alien, a rather colourful bowl of alien treats can be seen.

Only, not every piece of delicious and bizarre looking food on show here was actually created by an art department to look like an edible item from a galaxy far, far away.

The rather spiky piece of fruit here is a real-life kiwano, aka a horned melon, with this particularly prickly one of your five a day found in Southern Africa. And this very same "alien" fruit has also been spotted in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, too!

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