SoCal food

Now that I am a seasoned SoCal girl (!), I am starting to try a bit more of the local cuisine. Thanks, largely, to Andrew 'I'll try anything once' Goudie.  Yesterday, we had chayote for the first time, which is a Mexican vegetable from the gourd family and looks like this:

We also tried Prickly pear for pudding, which looks like this and has amazingly blood red succulent flesh (and a whole host of black pips which are as hard as hell):

We washed these down with a glass of Californian very dry sherry.  Not sure what to try next, any suggestions?