I've had an idea: pasta fruit salad.

[Morbius]

It turns out people have been mixing fruit with pasta for years, I discovered as I started researching.

I wouldn't use mayonnaise.

Here's what I'm thinking right now:

1 lb strawberries, cut up into bite size pieces
2 lb clementines (aka "Cuties" ) peeled and sectioned
2 cans fruit cocktail, juice reserved
12 oz rotini, cooked, drained and rinsed with cold water
1 pkg cool whip

Mix the cool whip with the fruit cocktail juice; combine pasta with fruit, mix in whipped topping/juice mixture. Chill overnight. This is where I am right now; fresh melons are too hard to eat at the moment. Fresh pineapple is tempting but often too hard for the wife to eat (and typically ridiculous in cost). Maybe one can fruit cocktail and one can pineapple. Hmm. Hmm. Canned peaches?

Ideas? Am I crazy?