What do they taste like, Tom??It’s pawpaw season again!
I only found 2 ripe ones today - the rest were hard as rocks still. Next week looks like it will be the week, if I manage to get down to the river.
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They taste sort of like a cross between a mango and a banana. It’s hard to describe, but the taste reminds me most of a grenade-shaped fruit you can find in East Africa that I don’t know the name of and haven’t had is many, many years ( real helpful, I know…). At any rate, they are very sweet and a real treat when properly ripe. Here is a picture of the inside, taken during a bike ride a couple of years ago:
I know exactly the fruit you mean, but don't know it's name either!They taste sort of like a cross between a mango and a banana. It’s hard to describe, but the taste reminds me most of a grenade-shaped fruit you can find in East Africa that I don’t know the name of and haven’t had is many, many years ( real helpful, I know…). At any rate, they are very sweet and a real treat when properly ripe. Here is a picture of the inside, taken during a bike ride a couple of years ago:
Of course it has been almost 30 years, so put side-by-side they might not be all that similar in taste. They were my very favorites, though, so I do have a fairly strong recollection. Anyway, whitish flesh, black seeds, short season - they share all those things, so that’s what pawpaws REMIND me of..I know exactly the fruit you mean, but don't know it's name either!
It's more than 40 years for me!
I used to get them in Lebanon, they were my favourites too, but I can't even remember the Arabic name for them! You've described them very well though, and they're really not easy to describe, neither their appearance nor taste 
Jack Black
, grenade-shaped and Middle Eastern, East African makes my first guess be pomegranate (based on name).No, it is a green thing with segments that make it look sort of like a fragmentation grenade as I recall. The segments taper inwards towards the middle of the fruit, and each one has a black seed in it. I should have specified that I don’t know the English word for it. My wife calls it “aat”, but which of the 3 languages she grew up speaking that is, I’m not sure…J Just Tom. and
- GT
No. See my post and image above.Do you think chayotte? Or prickly pear?
I have not eaten mangos since 1977, when back from Ivory Coast. The taste of the wild, small, mangoes fresh from the tree is imperishable. But maybe your mangoes are of South American origin, different of our turpentine smelling uns from Africa.
There's a joke in our primary school yards, that translates quite well :
How do you harvest pawpaws (papayes)?
With a fo-fork (foufourche)!
:https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...al-knife-tales-vignettes.754492/post-19233738
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? Hasn't been around since last November. Somebody was asking and I had to admit I'd not seen him for a spell.I think you are on to something there. I googled it and they seem to definitely be related. Wikipedia also puts them in the same family as pawpaws, which would explain why I found them similar:
The dictionary says differently. seamingly....
Also, the American pawpaw is not a papaya - I believe you and I had a heated discussion about that the fist time I posted a pawpaw pic
That is just a mistranslation. I will direct you to the same article as last time for clarification:
www.nps.gov
Duly noted!That is just a mistranslation. I will direct you to the same article as last time for clarification:
Pawpaw: Small Tree, Big Impact (U.S. National Park Service)
Pawpaw are small trees that don't grow past 100 feet. Yet they have a big influence. They're the most commonly observed sapling in our NCR forests and are virtually immune to deer browse. They also produce the largest edible fruit native to North America!
