Wash 'em down with Hiney Wine!
Persimmons have to bitten by a hard frost before they sweeten up.
BTTT
Interesting name. Here's one for you: avacado is derived from the Mayan word for testicle. Think about that the next time you have guacamole.
Like Quince?
” The English scholar and wine connoisseur George Saintsbury wrote in his classic Notes on a Cellar that “the one fruit which seems to me to go best with all wine, from hock to sherry and from claret to port, is the Medlar - an admirable and distinguished thing in itself, and a worthy mate for the best of liquors.” “
Nurseries getting 38 bucks each!
I love durian, an incredibly strange smelling fruit like foot odor, garlic, and onion. It tastes a little bit like the latter two, but also fruity and sweet and when eaten fresh, it is essentially a large pod of finger pudding (yes, I am borrowing that term from “finger jello”).
It sounds like this is its European counterpart.
>>Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit that could only be eaten rotten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO2Viv8dQJ4
Interesting. I’ll have to look for these.
This fruit was featured in an episode of Midsommer Murders called “Tainted Fruit.”
What’s a Medlar? Learn All About this Fascinating Medieval Fruit
Interesting article... I wonder how many fruits are forgotten nowadays....
The relatives had “winter pear” trees too when i was young. We pickled them up like you do peppers. They lasted years,were great.
The relatives had “winter pear” trees too when i was young. We pickled them up like you do peppers. They lasted years,were great.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148468/medlars-and-sorb-apples
Medlars and Sorb-Apples
By D. H. Lawrence
I love you, rotten,
Delicious rottenness.
I love to suck you out from your skins
So brown and soft and coming suave,
So morbid, as the Italians say.