“Persimmons have to bitten by a hard frost before they sweeten up.”
There was a grizzled old persimmon tree along “the path” in the woods behind the house, when i was a kid. We learned young when not to eat them. But I’ve eaten my share when they were ripe. Yum.
And there’s nothing like a perfectly ripe persimmon. Had some in Kyiv. Yumm!
Haha! Yes. Talk about puckering up!
No need to mention what matsutake ‘shrooms taste like, eh?
My youthful experience became a family legend.
On the other hand a ripened soft wild persimmon is very tasty. We had 2 trees on our Jersey shore property. My two year old son was crawling around on the grass in the fall and picked one up that had fallen. Then he bit it and decided it was good and finished eating it. I did not know about eating it but I knew it was a persimmon and therefore edible so I tried one and it was delicious. The only problem is the seeds. Anyway, after that every fall we looked forward to the harvest. I used to like mashing them up and rubbing the flesh away from the seeds and then using the flesh to make persimmon bread with a banana bread recipe.