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This reminds me of the paw paw. Apparently they grow wild near where I live. I keep telling myself that this will be the year I go find some. http://www.npr.or
by freshyill 11y ago
This reminds me of the paw paw. Apparently they grow wild near where I live. I keep telling myself that this will be the year I go find some.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/09/29/140894570/the-pawpaw-foraging-for-americas-forgotten-fruit http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/09/29/140894570/the...
- jessaustin 11y agoI can definitely recommend the pawpaw. It's like pudding in a fruit. I've harvested from a remotely-located patch for years, but getting to that patch in late August/early September has been a challenge the last couple of years. I try to tell myself that it's okay to leave them for the bears, but no, screw the bears; they can eat grass or roots or something.
- contingencies 11y agoPawpaw with lime juice is amazingly tasty and very good for your liver, apparently.
- jessaustin 11y agoWe're talking about the temperate fruit pawpaw, not the tropical fruit papaya which is commonly called "paw-paw".
- contingencies 11y agoWoah, America has its own pawpaw, that's nuts :) I think the global use for the other fruit is far more dominant, you guys should consider switching to using the term 'Asimina'. Wikipedia says some people call it 'prairie banana', too. I've eaten that somewhere but can't remember where. Not bad, but not as nice as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annona_squamosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annona_squamosa which we get here also.
- jessaustin 11y agoI haven't heard "paw-paw" in place of "papaya" outside of Asia, so I wouldn't call that global. We're not going to change the lyrics of all our old pawpaw-celebrating folk songs just to accommodate someone else's regional dialect. b^)
- contingencies 11y agoIt's like metric vs. imperial. I think you'll find that Asia, Australia, New Zealand, UK all use pawpaw for one fruit.