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Pawpaw is available in every supermarket in Australia, maybe not all year round. I’ve seen quite a few pawpaw trees in backyards, but it’s defi an under apprec

Pawpaw is available in every supermarket in Australia, maybe not all year round. I’ve seen quite a few pawpaw trees in backyards, but it’s defi an under appreciated fruit here too. Dried sugar dusted pawpaw is flipping amazing.

jackvalentine 9y ago
I loved dried pawpaw as a kid (growing up in Aus) but never had it fresh. Is it good?
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
  Hard to beat sugar dusted sweetness, but yeah the fresh fruit is delicious too.
moultano 9y ago
That's a totally different pawpaw! The fruit that Australians call pawpaw, Americans call papaya. Edited original post to avoid confusion
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
  Nah mate, same thing. The Google image search you linked to is the pawpaw or papaya, it goes under both name. See here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya
  - moultano 9y ago
    I should know better since I work for Google, but you're getting results localized for Australia which are all "papaya." I get results localized for the US which are all this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba The funny thing is that I've actually used this example at work as a rare case of an Australia/US localization issue, but totally forgot about HNs global audience when I made this post.
    - TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
      Ooooh, right, I see, thanks for clearing that up. Yep, I see now how the flesh and seeds are similar to a Custard Apple. I’ve eaten those fresh from the farm in Norther New South Whales and liked them. Had limited success with store bought ones elsewhere in Australia. Funny how we both forgot about internet search localisation!
    - StudentStuff 9y ago
      This right here is why I've dumped Google. Long tail searches essentially no longer work, if I type a part number into Google it'll often be rewritten needlessly and I'll get irrelevant results. Even Yahoo can get long tail search right, which is a pretty low bar. Though, Qwant seems to be the most well rounded search engine, both Yahoo and DuckDuckGo have unpolished edge cases that have turned me off over the years.
      - moultano 9y ago
        If you can remember the example queries I can pass them along to debug. (You can check your search history if you have it turned on. https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity )
        StudentStuff 9y ago
        Already passed them along a few weeks back when I was over in Fremont (a neighborhood in Seattle) at the Google Campus. Not expecting much, most of my friends who worked at Google have moved on to greener pastures.
- sundvor 9y ago
  Papaya does make for good ointment cream for massaging post op scarring. :)
- perilunar 9y ago
  From the Wikipedia article you linked to: "The name Pawpaw or Papaw, first recorded in print in English in 1598,[8] originally meant the giant herb Carica papaya or its fruit (as it still commonly does in many English-speaking communities, including Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa). According to Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary, it began to be used [presumably in North America] "from 1760 to designate the papaw tree" [meaning not Carica papaya but Asimina triloba]." So the original pawpaw is papaya, and the American pawpaw is the imposter.

jackvalentine 9y ago

I loved dried pawpaw as a kid (growing up in Aus) but never had it fresh. Is it good?

TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
Hard to beat sugar dusted sweetness, but yeah the fresh fruit is delicious too.

moultano 9y ago

That's a totally different pawpaw! The fruit that Australians call pawpaw, Americans call papaya. Edited original post to avoid confusion

TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
Nah mate, same thing. The Google image search you linked to is the pawpaw or papaya, it goes under both name. See here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya
- moultano 9y ago
  I should know better since I work for Google, but you're getting results localized for Australia which are all "papaya." I get results localized for the US which are all this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba The funny thing is that I've actually used this example at work as a rare case of an Australia/US localization issue, but totally forgot about HNs global audience when I made this post.
  - TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
    Ooooh, right, I see, thanks for clearing that up. Yep, I see now how the flesh and seeds are similar to a Custard Apple. I’ve eaten those fresh from the farm in Norther New South Whales and liked them. Had limited success with store bought ones elsewhere in Australia. Funny how we both forgot about internet search localisation!
  - StudentStuff 9y ago
    This right here is why I've dumped Google. Long tail searches essentially no longer work, if I type a part number into Google it'll often be rewritten needlessly and I'll get irrelevant results. Even Yahoo can get long tail search right, which is a pretty low bar. Though, Qwant seems to be the most well rounded search engine, both Yahoo and DuckDuckGo have unpolished edge cases that have turned me off over the years.
    - moultano 9y ago
      If you can remember the example queries I can pass them along to debug. (You can check your search history if you have it turned on. https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity )
      - StudentStuff 9y ago
        Already passed them along a few weeks back when I was over in Fremont (a neighborhood in Seattle) at the Google Campus. Not expecting much, most of my friends who worked at Google have moved on to greener pastures.
sundvor 9y ago
Papaya does make for good ointment cream for massaging post op scarring. :)
perilunar 9y ago
From the Wikipedia article you linked to: "The name Pawpaw or Papaw, first recorded in print in English in 1598,[8] originally meant the giant herb Carica papaya or its fruit (as it still commonly does in many English-speaking communities, including Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa). According to Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary, it began to be used [presumably in North America] "from 1760 to designate the papaw tree" [meaning not Carica papaya but Asimina triloba]." So the original pawpaw is papaya, and the American pawpaw is the imposter.