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In Virginia we have pawpaw fruit that taste like custard, but must be eaten soon after picking since they bruise very easily and don’t store or ship well.
by mjklin 6y ago
In Virginia we have pawpaw fruit that taste like custard, but must be eaten soon after picking since they bruise very easily and don’t store or ship well.
- markdown 6y ago> pawpaw fruit that taste like custard Do you mean pawpaw, or custard apple (aka sugar apple in the US)?
- mohaine 6y agohttps://www.starkbros.com/products/fruit-trees/pawpaw-trees https://www.starkbros.com/products/fruit-trees/pawpaw-trees To eat cut in half and eat with a spoon. So good. I planted a three variety pack 5ish years ago and got a lot last year. Safely a late freeze mostly got them this year
- ndespres 6y agoThey are describing a fruit known in parts of the US as pawpaw and custard apple both. Never heard it called "sugar apple" but there are 2 different fruits known as custard apple so maybe you are thinking of a different one.
- markdown 6y agoThis is the one I meant: Annona squamosa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar-apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar-apple) It's called custard apple in my country. We call papaya, pawpaw. Any discussion of fruit needs to use their botanical names since they're called different things in different places.
- foobiekr 6y agoPawpaws are nothing compared to their better cousins in the Annonaceae family, and in particular the Cherimoya. Downside; they all contain annonacin, which may cause Parkinsons. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annonacin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annonacin
- KMag 6y agoWhoah. Thanks for the warning. There's a squirrel that keeps trying to stash custard apples in my mother-in-law's planter in Thailand. They're tasty (and delivered by squirrels!), but I didn't know about the toxicity.
- pvaldes 6y agoVery interesting, we talk of eating three thousands of fruits at year in any case. I wonder how the new hyped varieties of pawpaw would score. I really appreciate your contribution. Thanks.
- lisadean 6y agoThis is totally unrelated to this post, but the one I want to comment on (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093297), I can't. I wonder if I could get a link to the pdf for The Priceless Gift by Cornelius Hirschberg? It's a very hard to find book :)