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Christmas Punch Requires a Formerly Forbidden Fruit
- tetris11 2y agoIs that fruit related to yeni dünya?
- cess11 2y agoTejocotes is a hawthorn, yeni dünya is a plum. I'm guessing they differ in acidity and pectin content.
- sureIy 2y ago* loquat And no. It's more like an apple.
- agtech_andy 2y agoNo, but it is related to alıç. That family spread around the world. Yeni dünya (loquat in English, which comes from Chinese) is a completely different thing.
- ctxc 2y agoArticle tldr: "Authorities were worried that tejocotes could carry highly destructive fruit flies into the States, threatening domestic orchards. Soon, there was a black market for the golden fruits, due to their rarity and the effort it took to bring them over the border."
- raldi 2y agoThank you, I came here to post this exact piece of buried clickbait antidote.
- pkaye 2y agoWe just had some medfly detected in our country in California and the county has doing weekly treatments around our neighborhood. https://pressreleases.cdfa.ca.gov/Home/PressRelease/62099064 https://pressreleases.cdfa.ca.gov/Home/PressRelease/62099064
- crazygringo 2y agoI'm excited to try these! I love discovering new fruits. In the same vein -- is there any website that catalogues all the fruits you can buy around the world? That documents all the varieties, together with which countries/states/cities you can find them in? When I travel, discovering new fruits is one of my favorite parts. Like when I discovered the custard apple [1] in Brazil, it blew my mind. And it would be really cool to have a list of all the fruits you could buy when you travel to make sure you don't miss any. Or the fact that the article says tejocotes are sold in NYC -- when I've never come across them -- makes me wonder what other fruits are here that I also had no idea? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annona_squamosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annona_squamosa
- tiagod 2y agoYou might like the YouTube channel "Weird Explorer". He's been traveling the world since 2012, attempting to taste every fruit. https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer
- KineticLensman 2y agoDefinitely better than the Victorian explorer who wanted to eat one of every animal
- diggan 2y agoFast-forward 100 years into the future, 20 years after we discovered that also plants were sentient and have feelings too, and some news corporation will run a story about how crazy the 2000s were, since people were openly eating fruit and seemingly people cheered them on.
- 1propionyl 2y agoIt's not as uncommon here as tejocotes, but I'm always chuffed to find good looking and not overripe mangosteens at farmers markets or specialty produce suppliers. They're more common to find at Asian markets, where they often come in mesh bags of a half dozen, but my experience is they're often overripe and their fruit has become slightly translucent and mushy. You can identify a ripe mangosteen by a rich reddish purple exterior that gives slightly when pressed. If it's darkened to a blackish purple and is very hard to the touch, it is probably over-ripened. They are very rare at farmer's markets though. Growing them in the USA in most places requires a greenhouse as they need a tropical climate: year round high humidity and a minimum temperature of ~55-60F.
- dlcarrier 2y agoRIP 99¢ Only Stores They always had tejocote, and at a great price. (Although not always fresh, which is the only way it was ever prohibited.)
- myvoiceismypass 2y agoDollar stores still exist today. Dollar Tree is actually a gold mine of deals!
- ajb 2y agoThey are all over London, although not in dollars obviously. In one street there is a 99p store, and then a couple of doors down, a 98p store.