Re:A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name
by thitcanh on Sunday March 28, 2021 @07:14PM
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Reminds me of a fruit I know as Chico Zapote: Inedible when unripe (feels like green bananas and not sweet), then edible for a day, then too sugary for its enjoyment a day later. When ripe/rotten is good in small quantities, but it feels so much like eating sugar that I can’t handle more than half of it.
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Re:A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name
by ppezaris on Sunday March 28, 2021 @11:34PM
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We have a couple of black sapote trees in our yard; sounds similar.
Re:A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name
by thitcanh on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:26AM
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Ahh I love black sapote too. Indeed you eat it when it feels rotten, except black sapote isn’t particularly sweet, at least the very few ones I tried in Oaxaca.
Did you know… black sapotes are of the same family of persimmons? If you focus, you’ll notice that they taste very similar.
Re:A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name
by pvaldes on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:13AM
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> of the same family
Is an american cousin, Persimmons are Diospyros kaki and Black sapotes are Diospyros nigra, so technically is a black persimmon. In US there are other obscure native persimmons also like Diospyros texana