punkonjunk1024
03-26-2006, 02:12 PM
OK seriously. I got one of these things when I was little, and never got one again, because I didn't want to spend 5 bucks on a fruit, and I never had an income. Well I saw the fuckers in the store today, and I was like "I FUCKING LOVED THAT THING" So I buy one, and take it home. And I'm like, "I'll google it to make sure I'm eating it right"
So I get this shit. (http://www.obsess.com/fruit/kiwano)
Seriously.
you rapidly come to the realisation that this is quite possibly the most steadfastly inedible fruit known to man. the seeds pop enthusiastically from their housing as you dig into the flesh, but it comes away as a frothy, gelatinous mess that looks more like something you'd expect to see hidden in the corner of a garden pond than anything you'd particularly like to eat. it's slimy, sloppy and almost entirely without flavour; the seeds are tough and fibrous and thoroughly unenjoyable to chew through.
i had real trouble eating all of this one (which i felt i needed to do in the name of strict empirical science, if not that of actual gastronomic enjoyment), and i think it's the only fruit i've eaten that made me go yeuch when i'd finished. the consistency of the flesh made me nauseous after a while, and the seeds had a conspicuously unpleasant taste that made me feel a little twinge of ancient primal unease about eating them in the first place.
I didn't find instructions, but I was like "wtf was there something wrong with mine?"
Because I remembered it tasting like bananas and kiwi. So I open the damn thing open, scrape the seed things out (which I will admit look ALOT like pond scum) and I ate that crap. The seeds were fine, and the taste was great.
Nothing says anything good about this fruit - Anyone else like it? Did they find it to be horribly bitter or gross?
I think it's great. it has a strong taste of slightly unripe banana (how I eat them) and kiwi.
This fruit rules. Plus it's secksi.
Thoughts?
So I get this shit. (http://www.obsess.com/fruit/kiwano)
Seriously.
you rapidly come to the realisation that this is quite possibly the most steadfastly inedible fruit known to man. the seeds pop enthusiastically from their housing as you dig into the flesh, but it comes away as a frothy, gelatinous mess that looks more like something you'd expect to see hidden in the corner of a garden pond than anything you'd particularly like to eat. it's slimy, sloppy and almost entirely without flavour; the seeds are tough and fibrous and thoroughly unenjoyable to chew through.
i had real trouble eating all of this one (which i felt i needed to do in the name of strict empirical science, if not that of actual gastronomic enjoyment), and i think it's the only fruit i've eaten that made me go yeuch when i'd finished. the consistency of the flesh made me nauseous after a while, and the seeds had a conspicuously unpleasant taste that made me feel a little twinge of ancient primal unease about eating them in the first place.
I didn't find instructions, but I was like "wtf was there something wrong with mine?"
Because I remembered it tasting like bananas and kiwi. So I open the damn thing open, scrape the seed things out (which I will admit look ALOT like pond scum) and I ate that crap. The seeds were fine, and the taste was great.
Nothing says anything good about this fruit - Anyone else like it? Did they find it to be horribly bitter or gross?
I think it's great. it has a strong taste of slightly unripe banana (how I eat them) and kiwi.
This fruit rules. Plus it's secksi.
Thoughts?