Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
How different our tastebuds can be.

I don't taste pumpkin flavours nor cinnamon naturally in fresh whole persimmons.

Just make sure you buy/eat them when they are nice soft and very ripe. So that it will lessen the astringent flavour/puckerish taste. I've seen recipes for persimmon bread, cookies, squares and cakes.

Another fruit I haven't quite figured out to eat properly or eat good ones are cactus pears.
Do you mean like prickly pear cactus pears or like dragon fruit (the hot pink one with the black speckled inside)? I like eating the latter just'cause it's really cool looking.

I actually tend to get the persimmons that stay firm when ripe - I don't know if fuyu is the variety or if that's just japanese for persimmon. I've never been able to stand the texture of squishy persimmon. If mine get squishy, I make juice out of them or give them to people i know that like them squishy.

There's an american persimmon tree in my Mom's yard - we'd always try to trick someone into eating them before the first frost...

And what about pomegranates? As a kid, I confess I would sneak into yards to steal pomegranates. They're a lot of trouble to unwrap, but delicious
Ijust had one this morning. I'm at my Mom's and she left out pineapple and pomegranate for me for breakfast. Which means she's going to send me home with a ton of them 'cause the rest of my siblings are ingrates and don't like fruit as much


I actually love naval oranges, I haven't really had them in a long time. When I was young my parents used to order a couple crates/boxes of naval oranges and then about a month later a crate/box of tangelos up from Florida. My siblings didn't like fruit and we'd get in a heck of a lot of trouble if the oranges went bad, so I used to have to eat like 4 or 5 of them a day throughout the winter. But my Mom doesn't order them anymore.