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A work mate brought in a basket of them. Small, round and light orangish in colour, smooth grape like skin, tiny edible seeds and wrapped in a papery leafy brown jacket.

I have just eaten one, it tasted a little like a plum.

The workmate has no idea what they are, she only bought the little basket because it was 'fancy'.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Apricots?

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

is it a fucking cuMquaT?

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

Who knows???? Not I. Don't think their apricots, do apricots wear jackets?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Physalis?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.martinpyka.de/bilder/physalis2.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

A Limchangel?

― Frogm@n Henry, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.labuznik.com/images/ingredi

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.labuznik.com/images/ ingredients/cumquat.jpg

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Cape gooseberry

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Yay! Archel wins!!!!

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

archel otm, i'd imagine.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.miyazakibrand.jp/brand-list/cumquat/img/photo01.jpg

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

mmm physalis

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

(Nick wins too really since I think cape gooseberry = physalis.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

They're more ornament than fruit, better to look at than to eat.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

(I couldn't remember the posh name, but I could remember that they looked like a gooseberry with a cape on)

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

I was just about to say kaki (which is the japanese word for it).

http://www.obst-gemuese.at/images/product/imgbig/kaki.jpg

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm not all that keen on syphilis au naturel, but if pull back the paper bit, give it a twist and dip the berries in chocolate they're a scrummy, impress-your-pals party treat.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

!!!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

But yeah it's true, chocolate would improve them. As with most things.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

They're great on their own too, I think. And I particularly like how nature has solved the problem of sticky fingers by providing leaves to shield your fingertips. Ingenious!
(Ok yes chocolate helps)

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

I can't think of many things that chocolate *doesn't* improve...

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

I like them on their own -- am I wrong in remembering something a bit sharp in the flavour, along with the sweet sweet fruitiness? mmm... sweet sweet fruit...

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

I can eat three or four, but then they start to make me feel a bit sick. I can't really explain it.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

They taste a bit sour to me, like unripe tomatoes.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

I rather like them, we used them as dessert garnish at the restaurant, which worked quite nicely.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

mädchen is dead right about the chocolate thing. dust them with icing sugar/cocaine for added effect.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I found it rather tart.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

num num they're lovely! i only bought them because they looked weird. but the taste is good sour/sweet thing and they have a hint of that meltiness that starfruit have.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Syphilis, chocolate and cocaine is some combo.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't that the last Primal Scream album?

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

weird, we call those persimmons round here!! i had to photograph some last week!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I've never been called upon to photograph a fruit in my life. So far.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

i luckily get to do it all the time! btw the persimmons were like, SOGGY

they weren't very photogenic. i had to spritz them with water to make them look appetizing.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Persimmons are a bit different - they're bigger and don't have the paper lampshade business around them.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

I can't think of many things that chocolate *doesn't* improve...

garlic

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Mole has garlic in it though

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

chocolate garlic sounds GREAT to me.

it's only for the sake of other people that i don't induldge my desire to eat raw garlic every day.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

the chocolate-improvement thing was put to the test here:
Chocolate covered bacon!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

A gnarled little tree in my new garden has started to bear some kind of fruit - a bit of cursory investigation by Mrs A suggests it might be greengages, but can the greenfingers/grocers of ILX illuminate us any further? They're only about 2 inches long at the moment, suspect some growing still to be done:

http://img35.imageshack.us/i/dsc00166uh.jpg

http://img576.imageshack.us/i/dsc00168y.jpg

― Bill A, Sunday, 27 June 2010 11:27 (fifteen years ago)

hmm, that didn't work:

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/4337/dsc00166uh.jpg
http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/9794/dsc00168y.jpg

― Bill A, Sunday, 27 June 2010 11:30 (fifteen years ago)

The elongated shape is a little odd for a greengage, since they pretty much look like a green version of a plum...but the cross-section makes me think that's what you've got. Maybe a hybrid of some kind? Love greengages - my nan used to grow them, they're DELISH!

― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 28 June 2010 03:31 (fifteen years ago)

I don't know if they might become more spherical/plumlike as they mature? The former owners of the house (idiotically) tied a clothes line round a main spur off the trunk of the tree, over time this has cut through the bark and killed everything above it. I wonder if it's possible that the remaining live parts have been traumatised by this, hence peculiar fruit?

― Bill A, Monday, 28 June 2010 07:28 (fifteen years ago)

I thought Feijoas until I saw it cut open, now I couldn't tell you.

― Kate, Monday, 28 June 2010 08:55 (fifteen years ago)

i'm sayin Damson

― Guru Meditation (Ste), Monday, 28 June 2010 09:06 (fifteen years ago)

Nice one Ste, a colleague's wife also suggests it could be a bullace aka green damson. The query has been escalated to her (gardener) father for immediate attention:

http://www.brickfieldspark.org/data/bullace.htm

Kate, I've never even heard of a Feijoas!

― Bill A, Monday, 28 June 2010 09:08 (fifteen years ago)

nine years pass...

https://usdawatercolors.nal.usda.gov/pom/home.xhtml
http://www.morselnewyork.com/foodart/2017/10/3/over-100-years-ago

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 5 August 2019 19:21 (six years ago)

http://usdawatercolors.nal.usda.gov/download/POM00000862/screen

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 5 August 2019 19:25 (six years ago)

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