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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Rose Rook, 81, of Paw Paw

Please tell me that is a real place

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Damn someone was just telling me I should plant paw paw trees the other day. Good fruit I guess?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you catch them ripe then they are a seedy soft banana with a different flavor. It's so soft that the best way to eat it is with a spoon using the peel as a bowl.

But they have a very short window of ripeness, there's a reason that they're not commercially grown and it's generally because of the short ripeness window and they're easy to bruise during transport.

If you've got the space and the time go for it, it's a fun little conversation starter to give family, neighbors, & coworkers something that they may not know grows right in their back woodlot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wow TIL. It sounds amazing, can't believe I never thought to look for north American native fruits like this. Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Have you ever noticed, when you hear a word for the first time, you will hear that word again within twenty-four hours?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Supposed to be a flavor akin to a mix of banana and mango, so maybe the best fruit possible.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Michigan has a Hell, so there's no reason it can't have a Paw Paw.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been there. When it SNOWED!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It got a little moist, but we left before nightfall. (My mom, under no circumstances, was spending the night in Hell!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, not with kids in tow, certainly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

kids in tow

You see, she was already in hell ! :-D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the most important question: Did they have a human-sized handbasket?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, but they do have a country bar.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A pawpaw is a real fruit, related to the cherimoya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

"Mooom! Paw paw from Paw paw's trying to destroy our democracy again!"