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More Fruit Choices In Playero
Was someone asking about chicory or endive? I see these are now on sale in playero...at only $160 each!
I was, and yes they were ridiculously expensive, but I still bought them... and indulged myself...
Shame on me.... lol
Now, when are they going to get fresh Mussels!!!!
BelgianK
Stand on the curb until Ken comes by and then sell it to him... he'll pay a premium
Use them in smoothies, mixing with other fruit. A good combination would be pithaya, orange juice, a little bit of banana, and a little bit of coconut yogurt. Add ice. Blend. Yum!!!
The pithaya are so good for you, it would be a waste to throw it away!
Lindsey
I would not put the Betel (Areca) nut in the same class as fruits, since it is "consumed" (chewed) in Asia not eaten. No apparent health benefits- it is a carcinogenic as well. I would put in the same category as chewing tobacco, alcohol, etc... A vice rather then staple.
when i was a kid we had two kinds of exotic fruits available (only at christmas time): banana and orange. i was never a big fan of bananas, they tasted like rotten potato with sugar. of course a dominican, naturally matured banana is 100 time better than what you can but back home but i am not sold on these. oranges were cuban, very orange and very good, the kind you peel, segment and eat, not peel, cut in half and suckoslurp out 
other exotic fruits existed only in books and movies. and boy, was i fooled. take coconut, for instance. as a child i saw a coconut once, an aunt was given one by her son, who traveled abroad with marine school internship. it was taken out of the green casing, brown and hairy. proudly displayed on a shelf for years (pretty sure she still has it, 40 years later). i kinda knew how coconut looked like because later i saw them in bounty ad. and i thought it did taste like bounty. what a dumb ass when i tried coconut water i spat it out, same with fresh coconut flesh. so gross! to this day i only ever eat old coconuts where the flesh is hard and white.
then take mango: i envisioned mango as a cross between apple (size wise) and strawberry (flesh wise). no one told me the damn thing has fibers and a gigantic stone inside. no one told me it comes green, yellow, orange and red, small, bog, round or oval.
or a pineapple. all is fine, the thing is tasty, if slightly funny looking. exotic fruit like this will grow on nice pineapple trees, i thought. wrong! it grows out of a short, stubby plant, like a common cabbage! disappointment of the decade.
other exotic fruits existed only in books and movies. and boy, was i fooled. take coconut, for instance. as a child i saw a coconut once, an aunt was given one by her son, who traveled abroad with marine school internship. it was taken out of the green casing, brown and hairy. proudly displayed on a shelf for years (pretty sure she still has it, 40 years later). i kinda knew how coconut looked like because later i saw them in bounty ad. and i thought it did taste like bounty. what a dumb ass
when i tried coconut water i spat it out, same with fresh coconut flesh. so gross! to this day i only ever eat old coconuts where the flesh is hard and white. then take mango: i envisioned mango as a cross between apple (size wise) and strawberry (flesh wise). no one told me the damn thing has fibers and a gigantic stone inside. no one told me it comes green, yellow, orange and red, small, bog, round or oval.
or a pineapple. all is fine, the thing is tasty, if slightly funny looking. exotic fruit like this will grow on nice pineapple trees, i thought. wrong! it grows out of a short, stubby plant, like a common cabbage! disappointment of the decade.