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Challenge: Fruit
Wilma Neanderthal Posted Feb 19, 2006
Yo Fruit lovers...
I have been looking at the whole pawpaw/papaya thing. It seems there are two different fruit here. The one discussed in MJ's recipe seems to be Papaya (known as papaw or pawpaw in Australia, Africa and the Caribbean). This is a strictly equatorial fruit.
The other Paw Paw grows all over the US - just found a PawPaw festival in my old haunt in Ohio 
. There's a lot more I didn't know than I initially realised.
*rereads that and wonders if anyone else can understand it*
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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Feb 19, 2006
Oh pooh! 
- just scratch that whole sentence out then and substitute "thick as 2 short planks"...
for tonight, anyway
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U168592 Posted Feb 19, 2006
Nah, I gets ya. Is it the same stuff though, or is Paw Paw in the States some kind of weird name for a Dog Show?
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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Feb 19, 2006
woof!
Pawpaw in the States seems to be a variety of custard apple. The pictures show a completely different fruit... and "our" fruit is called papaya in the States...
I'll try to find you a link to a photo.
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U168592 Posted Feb 19, 2006
How VERY strange...
Least they're not Barkers Eggs then 
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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Feb 19, 2006
Eyy? Wassat then?
Barking eggs?
What, they need therapy?
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U168592 Posted Feb 19, 2006
hmm. Okay I see I have to explain this.
What do dogs do? Well they Bark don't they.
And what do chickens lay? Eggs yes?
So... Barkers Eggs would be something that dogs lay...
Mind your step!
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~:*-Venus-*:~ Posted Feb 20, 2006
For Bernadette.
Yep, Physalis is also known as golden-berries. I'm sure if i looked, its known by other names accross the globe, just like the paw-paw.
I wonder how many different names anyone can find for the same fruit? Anyone want to try?
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Pimms Posted Feb 20, 2006
Quince is mentioned as another of the wide variety of fruits in the Rosaceae family in Blackberries, and a bit more in A2903681 The Original Marmalade. I agree there is a fruit gap. Thinking of Paw paws reminded me of A1984421 The Mystery of the Sweet Potato (ok it isn't actually a fruit, but it does taste sweet), and of course A208847 the tomato is a fruit too.
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U168592 Posted Feb 21, 2006
hmm, I thought I'd do Lychees, but seeing as MiniMy is giving Rhambutans a bash and they're sort of the sameish...
I think I'll do weird Aussie fruits instead, Lilly Pilly being the first 
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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Feb 21, 2006
Following your logic on the Barker's eggs above...
Snow: white, a banned drug, pristine
Snowdrop: new, springtime
dropping: what pigeons do on my car 
: naughty, bad
OK, I give, what's a snowdropping ?
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U168592 Posted Feb 21, 2006
ah, snowdropping
This is the professional (psych nurse) term for a person who steals white kinckers/panties off clothes lines in people's back gardens for sexual stimulation.
You asked
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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Feb 21, 2006
I would have never thought of that.
'sides, with me and laundry, it is strickkly a proffessional relationship How anyone can get turned on by clothes when they have to wash, dry and iron them everyday is beyond me 
... now a nice bar of G&B Caramel, a 
and my man is a totally different.... 
*grabs Trog and throws him tot he ground*
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U168592 Posted Feb 21, 2006
*averts eyes*
By god, is this what Ann Summers parties do to women?
*peeks*
Crikey!
Who'd have thought all this talk of fruit would have this affect...
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