I think it’s mostly the texture. Slippery black beads floating around in runny sticky snottiness. I don’t like eating anything that can’t be bitten: when I eat watermelons I’m really careful to avoid the seeds.
But Database Queen placed this fruit in my hand so there’s no way around it, even if I hate having my horizons so stretched.
This type of passionfruit is larger than the usual purple passionfruits eaten in Australia, round and smooth rather than wrinkled. Admittedly it does look pretty, with mauve skin speckled with grey like an exotic egg. It’s very light.
Time to cut it in half. Huh, the skin is pretty tough… requires some actual sawing.
Okay, it’s open and it’s mostly hollow. The inner side of the fruit’s skin is creamy yellow… with some odd, coral-like tuber growths poking off it in random patterns.
The edible seeds are sticky, hanging together with little liquid and much mucus, all seed and no sea. Each seed is dark bile green with a bright yellow tip.
It looks so gross, I really can’t believe I’m expected to put this in my mouth!
Sigh. The sooner I taste it the sooner I can stop tasting it.
Gah, it’s so sticky I can’t even scoop some of the seeds away from the rest! There is no way I putting this all into my mouth at once, no way on earth.
Pull some apart. It dangles from the spoon. Doitdoitdoit…
The seeds crunch between my teeth, so loud it feels like it echos in my ear.
The taste is intensely sweet and tart, very tropical, that taste I come across on pavlovas and avoid as much as I can.
Alright, honestly, while the taste is not what I like I can see how some people would like it. But I hate the stickiness and I can’t stand the seeds. If I were to eat the whole thing I would just swallow without chewing, like a dose of pills.
But I am not going to eat anymore. I tried it. I don’t like fancy passionfruit anymore than I like regular passionfruit.
Time to find some Easter chocolate as a reward for eating the food I’ve least wanted to eat since November.
Rating:
Specifics: Panama passionfruit bought from Harris Farm, Merrylands
Panama Passionfruit
I don’t like passionfruit.
I think it’s mostly the texture. Slippery black beads floating around in runny sticky snottiness. I don’t like eating anything that can’t be bitten: when I eat watermelons I’m really careful to avoid the seeds.
But Database Queen placed this fruit in my hand so there’s no way around it, even if I hate having my horizons so stretched.
This type of passionfruit is larger than the usual purple passionfruits eaten in Australia, round and smooth rather than wrinkled. Admittedly it does look pretty, with mauve skin speckled with grey like an exotic egg. It’s very light.
Time to cut it in half. Huh, the skin is pretty tough… requires some actual sawing.
Okay, it’s open and it’s mostly hollow. The inner side of the fruit’s skin is creamy yellow… with some odd, coral-like tuber growths poking off it in random patterns.
The edible seeds are sticky, hanging together with little liquid and much mucus, all seed and no sea. Each seed is dark bile green with a bright yellow tip.
It looks so gross, I really can’t believe I’m expected to put this in my mouth!
Sigh. The sooner I taste it the sooner I can stop tasting it.
Gah, it’s so sticky I can’t even scoop some of the seeds away from the rest! There is no way I putting this all into my mouth at once, no way on earth.
Pull some apart. It dangles from the spoon. Doitdoitdoit…
The seeds crunch between my teeth, so loud it feels like it echos in my ear.
The taste is intensely sweet and tart, very tropical, that taste I come across on pavlovas and avoid as much as I can.
Alright, honestly, while the taste is not what I like I can see how some people would like it. But I hate the stickiness and I can’t stand the seeds. If I were to eat the whole thing I would just swallow without chewing, like a dose of pills.
But I am not going to eat anymore. I tried it. I don’t like fancy passionfruit anymore than I like regular passionfruit.
Time to find some Easter chocolate as a reward for eating the food I’ve least wanted to eat since November.
Rating:
Specifics: Panama passionfruit bought from Harris Farm, Merrylands