Thursday, August 21, 2008
Foods Let's Play Name That Fruit
Posted by Carrington Fox on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:00 AM
When my mom pinched a leaf off my basil plant yesterday, she said the vibrant taste transported her to Florida in the 1950s, when she used to eat a fruit with a taste and smell akin to the basil. She doesn't know the name and says she hasn't seen one since she first rode in an Edsel, but here's how she remembers it:
Orange-red, ridged like a pumpkin, skin like a tomato, the size of a cherry tomato. She picked it from a shrub (as opposed to a vine), and she can't say with certainty that it wasn't toxic.
Mom, are you thinking of this?
I hope not, because that's homemade vegan candy corn.
Can anyone name that fruit?
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It's not exactly pumpkin like, but the base flavor is a bit herblike:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_fruit
The surprising part is what it does to other flavors!
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It's not likely that this would be it, on second thought. They really weren't cultivated in any form in the United States until the 60s.
But they're cool, let me tell ya.
Could it be the ground cherry (or gooseberry)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_cherry
