• Jim East@slrpnk.netOP
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    2 days ago

    Nice! Cherimoya and lúcuma are the two cold fruits that I wish that I could grow.

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      2 days ago

      Yea we can grow lùcuma here to (my uncle grows some), but Im not a big fan of it. Though I haven’t tried one since a kid so I should try it again (lots of my other food preferences have changed). How do you like to eat them? I’ve heard they are best in smoothies?

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        I’ve only eaten them out of hand, unadulterated. That’s how I eat almost everything. It’s like cherimoya: rip it open and have oral-sex-at-a-distance with the tree, but don’t eat the outside green part or the seeds. Sometimes they don’t ripen perfectly, so they can be a bit dry or bland, but a good lúcuma has a texture between canistel and mamey sapote and a flavour almost like caramel. (I’ve never actually eaten caramel, but I can imagine.)