Fruit Rage
October 14th, 2008Get me a Therapist
I am still consumed with bitterness and ire over the plantain trees that turned out to be bananas. You cannot imagine my fury. They’re pretty tasty, but I want what I was supposed to get. Dang it.
It turns out there is a nursery down here that specializes in bananas in plantains. The name of the business: Going Bananas.
Another thing to be enraged about, to the point of mouth-foaming: they’re a lot cheaper than the place the phony plantains came from. Twenty bucks a plant. That’s a great bargain. Once you have a plant in your yard, you’re set for life. They reproduce by throwing out new plants from the roots. And boy, do they bear.
I think I’ll get a couple of new trees. I have a big hole where a papaya used to be.
Papayas are really disappointing. They produce, but there is something about the smell of the fruit that reminds me of dog poo. Must be the soil. The ones from the store don’t smell.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:55 PM
That’s odd, I don’t like the papayas from the store. The best papayas I ever had were small ones from, I think, Belize. They were brought to a party I attended by people who import them for a living.
I think Publix has some QC issues related to the S. FL labor market. The food tastes like they turn their refrigerators and freezers off on random nights.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:36 PM
You know the old story.
I cried because I had no shoes,
then I met a man who had no feet;
So I stole his shoes,
because what was he going to do with them?
–Brad
October 14th, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Papayas are pretty common down here. To grow one all you have to do is toss a ripe fruit wherever you want your forest of papayas to grow.
You’re right about the odor though. Some are good and some are nasty. I think the difference is the ripeness and maturity of the fruit. The older the stinkier, whether they ripen on the tree or off the tree. I think the best ones are the ones that are just barely ripe.