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  • From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
  • To: nottke1 <nottke1@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Steve's first persimmon
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:38:31 -0500

I'm really glad you said that! Here's why....

I meant to check the store receipt to see if I really paid $2 each for those things. I know that's what the sign said above the small display. I thought the receipt was long gone but my wife found it somewhere because there it was on the kitchen counter this evening. I looked and instead of persimmon, it showed as "Sharonfruit 2@.66 each". I told my wife that we got a deal because they rang them up as some other fruit. She mildly scolded me for being happy that we cheated the store. (She's obviously a saint.)
Well, now I can tell her nobody got cheated because that's another name for persimmon (in this one situation, anyway). I even found the sticker I pulled off the one we ate tonight and sure enough, the biggest word in the center of the sticker was "Sharon". I probably saw that before, long before I looked at the receipt, and thought it was the name of some grower and not their name for the fruit.

Steve

nottke1 wrote:
The Israeli persimmons are sold around here as Sharon Fruit.

Steve, the persimmon you had is a Fuyu which is a non-astringent
kaki persimmon. To many, these are best eaten when still firm with
just a little give under pressure. The Isreali growers call it
something else which I forget, but it is just a marketing strategy. It is the astringent varieties that need to be eaten mushy soft.


Jim Nottke
Zone 7
Pfafftown, North Carolina


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