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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

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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