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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

Amy,
Pawpaws, yuck.  I agree with you on this.  We did find a grove of pretty 
nice ones, rather banana like in texture and pretty good eating.  I thought 
that was what they were all like till I encountered the selections from the 
Ky planting.  They were big fat things with a texture like pudding and the 
flavor did nothing for me.  I brought some home and my husband and I both 
had the runs the next day.  After I found out that the cancer fighting 
compound in them also can cause Parkinsons', I lost all interest.  Obviously 
few of the people who ate lots of pawpaws ever developed Parkinsons, but it 
runs in my family.    Donna