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["Dr. Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

I know I recounted this tale several years back - 'cause Richard Moyer has
had the chance to kid me about it on a couple of subsequent occasions. ;>)

I came across a couple of pints of pawpaw pulp that I had frozen back, and
made a batch of pawpaw cookies.  My daughter ate several, and I took the
rest to the office to share with coworkers at morning break.
When I got home that afternoon, the daughter had come home from school with
vomiting and diarrhea - and a half-dozen or so coworkers became ill within
20 minutes to 2 hours after consuming the pawpaw cookies; My boss spent 3
days at home, and thought he was going to have to go to the hospital.
Needless to say, NO ONE that I work with will eat anything pawpaw-related,
and they kid me relentlessly about the pawpaw cookies.

After that deal, I can eat maybe one pawpaw a year - and that's enough to do
me 'til the next year (or 2 or 3). 
I've never had the occasion to sample any of the named-variety pawpaws -
only the local natives; don't know if the named selections would appeal to
my palate more, or not.

Lucky