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[Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>]

Lucky,

You're blaming the pawpaws rather than your cooking? I've eaten a lot of 
pawpaws with no problems, but I'd be cautious if you offered me a cookie, any 
flavor.

But seriously folks, any food can spoil.

Melissa

--- On Fri, 2/25/11, Dr. Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote:

> From: Dr. Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pawpaw sources and uses
> To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Friday, February 25, 2011, 10:34 AM
> 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
>