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[Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>]

The ones I have tasted must have fermented; they tasted sweet, but not 
very good. I am open to another try though.

Did you pick up pods that had fallen, or did you pick from the tree?

Betsy Hilborn



On 11/6/2014 6:38 AM, Devin Smith via nafex wrote:
I just had my first real taste of honey locust pod goop and am 
absolutely hooked. I'd never really thought much of the assertion that 
the pods were "edible", knowing only that it was a lot of work to eat 
them and that the stuff inside was kind of sweet. No one ever told me it 
tasted like tropical taffy! I've since tried lots of different ways of 
getting out the pulp, no of them totally satisfactory. Anyone know the 
best way to get the goop out? Its hard to believe so little breeding 
work has been done to improve these. It would be great if there was a 
seedless pod variety that produced lots of goop. Then it would perhaps 
be possible to run the pods through a set of rollers to extract the goop 
and perhaps obtain it in quantity. I understand they are dioecious. Does 
anyone know if seedless pods with goop are possible from pistillate 
trees, or would some kind of sterile polyploid perhaps be required? I 
see there is an interest group for honey locust.
  Consider me interested.