On Fri, 28 May 2021 14:29:04 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
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>On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 4:31:03 AM UTC-10, bruce bowser wrote:
>> On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 5:03:14 AM UTC-4, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> > On Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 7:03:20 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>> > > On 2021-05-27 6:19 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>> > > > On 5/27/2021 4:53 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> > > >> I had my first taste of papaya today and it left me wondering what I
>> > > >> as missing. I was on my way to the check out line and saw it in
>> > > >> tubes all peeled and cut up and ready to eat, it was cheap enough so I
>> > > >> thought I would give it a try. The pieces had some yellow and some
>> > > >> orange. The texture was like a melon. The taste? Like a combination
>> > > >> of cantaloup and water but with most of the flavour sucked out. I must
>> > > >> be missing something.
>> > > >
>> > > > I've never been impressed with papaya, either, and I tasted it fully
>> > > > ripe (reddish-orange flesh) fresh off a tree we had in our yard when we
>> > > > lived in Bangkok. The papaya you bought had to be trucked in from who
>> > > > knows where, likely before it was ripe enough in the hopes it might
>> > > > ripen. The peeled and cut up aspect means you didn't have to deal with
>> > > > all the seeds. It does taste similar to cantaloupe. I have no idea if
>> > > > you got to taste a really fresh papaya if it would make a difference.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > Thanks. I guess it wasn't just me. My wife said she had it once in
>> > > Tobago and found it bland but cloyingly sweet and someone suggested
>> > > sprinkling a little lime juice on it to cut the sweetness.
>> > If you have to sprinkle it with lime juice, it's not worth it. I'd rather
>> > eat the lime.
>> Strange, I guess. I've never eaten uncooked papaya.
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>I've never heard of cooking a papaya. Of course, there's a lot of things that I've never heard of. The Hawaiians eat ripe papaya raw. The Hawaiians also use the seeds in salad dressing. The Southeast Asians eat the stuff while it's still green. That stuff is pretty tasteless but my guess is that it contains a high amount of papain. Perhaps it's useful in digesting the foods the SE Asians consume. Maybe we should all be eating green papaya.
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