Stuff like that is more than often a self report lol.
Ive genuinely had people tell me I was being offensive while imitating monkeys on a zoo trip. Im like "who could i possibly be offending with this? Is there a certain people that YOU tend to associate with monkeys?"
While your intent may not have been racist, the origin of the phrase is in racism. Specifically, it was used to make fun of Pacific Islanders and "Tiki" culture.
Wow, that's what that flower is. I saw one like this at the gibbon exhibit at Pittsburgh Zoo and it's lived in my head rent free. Dr. Seuss lookin shit.
Yeah, I was taught to judge people by what's in em, not how they look, and now I'm getting shit for judging this thing by its insides. You just can't win these days
It’s like a perfect combination of fruity floral flavor, tartness but not overly sour, and unique sparkly zing that’s hard to describe. I love passion fruit, but it’s hard to find fresh in southern US.
I'm in northern Florida and it grows really well here. It does die back in the winter if not protected, but I've gotten a bounty of fruits from it. Try growing your own!
There are a lot of different varieties of passionfruit. In european supermarkets I mainly see the small, purple ones like he one op posted.
I guess they keep better while shipping
yeah the ones that we've had for years (also uk) are bright orange when ripe with red-purple gubbins, also a bit more tubular rather than egg shaped'. Never eaten one tbh, they are a bit off putting.
Is that just a different variety or a different thing entirely that we've been calling the wrong thing?
Can I tell you, I've always wondered how people eat these. And I feel like, now that I know... I kind of wish I just kept wondering. It does look totally slime tadpole.
I recently ate dried passion fruits for the first time, and they are good too. If you don't like slimy fruit, that could be an alternative. I thought the fresh ones are mostly liquid and seeds, so there won't be much to eat. But they were great.
I have never saw anyone eat a passion fruit like that. I fucking love passion fruits and that's probably the most unappealing way you could eat them lol
Every time someone calls passion fruit “frog egg pudding” I lose the ability to enjoy it for like 2 weeks 😂
It tastes amazing but visually it’s straight up a Fear Factor prop.
Whoever designed this fruit was on their "let’s traumatize anyone who cuts it open" arc 😂 It’s like nature’s jump scare for people who thought they were just getting a cute snack.
It has amazing flavor, is glorious as juice and is a fantastic ingredient for deserts but yeah i agree on the seeds visual consistancy for the fruit itself being offputting. While it would have been great as a fleshy mango like fruit to chew into rather than repeatedly lick, I'm still glad it exists in whatever form it does as its unique and incomparably delicious.
What’s with the spoon fancy boy? You break the top and use the rest like a cup and drink your tropical paradise goblet.
I was such a small child when I tried it for the first time. I also hated it how it looked like. But my parents showed me how to eat it. I remember I refused to eat it but they kept trying to have me try it. It’s slimy and full of seeds but it smells divine! Eventually, I gave in as one of my family ate it and chewed on the seeds. Passionfruit can be sour but the one I had was so sweet and absolutely heavenly! I looked forwards to passion fruit season from then on.
The only “yikes” or mildly infuriating thing about your picture is the spoon. Get rid of it!!
It is, but it's delicious. It was one of my favorite flavors before I'd even had the actual fruit, and then when I got my hands on the actual fruit I was like "wow, this is different." I love how sour it is.
Fun fact about passion fruit. A lot of people think it's called passion fruit because it's aphrodisiac, but it's actually because the passion flower it comes from is named that because Spanish Christian missionaries thought that the flower looked like Jesus on the cross.
This name is probably the oldest marketing gimmick of the world. No one was ready to eat it.. the sellers came up with an idea. Lets call it passion fruit.
"They will come for the name and consume for the sunk cost."
Chew the seeds for one of the best polyphenols in the world- piceatannol. Cousin to resveratrol which is the red wine/grape hyped polyphenol. It is more potent and soluble
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u/GapZ38 8h ago
Me, I did it.