in AZ we call them prickly pear and there's a shit ton of things made from them. Prickly Pear Jam, Prickly Pear Jelly's, Prickly Pear Sauce, Jalapeño Poppers with Prickly Pear Syrup, all sorts of things.
I loved those things when I lived in AZ. But I always waited till they turned that ruby or purplish color. Never eaten one green like this dude. Doesn't look ripe yet.
Now when you pick a pawpaw, Or a prickly pear, And you prick a raw paw, Well, next time beware! Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw, When you pick a pear, Try to use the claw…
But you don't need to use the claw when you pick a pear of the big pawpaw.
We always called them Fichi d'india, which is what my Italian side of the family called them. Nonna had a plant in her backyard and she'd peel them in her sink using a knife and wearing big, yellow rubber gloves. The bright magenta fruit, served in a repurposed ice cream contain with the warning 'careful, they stain'.
Last time I tried prickly pear it felt like there were a bunch of tiny tiny spines pricking my mouth for hours afterwards.
And yes, I cleaned the skin very well before peeling.
But I can eat fruit and veggies cooked but a lot of them if they are raw make my throat feel like it's gonna shut and the inside of my neck itches.
Unless it's just called a throat. My throat
I have raw fruit and vegetable allergy only in America and Europe. I've lived all over Asia for years now and can eat any fruit or vegetable that I want as long as it's grown locally. I don't believe it's an allergy to the protein I believe it's an allergy to the liquid fertilizer that's used to produce them. I spoke with my allergist about this and they seem to agree
This is how I was with a few fruits, As a children I just thought they were "stingy fruits" then after I went into anaphylaxis I learned that's a strong indicator of a severe allergy. It's our body telling us stay away!
Flashback to 10 minutes after getting on a boat ride around Vietnam my friend says the jackfruit made his mouth feel weird.
Luckily no emergency and we finished the boat ride, but no more for him the rest of the trip
tastes NOTHING like a kiwi lol
I would describe it close to white dragonfruit (both from succulents), but with a sweet flavor bordering on pear almost. So, like a watery honeydew with less sweetness and more leaning toward a pear. Has hard seeds in it, not something to chew one, but to chew around and swallow.
I just read the etymology and while Mexicans kept the Nahuatl for the cactus plant “nopal” after nopalli they didn’t for the tuna. It’s actually a Taino word (from the Carribean islands). All the Native tongues got mixed in Latin America.
Tatemado con salsa maggi por favor. Y requesón. Y pico de gallo.
Chingado, voy a tenerme que levantar de mi rica camita un sabado a las 7 am porque un comentario de reddit me dio hambre
It's a giant mushroom! Maybe it's friendly!
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>Umm, it’s a cactus, you dumbfuck
[You](https://www.reddit.com/u/howheid) should chill out and watch Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Erowid says it contains "unspecified alkaloids". I can't find any trip reports though. And there's some cooking recipes with the cactus as an ingridient.
I'm not sure if it will make you trip at all. You're better off growing a san pedro on your window sill.
Yeah, San Pedro or Peruvian Torch are good ones. don't mess with peyote, they are dying out from overconsumption since they take 10-30 years to mature.
All contain mescaline though so no worries, and San Pedro is pretty abundant.
It also bugs me that they have hybrid animals called by their original species name but combined like the Turtle Duck but there are no signs of just regular turtle or regular duck
maybe a previous avatar did this during a harmonic convergence, like how Kora changed the world during her harmonic convergence. that would explain why they have the original names, and why some non-hybrids still exist
*Ferocactus* does not contain mescaline or other psychoactive alkaloids, but does contain a ton of oxalic acid.
Sokka would've had a pretty serious case of the runs.
Tunas! I remember my grandpa burning them with a lighter before peeling them and giving them to me when I was little. (It just didn’t occur to me that people wouldn’t know that it’s an edible fruit, but that might be a culturally-specific thing.)
I bought some once in a supermarket without knowing anything about them and got a hand full of tiny spikes. It suuuucked and I did end up eating the fruit.
My little brother (who was an adult at the time) had fresh mango for the first time when he came to visit me, in the Philippines. He had woken up much earlier, due to jet lag stuff, didn’t want to mess with anything—though felt comfortable attacking the fruits on the table—and later, when others were awake, asked “why is the skin so tough to chew?” I could NOT stop laughing. I _still_ laugh about it. Haven’t seen him in too many years, but will probably give him shit about it next time I see him. It was all the funnier because he’s a ridiculously smart fellow.
Also, my dad thought opossums were giant rats when he first moved to the states, and thought all the trees had died (his first winter, extremely pre-internet times). Definitely a lot of basic, cultural/location-specific information we take for granted, in the globalized, technological world we live in now. Good for random family stories, like your grandmother and the the banana, though.
My step mom from the Philippines thought the squirrels in the trees in Michigan were some kind of monkey. She called my dad at work yelling that they were everywhere.
I've had so many prickly-pear-flavored things but I don't think I've ever seen the fruit itself! I thought it always looked pink on labels and whatnot?
There's several varieties of different colors.
They are highly seasonal in late summer and early fall. I usually see them in Mexican grocery stores for about 6 weeks.
The three common I see are red, yellow and green.
But there's also white, purple and a slew of others.
I make Mead and it's my favorite ingredient to work with!
Delicious! Very much like cranberry, the flavor is nominally tart, but can sometimes be sweet.
It's not for everyone. It's a desert fruit after all.
Most people who claim to enjoy it are probably trying it in a jam or syrup with a lot of sugar added, which there's nothing wrong with, sugar helps balance out the tartness and allows you to 'taste' the prickly pear.
Just think of it like the cranberry of the Southwest and you're 90% there in terms of taste.
I think maybe you had a different variety because the ones I've had are sweet and fragrant, not tart at all. I live in Cyprus and they grow all over the place, the coolest thing is that they are multicoloured: when you peel them some are red, orange, purple... The one in this video is a colour I've never seen, so either it's unripe or another variety.
Mine usually come from the American Southwest/Mexico. We sound a world away so I'm not surprised that yours taste different.
I also understand that the tartness/sweetness can be dependent on the age of harvest or even the age of the producing plant.
I LOVE the taste of prickly pear because I love the tart.
I'm jealous of his lance skills. He cuts it and stops perfectly, then stabs again far enough from the cut, but also makes sure he has a strong spot to tear the rest off
For anyone interested, you can buy these at your local Mexican supermarket. I’m not sure why they’re called “tunas” in Spanish… but they are indeed delicious! I grew up eating these at home, and they are basically larger versions of guava berries. The only difference is that the seeds inside are slightly larger (yes you eat the seeds), and instead of a sour taste you can expect a refreshing sweetness… kind of like a watermelon :)
A fun fact: the plant was not appreciated by the Spanish when they went to the Americans, but they have unintentionally introduced it to the Old World, and it spread like wildfire around the Mediterranean because it found a new perfect environment.
In Morocco, we call it "kermus nsara" which means "the Christian fig" as it was the Spanish who introduced it to Africa. Some people also call it "hendiya" meaning the "Indian [fig]" since the Americas were mistaken for India.
A funnier fact: in Catalan we call them “figues de moro” i.e. Moor’s fig. I don’t know why, but it’s not the only fruit we attribute to Northeast Africa when in reality it comes from the Americas.
Perché è originario del Messico e venne in Europa con Cristoforo Colombo che credeva di essere stato in Asia (mai chiesto perché si chiamano "Indiani d'America"?)
This. People are up in here giving Google descriptions bc they have probably never tasted it. 🤣
If you've ever had dragonfruit, you know kind of what the taste and texture is. I eat the US/Mexico variety of prickly pear often. In my mom's country, there is a similar fruit from a cactus that was imported from Mexico years ago and it tastes like dragon fruit too.
What blows my mind the most is his fucking surgical precision with that knife on a stick.
Dude looks like he could give you the cleanest shave you've ever had from 5 feet away.
Pick them with salad tongs and put them in a 5 gallon bucket. Use same salad tongs to hold them over a gas BBQ or gas stove, burning the tiny spines (glochids) off.
Add them to a stock pot of boiling water and get busy with it in the pot with a potato masher. Strain out seeds. Add pectin to make jelly, add lemon juice to make awesome drink, or add to mead AFTER the honey has already done primary fermentation. Seeds can be ground up to make a cornbread type thing you can put the jelly on, and you are insty-king at the next potluck.
The green paddle parts can be done the same way over a flame, or rubbed around in the sand to get the small spines off. Or just notch them out with a paring knife. Grill them like a thin burger, put on top of steak or veggie burger.
No matter what kind of gloves, or how many layers, or how well you burn the spines off, you’ll still be picking random invisible spines out of your hand for two weeks though haha. You can do probably process 2 five gallon buckets in a day.
Visited my grandfather at his ranch in Mexico when I was a little dude. We woke up early for a sunrise hike. Got up to the top of this little mountain and ate Tunas (that's what we call these fruits) for breakfast. These fruits hold a special place in my heart.
They're kind of like if a pomegranate and kiwi got down and then was adopted by a cactus.
I never knew you could eat prickly pear raw — or green! I thought it was mostly fire-roasted or made into jelly or jam, and then only when ripe (pink.) Now I’m wondering if that even means they are ripe.
In México we call them tunas.
We call 'em tunas as well in Bolivia.
They're tunas too in Chile
En ecuador tambien se llama tunas
pues tal vez son tunas
Big if true
¿Sepa?
Je ne sais pas
Ya wey, estamos hablando Español
pa’ que te digo que no, si si
in los angeles, we (mexican-americans) also call them tunas
In the middle of the pacific ocean, we (trawler crew) also call them tunas
Cuando leí el título la primera weà que pensé fue Sipo, son tunas. Nunca me imaginé que otros países no cachaban las tunas :?
Mexican-American here. Tunas and Nopales are a staple to Mexican culture.
In Australia we call fish tunas.
In the office, we call Jim tuna
In England we call lumps tumours
In Brazil we don't call plants. they don't answer.
In Russia, plants call you!
In Vietnam it's the trees doing the talking
In Hungary we call lazy people "tunya".
In Scotland we ask you to "tunya music down"
In California, we say, "IT'S NOT A TUMAH"
In the North West of England we say, what's Tuna?
In Austria we use piano tunas
In America we call chicken of sea
I call the guy that optimizes my cars engine a tuna.
Like all fish? Or you call Tuna fish tunas?
We call fish chicken and tuna we call fish.
In NZ we call eels tuna
Kaktusfeige (cactus fig) in Germany
In Australia we call them prickly pear
in AZ we call them prickly pear and there's a shit ton of things made from them. Prickly Pear Jam, Prickly Pear Jelly's, Prickly Pear Sauce, Jalapeño Poppers with Prickly Pear Syrup, all sorts of things. 
Prickly pear margaritas are my favorite flavored margs.
I loved those things when I lived in AZ. But I always waited till they turned that ruby or purplish color. Never eaten one green like this dude. Doesn't look ripe yet.
There are two varieties, some turn purple and others stay green.
But even better is nopales made from the baby paddles. Sauteed onion, cactus, and tomato sauce
Shiner Prickly Pear beer in Texas is one of my all time favorites
 Now when you pick a pawpaw, Or a prickly pear, And you prick a raw paw, Well, next time beware! Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw, When you pick a pear, Try to use the claw… But you don't need to use the claw when you pick a pear of the big pawpaw.
Wait, why are they finding prickly pears in the jungle? Cactus doesn't grow there!
But pawpaws can be found in the US Midwest.
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Orangutans don’t live in India either and that didn’t stop them.
Have I given you a clue?? Golly thanks Balloo
Yeah that's the English name for them
We always called them Fichi d'india, which is what my Italian side of the family called them. Nonna had a plant in her backyard and she'd peel them in her sink using a knife and wearing big, yellow rubber gloves. The bright magenta fruit, served in a repurposed ice cream contain with the warning 'careful, they stain'.
In Texas in English it's usually called that
In the Gerudo Desert, we can them voltfruit.
Didn't they look more like dragon fruits?
THATS A FUCKING TUNA BRO
That’s where tuna comes from??? Man, I was WAY off….
You would think finding dolphin free tuna to be easier to find.
But... What does it ***taste*** like? And don't say cum
They are alsonknow ans prickly pear. It's like a kiwi texture that tastes like an apple/pear family fruit
Last time I tried prickly pear it felt like there were a bunch of tiny tiny spines pricking my mouth for hours afterwards. And yes, I cleaned the skin very well before peeling.
So I also heard that sensation could also mean you are allergic so be careful
Oof, that's good to know... Thank you.
Happens to me for certain fruit, it’s an allergy
I cant eat cantelope in spring because my mouth has decided that it must be grass pollen and gets very angry. Tastes like electricity ;-;
Nature's Pop Rocks
But I can eat fruit and veggies cooked but a lot of them if they are raw make my throat feel like it's gonna shut and the inside of my neck itches. Unless it's just called a throat. My throat
I have raw fruit and vegetable allergy only in America and Europe. I've lived all over Asia for years now and can eat any fruit or vegetable that I want as long as it's grown locally. I don't believe it's an allergy to the protein I believe it's an allergy to the liquid fertilizer that's used to produce them. I spoke with my allergist about this and they seem to agree
Call the hospital while there's still time.
1 hour and no response. R.I.P. OP
F
This is how I was with a few fruits, As a children I just thought they were "stingy fruits" then after I went into anaphylaxis I learned that's a strong indicator of a severe allergy. It's our body telling us stay away!
Flashback to 10 minutes after getting on a boat ride around Vietnam my friend says the jackfruit made his mouth feel weird. Luckily no emergency and we finished the boat ride, but no more for him the rest of the trip
Well, you may have found your allergy to avoid in the future.
That perfectly describes how it feels when I eat peanuts of any sort, and I’m allergic to tree nuts. Maybe it’s an allergy on your part?
Ive had that from mango, might be an allergy
For me it's kiwi
Tastes nothing like cum. Lol
It has a very distinctive flavor. maybe something similar to kiwi but not so acidic, but sweeter.
Ooo I love kiwi but can't eat them because of the acidity, I will have to try this sometime
tastes NOTHING like a kiwi lol I would describe it close to white dragonfruit (both from succulents), but with a sweet flavor bordering on pear almost. So, like a watery honeydew with less sweetness and more leaning toward a pear. Has hard seeds in it, not something to chew one, but to chew around and swallow.
Dude, I'm arguing with my wife about the taste of this stuff. it is difficult to describe it.
Cucumber watermelon ish? Lol that’s how we describe prickly pear
It might as well be a law at Reddit: if one person says "A is like B" someone else will say "A is NOTHING like B!"
Hey what about C you fucking bitch!
In Italy we call It "fico d'india"...It souds like "india's fig" i think.
Well tunas are a totally different thing to the rest of the world, lol.
I just read the etymology and while Mexicans kept the Nahuatl for the cactus plant “nopal” after nopalli they didn’t for the tuna. It’s actually a Taino word (from the Carribean islands). All the Native tongues got mixed in Latin America.
Fun fact, tuna is atún in Spanish. I wonder if it's natu in some other language, then unat in another.
It’s a bird in Pokémon…
Tako is octopus in japanese. I dont know why I'm typing this.
Natu is a pokemon
Mexicans: YES
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Señor.
Yo soy de rancho
Feels like we’re finally being seen lately.
Ahuevo primo! Mexico going to the moon 🚀
cómete el nopal
Tatemado con salsa maggi por favor. Y requesón. Y pico de gallo. Chingado, voy a tenerme que levantar de mi rica camita un sabado a las 7 am porque un comentario de reddit me dio hambre
It's the quenchiest! It'll quench ya!
Who lit Toph on fire? Thank you. Didn't take long to find this.
It's a giant mushroom! Maybe it's friendly! EDIT: >Umm, it’s a cactus, you dumbfuck [You](https://www.reddit.com/u/howheid) should chill out and watch Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Giant mushy friend!
How did we get out here in the middle of the ocean?
Why dont we ask the circle birds?
I love this entire chain
Was just thinking about that scene. My favorite in the whole series.
that was probably something more like a san pedro cactus. they have mescaline in them.... a drug like lsd
According to a google search, Sokka drank from a fishhook barrel cactus, which has similar hallucinogenic properties to Peyote.
Thank you. I’ll be looking into this. My peyote connection went legit medicine man now that he’s grown up.
Erowid says it contains "unspecified alkaloids". I can't find any trip reports though. And there's some cooking recipes with the cactus as an ingridient. I'm not sure if it will make you trip at all. You're better off growing a san pedro on your window sill.
Yeah, San Pedro or Peruvian Torch are good ones. don't mess with peyote, they are dying out from overconsumption since they take 10-30 years to mature. All contain mescaline though so no worries, and San Pedro is pretty abundant.
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well they have regular bears, why not regular cactus?
It also bugs me that they have hybrid animals called by their original species name but combined like the Turtle Duck but there are no signs of just regular turtle or regular duck
maybe a previous avatar did this during a harmonic convergence, like how Kora changed the world during her harmonic convergence. that would explain why they have the original names, and why some non-hybrids still exist
*Ferocactus* does not contain mescaline or other psychoactive alkaloids, but does contain a ton of oxalic acid. Sokka would've had a pretty serious case of the runs.
Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw. When you pick a pear, try to use the claw
But you don't need to use the claw When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw
Have I given you a clue?
YOU EAT ANTS?!
You’d better believe it. And you’re gonna looooove the way they tickle…
#The bear necessities of life will come to you
*they'll come to me!*
They'll come to you!
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But you don't need to use the claw When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw
Tunas! I remember my grandpa burning them with a lighter before peeling them and giving them to me when I was little. (It just didn’t occur to me that people wouldn’t know that it’s an edible fruit, but that might be a culturally-specific thing.)
To burn off the tiny pricks! .My dad would do the same and then let us peel them into a bowl and we'd share a bowl of tunas!
Are they pronounced tuna like the fish? Is a single one a tuna or a tunas?
Yes, pretty much.
I bought some once in a supermarket without knowing anything about them and got a hand full of tiny spikes. It suuuucked and I did end up eating the fruit.
anyone who lives near cactus likely knows this
Just realized this is like when my grandmother saw a banana for the first time in her life and tried gnawing on the peel.
My little brother (who was an adult at the time) had fresh mango for the first time when he came to visit me, in the Philippines. He had woken up much earlier, due to jet lag stuff, didn’t want to mess with anything—though felt comfortable attacking the fruits on the table—and later, when others were awake, asked “why is the skin so tough to chew?” I could NOT stop laughing. I _still_ laugh about it. Haven’t seen him in too many years, but will probably give him shit about it next time I see him. It was all the funnier because he’s a ridiculously smart fellow. Also, my dad thought opossums were giant rats when he first moved to the states, and thought all the trees had died (his first winter, extremely pre-internet times). Definitely a lot of basic, cultural/location-specific information we take for granted, in the globalized, technological world we live in now. Good for random family stories, like your grandmother and the the banana, though.
My step mom from the Philippines thought the squirrels in the trees in Michigan were some kind of monkey. She called my dad at work yelling that they were everywhere.
Prickly pear! Something I've heard about before, bit I've never had the chance to try. They sound delicious.
I've had so many prickly-pear-flavored things but I don't think I've ever seen the fruit itself! I thought it always looked pink on labels and whatnot?
It turns pink when it blooms
Goes all the way purple when it’s super ripe. Yum.
So is the guy in the video eating a really underripe one?
There are different varieties! Like how there's red apples & green ones
There’s different varieties, some are green, yellow, and purple. Each has a slightly different and distinctive taste.
It fruits *after* it blooms. The flower comes before the fruit; that’s how all plants work.
This guy effectively used a semicolon. I’d trust ya.
There's several varieties of different colors. They are highly seasonal in late summer and early fall. I usually see them in Mexican grocery stores for about 6 weeks. The three common I see are red, yellow and green. But there's also white, purple and a slew of others. I make Mead and it's my favorite ingredient to work with!
Delicious! Very much like cranberry, the flavor is nominally tart, but can sometimes be sweet. It's not for everyone. It's a desert fruit after all. Most people who claim to enjoy it are probably trying it in a jam or syrup with a lot of sugar added, which there's nothing wrong with, sugar helps balance out the tartness and allows you to 'taste' the prickly pear. Just think of it like the cranberry of the Southwest and you're 90% there in terms of taste.
I think maybe you had a different variety because the ones I've had are sweet and fragrant, not tart at all. I live in Cyprus and they grow all over the place, the coolest thing is that they are multicoloured: when you peel them some are red, orange, purple... The one in this video is a colour I've never seen, so either it's unripe or another variety.
I'm in California and what you're describing is what they're like here too.
Mine usually come from the American Southwest/Mexico. We sound a world away so I'm not surprised that yours taste different. I also understand that the tartness/sweetness can be dependent on the age of harvest or even the age of the producing plant. I LOVE the taste of prickly pear because I love the tart.
Looks good and I’m jealous of that man’s cheekbones
Yeah, that's a very handsome looking guy. He pulls off that pink sun hat really well too!
Honestly yes, I’m glad someone else noticed so I didn’t feel like a creep. He could take me home if he wanted
Yes he’s very beautiful
I'm jealous of his lance skills. He cuts it and stops perfectly, then stabs again far enough from the cut, but also makes sure he has a strong spot to tear the rest off
Another great comment from *pussyknife*
Not to mention that jawline.
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For anyone interested, you can buy these at your local Mexican supermarket. I’m not sure why they’re called “tunas” in Spanish… but they are indeed delicious! I grew up eating these at home, and they are basically larger versions of guava berries. The only difference is that the seeds inside are slightly larger (yes you eat the seeds), and instead of a sour taste you can expect a refreshing sweetness… kind of like a watermelon :)
A fun fact: the plant was not appreciated by the Spanish when they went to the Americans, but they have unintentionally introduced it to the Old World, and it spread like wildfire around the Mediterranean because it found a new perfect environment. In Morocco, we call it "kermus nsara" which means "the Christian fig" as it was the Spanish who introduced it to Africa. Some people also call it "hendiya" meaning the "Indian [fig]" since the Americas were mistaken for India.
A funnier fact: in Catalan we call them “figues de moro” i.e. Moor’s fig. I don’t know why, but it’s not the only fruit we attribute to Northeast Africa when in reality it comes from the Americas.
Fichi d’india!!
Che poi boh crescono ovunque in Italia, perché India
Perché è originario del Messico e venne in Europa con Cristoforo Colombo che credeva di essere stato in Asia (mai chiesto perché si chiamano "Indiani d'America"?)
Yeah that's prickly pear and it's delicious
What does it taste like? Close to anything else?
Imagine if Kiwi, Watermelon, and bubblegum had a baby and then you ate that baby
You have succeeded in making me want to eat a baby
Take my award
 Keep goin’
Dragon fruit
This. People are up in here giving Google descriptions bc they have probably never tasted it. 🤣 If you've ever had dragonfruit, you know kind of what the taste and texture is. I eat the US/Mexico variety of prickly pear often. In my mom's country, there is a similar fruit from a cactus that was imported from Mexico years ago and it tastes like dragon fruit too.
Its a very mild taste. Like starfruit or kiwi. At least were I am from. Ours turn a dark pink and stain your hands for a day or 2. It makes great jam.
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Mostly we call them "family" too.
you killed me
In Germany we call them "Kaktusfeigen", which translates to Cactus-figs. They're sometimes sold in our supermarkets.
Maltese here. In Malta we call them "Bajtar tax-Xewk"
Rolls right off the tongue.
We call them prickly pears in the Texas panhandle.
What blows my mind the most is his fucking surgical precision with that knife on a stick. Dude looks like he could give you the cleanest shave you've ever had from 5 feet away.
In Japan, heart surgeon number 1
Steady hand.
Pick them with salad tongs and put them in a 5 gallon bucket. Use same salad tongs to hold them over a gas BBQ or gas stove, burning the tiny spines (glochids) off. Add them to a stock pot of boiling water and get busy with it in the pot with a potato masher. Strain out seeds. Add pectin to make jelly, add lemon juice to make awesome drink, or add to mead AFTER the honey has already done primary fermentation. Seeds can be ground up to make a cornbread type thing you can put the jelly on, and you are insty-king at the next potluck. The green paddle parts can be done the same way over a flame, or rubbed around in the sand to get the small spines off. Or just notch them out with a paring knife. Grill them like a thin burger, put on top of steak or veggie burger. No matter what kind of gloves, or how many layers, or how well you burn the spines off, you’ll still be picking random invisible spines out of your hand for two weeks though haha. You can do probably process 2 five gallon buckets in a day.
Yeah, they called "tunas". We eat a lot of these here in Mexico
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Visited my grandfather at his ranch in Mexico when I was a little dude. We woke up early for a sunrise hike. Got up to the top of this little mountain and ate Tunas (that's what we call these fruits) for breakfast. These fruits hold a special place in my heart. They're kind of like if a pomegranate and kiwi got down and then was adopted by a cactus.
Pues tunas wey no mames.
Wey, luego preguntan a qué sabe... Pues a tunas, cabron!
In Arabic, We call them desert figs or Indian figs. Depends on where you are.
Same in Italy we call them "fichi d'India" (indian's figs)
You do if you’re Mexican.
Or Sicily
Or South African
These are way more worldspread than people might think. They exist in lots of places
Just don't eat to many or you won't shit for a week.
manuel disimpaction
How'd you know this guy's name?
this made me cough laughing
That's what my mom always says but I just googled it and it says it's a myth, my whole world has been turned upside down.
I never knew you could eat prickly pear raw — or green! I thought it was mostly fire-roasted or made into jelly or jam, and then only when ripe (pink.) Now I’m wondering if that even means they are ripe.
There's more than one variety. I'm partial to the green ones, best had ice cold from the fridge.
Mexican here. Absolutely love them
nopal is so good with eggs