[HN Gopher] Christmas Punch Requires a Formerly Forbidden Fruit
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       Christmas Punch Requires a Formerly Forbidden Fruit
        
       Author : juanplusjuan
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2024-12-25 17:18 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | dlcarrier wrote:
       | RIP 99C/ Only Stores
       | 
       | They always had tejocote, and at a great price. (Although not
       | always fresh, which is the only way it was ever prohibited.)
        
         | myvoiceismypass wrote:
         | Dollar stores still exist today. Dollar Tree is actually a gold
         | mine of deals!
        
           | ajb wrote:
           | They are all over London, although not in dollars obviously.
           | In one street there is a 99p store, and then a couple of
           | doors down, a 98p store.
        
       | tetris11 wrote:
       | Is that fruit related to yeni dunya?
        
         | cess11 wrote:
         | Tejocotes is a hawthorn, yeni dunya is a plum. I'm guessing
         | they differ in acidity and pectin content.
        
         | sureIy wrote:
         | * loquat
         | 
         | And no. It's more like an apple.
        
       | ctxc wrote:
       | Article tldr:
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       | "Authorities were worried that tejocotes could carry highly
       | destructive fruit flies into the States, threatening domestic
       | orchards. Soon, there was a black market for the golden fruits,
       | due to their rarity and the effort it took to bring them over the
       | border."
        
         | raldi wrote:
         | Thank you, I came here to post this exact piece of buried
         | clickbait antidote.
        
         | pkaye wrote:
         | We just had some medfly detected in our country in California
         | and the county has doing weekly treatments around our
         | neighborhood.
         | 
         | https://pressreleases.cdfa.ca.gov/Home/PressRelease/62099064
        
       | crazygringo wrote:
       | I'm excited to try these! I love discovering new fruits.
       | 
       | In the same vein -- is there any website that catalogues all the
       | fruits you can buy around the world? That documents all the
       | varieties, together with which countries/states/cities you can
       | find them in?
       | 
       | When I travel, discovering new fruits is one of my favorite
       | parts. Like when I discovered the custard apple [1] in Brazil, it
       | blew my mind.
       | 
       | And it would be really cool to have a list of all the fruits you
       | could buy when you travel to make sure you don't miss any. Or the
       | fact that the article says tejocotes are sold in NYC -- when I've
       | never come across them -- makes me wonder what other fruits are
       | here that I also had no idea?
       | 
       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annona_squamosa
        
         | tiagod wrote:
         | You might like the YouTube channel "Weird Explorer". He's been
         | traveling the world since 2012, attempting to taste every
         | fruit.
         | 
         | https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer
        
           | KineticLensman wrote:
           | Definitely better than the Victorian explorer who wanted to
           | eat one of every animal
        
             | diggan wrote:
             | Fast-forward 100 years into the future, 20 years after we
             | discovered that also plants were sentient and have feelings
             | too, and some news corporation will run a story about how
             | crazy the 2000s were, since people were openly eating fruit
             | and seemingly people cheered them on.
        
         | 1propionyl wrote:
         | It's not as uncommon here as tejocotes, but I'm always chuffed
         | to find good looking and not overripe mangosteens at farmers
         | markets or specialty produce suppliers.
         | 
         | They're more common to find at Asian markets, where they often
         | come in mesh bags of a half dozen, but my experience is they're
         | often overripe and their fruit has become slightly translucent
         | and mushy.
         | 
         | You can identify a ripe mangosteen by a rich reddish purple
         | exterior that gives slightly when pressed. If it's darkened to
         | a blackish purple and is very hard to the touch, it is probably
         | over-ripened.
         | 
         | They are very rare at farmer's markets though. Growing them in
         | the USA in most places requires a greenhouse as they need a
         | tropical climate: year round high humidity and a minimum
         | temperature of ~55-60F.
        
         | mixmastamyk wrote:
         | Friend says these are called "pinha" in Brazil though goes by
         | other names as well. Nh sounds like ny in English or n-tilde in
         | Spanish.
        
         | Eric_WVGG wrote:
         | > the article says tejocotes are sold in NYC... makes me wonder
         | what other fruits are here that I also had no idea?
         | 
         | I just popped in to ask the same question! I've been trying to
         | find fresh lingonberries every Thanksgiving for years. You'd
         | think that one could find anything in a city of this size, but
         | >99% of it is just bodega bodega bodega
        
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