Originally posted by Rupert I love persimmons! Never heard of that idea, but it sounds good. My first experience with persimmons was not so good...nope, not at all. Iwas around 10 and me and my two cousins were roaming the woods when we came across a grove of native persimmons.....still green. We were going to the Dime Store (remember those?) later that day and each of us had a little cash. We started betting on who could eat the most green persimmons. Never been so sick in my entire life....running at both ends, cramps, rolling on the ground in pain and misery. We were sick for two days and never made it to the Dime Store.
If that bothers you, drop them into a blender and make yourself an oyster smoothie. Goes down easy and you get to see all those pretty colors!
Liquefy with some of that Boones Apple mystery juice and you might even have a marketable product?
I gave my grandfather some of the hard persimmon when he was about 98. He did not recognise it, asked, so I said 'persimmon'. He said it could not be because 'persimmons are only good for throwing at people'. Every once in a while he would come out with some really laddish comment like that.
I had not seen that Boone's stuff before and it seems it would be good to give it a dodge. When I was young there was a song on TV "Boone was a man, yes a big man".
I was surprised yesterday. In my local Waitrose yesterday I saw a Cooper's Sparkling Ale. Came a long way!