We didn't know how to tell if it was ripe or not, but it felt really firm, so we left it to ripen.
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While waiting for it to ripen, my partner has been reading up on persimmons and making them a central part of many conversations.
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Facts I now know about persimmons: - they are a fruit (and not some relative of the tomato, which is what I thought) - people really like their gnarled trees - they can be astringent - they have a "pudding-like" interior - there are different kinds
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My partner went out with friends on Saturday and the first thing they said to me Sunday morning was that a store by us carries a different kind of persimmon than the one chilling on our counter
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My partner has also been reading up on different recipes
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For a while the leading recipe for them was persimmon bread. They told me this before I learned persimmons are fruit. So I spent many days low key disgusted.
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But now the leading recipe is an award-winning persimmon pudding by a teacher in Indiana
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PARTNER: I think I'll make this pudding! ME: I only really like chocolate pudding PARTNER: no it's like a cake ME: oh, so it's like British pudding PARTNER: yeah, in Indiana *acts like I'm the idiot here* ME:pic.twitter.com/zjBIZeN2CP
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they then proceeded to also show me a recipe for persimmon bread pudding, which was somehow different from cake pudding
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PARTNER: maybe I'll make both! ME: we only have one persimmon PARTNER: no I bought more ME: we haven't even tasted the first one PARTNER:pic.twitter.com/E0YCotzwyw
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this conversation happened on Sunday and we still haven't tasted the first one I don't even know where it is anymore
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they just went out to the store unchaperoned, pray for me
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ME: shouldn't we eat the persimmon? PARTNER: nah I'll make it into bread ME: but we don't know what it tastes like PARTNER: we'll taste it in the bread ME:pic.twitter.com/ZrdnV2ZudY
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they walked in on me updating this and proceeded to read the entire thread while chortling the chortle of someone who is exceptionally proud of their own antics
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oh no I completely forgot the most important part of this whole journey how neglectful how terrible how awful of me persimmons are also called possum apples
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persimmons taste like oranges if oranges could go stale
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They’re delicious btw. You just have to let them get squishy first.
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What are we talking about here exactly??




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Persimmons, silly.
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Sorry, I was confused. Wasn't sure of what you were referring to in letting it get squishy first.
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Well, one can never be 100% certain.
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I think it was pretty clear
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I feel like my mom just yelled at us.

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Sorry Malice....I apologize for actually having a sense of humor. I know some people that would surgically remove that stick from your ass at a very affordable rate.
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