Here is some wholesome content for you today. Neither myself nor my partner has ever had a persimmon. So last week we bought one. (cont'd)
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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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I've had persimmons in curry before and they're great. Also, it's really easy to spell it "permissions" which can really change things, depending on the sentence.
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Persimmons are called caqui (pronounced KAH-kee) in Portuguese.
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If you do shellfish, there’s a shrimp-persimmon soup that’s amaaazinghttp://www.innatthecrossroads.com/shrimp-and-persimmon-soup/ …
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