Strange Fruit

[yurodivy84.livejournal.com]

Another barely-relevant question:

A (Russian) friend of mine gave me several dark-orange (nearly-red) fruits from a Polish shop somewhere around here. They looked almost exactly like tomatoes (to me), but when eaten, they were extremely soft, juicy, and were somewhat sweet. They were quite good. She told me that they were a common fruit in Russia and Eastern Europe. I've never seen such a fruit before in my entire life-- though I've heard second-hand that they even grow in South America.

What is their name in English, or Russian?

Comments

[branwen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a persimmon (http://healthsciences.columbia.edu/dept/ps/2008/photos/persimmon.jpg). I don't know if they grow in Scotland, but they grow here in America--I see trees of them in peoples yards, especially where I am in California. I'm not particularly fond of them, but I don't really dislike them, either.

[astraea2728.livejournal.com]

Yea I've seen lots of persimmons in Calif. My grandma used to give them to me... I never would've thought that they'd be common in Russia.

[aquamarinka.livejournal.com]

Хурма?

[baby-rhino.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's what I thought of - must be хурма :) I don't like it, but many people do. There are quite large brown oval pits in it, right?
(only it's usually rather orange than red)

[myrrh-phinehas.livejournal.com]

хурма это, my dear!

[myrrh-phinehas.livejournal.com]

или королёк

[wildest.livejournal.com]

что не более как сорт хурмы:)

[oryx_and_crake]

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[oryx_and_crake]

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[myrrh-phinehas.livejournal.com]

ваще-то чувак сам попросил название на русском

[oryx_and_crake]

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[dvanoltri.livejournal.com]

Хурма (Khurma), don't know in English)

[ex-roumor.livejournal.com]

иф итс лайгхт инсайд зен итс хурма. бат иф итс дарк зен королёк.

[yurodivy84.livejournal.com]

Затс зе страйнджест риплай айв эвер гот!

[ex-roumor.livejournal.com]

енджой )

[ex-roumor.livejournal.com]

http://images.google.ru/images?hl=ru&q=%D1%85%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0&btnG=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA+%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BA&gbv=2

[basile.livejournal.com]

O-o-ops! Size? Like an apple? A plum? A cherry?
A tangerine? A persimmon?
The last one:

[basile.livejournal.com]

Having an "astringent taste"? (sorry this word is from a translator)
Yes? A persimmon exactly.

[http://users.livejournal.com/celsium_/]

in russian - Хурма.

Size

[bashnya7.livejournal.com]

It's like an apple or a tomato.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

You've never encountered persimmons in America?

[branwen.livejournal.com]

yurodivy84 is from the UK.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

They should be present there as well.

[yurodivy84.livejournal.com]

Yes they are-- in Polish shops

[khathi.livejournal.com]

What type they sell -- astringent or non-astringent ones? Because I notice that in Europe and Russia astringent types are more popular, but they are hardly palatable until VERY ripe and soft. But in Asia the other type is more in use, which can be eaten while still pretty hard, like apples.

[yurodivy84.livejournal.com]

but when eaten, they were extremely soft, juicy, and were somewhat sweet. They were quite good.

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

They're fairly common here (Canada) but are considered exotic; and many people here are afraid of/uninterested in trying new fruits/vegetables

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Well, that's interesting. Persimmons were never rare or exotic in Europe and Asia (they are, actually, native to Southern Europe and Central Asia), so it's interesting to hear that somebody can consider them unusual...

Online forums are more helpful when read

[yurodivy84.livejournal.com]

How would perceptions of them in Canada be related to their (lack of) rarity in Europe and Asia?

Re: Online forums are more helpful when read

[khathi.livejournal.com]

I just got a perception thet culturally Canada is rarher close to Europe, so such poipular fruit uoght to be known there more widely.

Re: Online forums are more helpful when read

[yurodivy84.livejournal.com]

The US are also supposed to be culturally rather close to Europe, yet they have no idea what blackcurrants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackcurrant) (or any other sort of currant, even) are.

[vargtimmen.livejournal.com]

You might want to change the subject of this post, ba ha ha.