Bo-Jangles

Maybe persistence is the key; like with olives you can actually teach yourself to like them.

Once you get past a certain number you might suddenly go from hating them and become a Feeeeejoa addict.

jmh

To be honest, part of the pleasure is that they are straight from the tree. If I was buying fruit at a greengrocers I would probably pick something else. I remember having a kiwifruit tree in the garden. We used to call them Chinese Goosberries in those days. I use to eat them all the time, but rarely buy them because I find them a bit flavourless.

BEVS

I think loo rolls are on special at New World.

scrubbedexpat094

A friend of ours offered me some the a couple of days ago, I declined not very politely. I've promised to bring him some germolene back from our trip to the UK .

One of our neighbours has planted a bloomin' feijoa tree next to our fence I spent ages 'posting' the damn things back to their side on wednesday

jmh

Do you live near a busy road? Bag them up and put a sign up saying $1, with a tin honesty box. Might make a bit of money. Near primary schools are good spots. They price them at $1.99 a bag here but I think that's being greedy!

nikkijane88

I have also now officially tried one. It ended up in the bin... Not without my workmate recording the whole process first! Partly had a taste I could like, but the other half had too much of a perfume taste!

Hazelnut

I tried them when over there as we were staying with a friend and I asked her what was unique to NZ. I could take or leave them, they tasted a bit like the very old fashioned Parma Violets sweets to me. That's showing my age, anyone else remember them? If free and fresh off a tree in the garden I'd eat them but I'm not sure I'd go out purposefully to buy them.

The one that was truly gross for me was a prickly something. Dang, forgot the name. Supposed to taste like a lemony cucumber, yellow on the outside and looks like a prickled, inflated puffer fish. Truly icky, we both managed half a teaspoon each to taste it and that was it.

Stormer999

Germoline is for external use only.....NOT to be digested....so who are these bloody wierdoes eating the stuff....

Bo-Jangles

Love Parma Violets and Floral Gums (if anyone remembers those) but still can't take to the Feeeeejoa; someone once suggested to me that they were nicer if cooked as an addition to apples in crumble and such like. Tried that and didn't like it either, seemed such a total waste of perfectly good apple crumble too.

Pom_Chch

Feijoa's I could take or leave. However a bar of Whittakers Marlborough caramel sea salt chocolate and a cheeky Hawke's Bay Syrah and I'm anyone's

scrubbedexpat094

I'm happy posting them back to next door. I intend to get the shears out this weekend and cut off the over - hanging branches. They will also be posted back .

scrubbedexpat094

I like Parma Violets too but feijoas

Bo-Jangles

Never mind, soon enough we'll be leaving Feeeeejoas for dust and moving swiftly on to the next of the seasonal fruit events - you can look forward to filling yer boots with Persimmons.

scrubbedexpat094

Persimmons/sharon fruit are reasonably palatable compared to feijoas. Don't feel the need to buy them though. There'll be loads of those yam things in the shops soon too

Still if it all gets too much you can always stick a canned asparagus stalk on a piece of buttered white bread (please do remove the crust first, we have standards you know ) wrap it up and serve ....et voila!

Also with

BEVS

Not from my tree, they're not. Mine are old fashioned & lethal.

I've seen many a visitor happily reach & chomp on a soft persimmon of ours , only to find they have numbed their own lips and are rendered speechless with a gob full of something rather nasty.

The only time to eat those is if on an episode of survivor or to wait for enternally for that moment when the inside is completely ugh mush and then risk it.

We leave them for the white eyes who get a bit tiddly pom on them when over ripe.