Today I ate my first feijoa.
 

I am underwhelmed.

In the past I have avoided them because the enthusiasm that I have always seen the locals display towards them has made me suspicious.

I think that I might have been right all along.

My wife (who is a kiwi) insisted that we must plant a feijoa tree and says that the ones from our tree are not quite ripe enough yet but this now sounds like a hollow excuse.

I put this thread in the sheep-dip because I realise that this is a subject that can prompt a wide spectrum of opinions. It is all subjective anyway. ;)

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Now eat a Tamarillo (tree tomato)

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MrF loves them, I personally don't like eating germolene so steer well clear.

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They are a bit like Marmite, you either love them or loathe them. :rofl:

I despise them and find that it takes a certain constitution to like them. i.e. having been born here does seem to be a deciding factor. I despise them but possibly also a little bit of knowing when they are right to eat would help.

Like Bananas, Avocados and Kiwifruit you have a period of about four hours in their life cycle when they are perfect for eating - if they go one minute before or one minute past their peak they are vile. :rofl:

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I love them, but that might be because we had them as children. I tend to wait until they fall from the tree to eat them, otherwise you risk getting one that isn't ripe. I can see how they might be an acquired taste.

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MrF saw a lady on the train eat the whole thing, skin and all. just No or is that how you are supposed to eat them?

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Eat the whole thing? I've always sucked the middle out.

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Mr BEVS states he also just sucks the middle out.

However not to go near the things if one is into jogging.

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They've got a vanilla sweetness and a citrus kinda, 'tang' for want of a better description.

We've got a feijoa tree here in our back garden. I just pick the feijoas off the lawn when they fall & wonder what to do with them because I don't like them.

I'll ask my husband to take them to work so people who do like them can help themselves.

Same deal with the quince pears that we have. I saw a recipe for them once: boil them for 2 hours, then roast for 3 hours. That's a lot of aggravation for something I don't even like.

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Feijoa, tamarillo bloody awful. Mrs justcol (the new kiwi version) insists on eating them by the sack load
and takes any negative comment from me as a slanderous attack against the whole of kiwidom

Germalene bloody lovely (not to eat) just the smell alone instantly whisks me back to my childhood
and a thousand scuffed knees, scrawped elbows and kiss it betters from my mum

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Germalene ! That's it. That is exactly it!

Forget Tamarillos . Bleurgh. Quince? Why would you.

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Was reading this thread out to Mr Big Sticks yesterday and he thought this was the best description of eating feijoas.

Our neighbours planted a feijoa tree on the boarder of our garden and now we've got loads of the damn things on our lawn. Neither of us can stand the things.

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Eating the whole thing... Basically what I'll do with kiwi fruits 😂😂

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A few are falling off the tree every day now so I have persisted with trying them.

Sometimes (not all the time) the taste reminds me of cheap confectionery - the stuff that you think might should be bubblegum but can't be because it is too stiff.

What I can say so far is that I don't hate them although there is a long way to go before I start singing their praises.