You should have waited until tomorrow to open them up, as a PRESENT to yourself.
The akebia is edible, yes. But you've left them too long on the vine, uncle. They are all dried out, mere husks. A ripe akebia looks like the inside of a passion fruit, although the taste is nowhere near as interesting. It is like eating a pack of tiny tasteless eyeballs.
My yankeedoodlesweetheart has no sense of smell. As a result, taste is compromised as well. Never EVER ask someone who cannot smell or taste to eat some passion fruit, no matter how delicious it is to you. Because nausea and eyeballs are the result.
I didn't so much leave them knowingly on the vine, as discover their existence once they were past their prime. But I'm afraid I would have been afraid, just the same. Like I mentioned above, they have a bit of a Look! Isn't that Ophelia floating yonder? Or at least her arm? vibe, and they're creepily rubbery. The black seeds were very much like pomegranate seeds. In appearance.
I have long suspected (and belligerently argued) that the five (or six) senses thing is as unimaginative as it is inaccurate. First of all, I'd insist that taste and smell are one and the same, two aspects of the same experience, and both are really just touch in disguise anyhow, because unless those vapors and particles are landing on tissues, ain't no taste or smell. I think we have one sense, and a tendency to be overwhelmed by experience unless we break it down into manageable parts. Experience-by-number. Stay in the lines.
Having averred that, I have never tasted a durian fruit because I have smelled one. Much as I have never tasted the
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exciting!! reminds me of when I found my first ground plum off a Astragalus crassicarpus. Do they akebia seeds overwinter? Next year will a rescue mission ensue to cut you free of the akebia quinata?
You know, I dunno if the seeds overwinter; the vines are really zone 5, so they struggle to survive through our winters. That same thing keeps them from being kudzu-like, and spreading crazily. I have Virginia creeper for that. Eeeeek.
I have never heard of Astragalus crassicarpus. It sounds cranky. Even though it's plummy.
Sort of like a moth torso too, no? Big juicy lunar larval thing? Maybe?
That paint upsets me too, punster. I scraped eight million square feet of it of of my deck last year; all except the (pictured) steps. I was supposed to do the steps this year, but I was too busy playing with copper and planting stuff. I am the grasshopper, and the ants are going to come kick my ass someday soon.
Maybe I can bribe them with some dessicated akebia fruit. Them ants like fruits.
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But they're really lovely once you get past the initial revulsion, like a lot of things: shar pei puppies, genitalia, jellyfish. You know.
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Plus, the squirrels took a bite out of each one before I found 'em. Not fond of the squirrel lips.
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You should have waited until tomorrow to open them up, as a PRESENT to yourself.
The akebia is edible, yes. But you've left them too long on the vine, uncle. They are all dried out, mere husks. A ripe akebia looks like the inside of a passion fruit, although the taste is nowhere near as interesting. It is like eating a pack of tiny tasteless eyeballs.
My yankeedoodlesweetheart has no sense of smell. As a result, taste is compromised as well. Never EVER ask someone who cannot smell or taste to eat some passion fruit, no matter how delicious it is to you. Because nausea and eyeballs are the result.
Have you ever tasted a durian?
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I didn't so much leave them knowingly on the vine, as discover their existence once they were past their prime. But I'm afraid I would have been afraid, just the same. Like I mentioned above, they have a bit of a Look! Isn't that Ophelia floating yonder? Or at least her arm? vibe, and they're creepily rubbery. The black seeds were very much like pomegranate seeds. In appearance.
I have long suspected (and belligerently argued) that the five (or six) senses thing is as unimaginative as it is inaccurate. First of all, I'd insist that taste and smell are one and the same, two aspects of the same experience, and both are really just touch in disguise anyhow, because unless those vapors and particles are landing on tissues, ain't no taste or smell. I think we have one sense, and a tendency to be overwhelmed by experience unless we break it down into manageable parts. Experience-by-number. Stay in the lines.
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I have never heard of Astragalus crassicarpus. It sounds cranky. Even though it's plummy.
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The red paint I find distressing.
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That paint upsets me too, punster. I scraped eight million square feet of it of of my deck last year; all except the (pictured) steps. I was supposed to do the steps this year, but I was too busy playing with copper and planting stuff. I am the grasshopper, and the ants are going to come kick my ass someday soon.
Maybe I can bribe them with some dessicated akebia fruit. Them ants like fruits.
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