Best food name. Ever.

[singlemalt]

"Kumquat."

hee hee.

[mousey1]

Yes, 'kumquat" does tend to roll off the tongue and ring in the ear in a humourous fashion.

I like "persimmon".

Some people act like they have a persimmon quashed up their butts. No bearing on the fruit's name itself really, I just find that to be a rather apropos visual. I think President Bush may have a persimmon quashed up his ass and if someone were good enough to remove it perhaps he could manage to speak a little more succinctly or succulently. Just a thought. Succulent is a grand word!

Sorry to sully your "Best food name. Ever." thread with political reference and innuendo.

Now, innuendo, that's a good word, don't you think? Innuendo.

Kiwi's cute tho, no?

[stilltrucking]

The name Kiwi was a stroke of marketing genuis. I lost the url for this.

EATEN A KIWI LATELY?
Kiwifruit, Chinese gooseberry (Actinidia deliciosa)

ACTINIDIACEAE,Actinidia Family

Back in the 1960s--if you were living, that is--you would not have found (Actinidia deliciosa, formerly A. chinensis) at your grocery store. This has been a fairly recent arrival from eastern Asia but via Australia and New Zealand. An enterprising business woman invented the name kiwifruit and then imported these to U.S. markets with an advertising blitz that ensured her success. Now it is cultivated closer to home, and has become a popular regular in our stores. Its flavor is similar to a strawberry, and its bright green color certainly is a selling point for this sweet fruit.

I been felling like a Rutabaga lately.

[Traveller13]

Kumquat sounds like an interstellar race out of star trek.
I tasted some once, they taste really acid. Does anyone know anthing it could be accompanied with (an exotic recipe, just add sugar, ...?)
There's a very local band called rutabaga.


I like the name
cauliflower
the way it rythms and flows at the same time, the way it's balanced
cAUliflOWer
like passiflora, but without the dissonant ss or percutant p which cuts the flow.

The Chinese cauliflower is a beaut
http://static.flickr.com/1/1114706_9217 ... 1102164822
Cosmic version:


Other possible subjects of reflection:

An osage orange (I don't think you can eat those):






Let's make a soup!

[mousey1]

Well, sometimes I feel like a kumquat

Sometimes I don't!

I never feel like a cauliflower or rutabaga

but I often feel like a persimmon

and while I've never tasted one

I presume they are all pinched and spicey and oogey!

Me to a t



ps: this is my version of soup...word soup...not very tastey but it will fill the gap.

[stilltrucking]

Pomegranate

Delicious and messy fun to eat
Such a bloody mess.








The Inscribed Ivory Pomegranate
from the "House of the Lord"

http://www.ancientneareast.net/pomegranate.html

[lenny]

Pomegranate, actually known as anar in its native lands actually has a special technique for eating and when done in this sectional manner gives luscious mouthfuls of bursting flavor. I like palak paneer (cheese and spinach in India). Cherry cobbler has a nice ring to it in my ears. Gosh, don't get me started on foods.

lenny

[stilltrucking]

a special technique for eating

Thanks for the tip. I will check it out. I kind of thought there must be a better way.

I have not figured out artichokes either. Seems like a heck of a lot of work for a little bit of delicious. I mean the leaves not the hearts.

This discussion brings to mind a character from The Magician of Lublin the phrase escapes me something about people preoccupied with the pleasures of the flesh being over weight?

Rambles god how I ramble
Yeah don’t get me started on food

Traveller thanks for the pictures.
A cauliflower Christmas tree!!

[firsty]

best food name ever:

wowie. (woah-ee) this means "water" to my 2-yr-old son.

if he hasnt had enough sugar yet, we give him flavored water. this is:

soopwise wowie. surprise water.

but, really, nothing tops "meat."

everything that we want him to eat, we tell him it's "meat." his older brother is in on the plot. meat is spaghetti, broccoli, rice, bread. they are all merely different forms of meat. if it's not meat, surprise wowie or potato chips, he will simply stare you into submission, at which point it's best to simply hand him a kee-koo, which is a cookie.