I love kiwis, but they have to be ripe and soft, that's when they get sweet! I'd like to try soy or tofu. I have tried peanut butter Toffuti ice cream, it's delicious!

I love kiwi. I've bought them only once, they're so darn hard to peel. Little and soft and hairy. LOL

It may have been mango that caused my friend to get blisters around her mouth. There seems to be rules about eating next to the seeds or something? I don't know I've never gotten to try one but would like to. I've seen the salsa used on the cooking shows.

One summer I bought a new melon every time I went to the store. I love any kind of melon. It was interesting to cut open and see what was inside.

Kiwi's are great sliced and served with a LIGHT dusting of powdered sugar.

Now look for STAR Fruit!
You gotta try that, as well!

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I can't eat starfruit. I have kidney failure and theyt can cause me hallucinations! Yuck! But I bought a Carambola Starfruit to grow as a houseplant. I like to play with fire!

Kim, try cutting the kiwi fruit in two and scooping out the inside with a spoon.

As a matter of fact, I have tried something different and it took me quite awhile to do it. I ordered a bison burger at Ruby Tuesdays and it was delicious. Better than any burger I have ever eaten. I bought a pound of it at the Giant and made burgers at home without telling my husband and he really liked the taste of them. When I told him what he had just eaten he told me to get some more. Vique.

I like kiwifruit *with* things. But I don't like it that much period; its texture is too weird.

But mangoes--oh, my goodness!

I think when I retire, I want to buy a house in Florida that has a mango tree in the backyard.

There is nothing as good as standing under a tree eatting its ripe fruit. As a youngster we had a mango tree and a banana tree in our yard. I loved, loved, loved to eat really ripe mangos right off our tree. Like a good pear, it would melt in my mouth, drain down my cheeks and chin.
I seldom can find or even get a mango to be as sweet as they were right off the tree. Don't give up if they aren't quite what you expected. There has to be some good ones out there.

Mangos are called "Fruit of the gods" by many in Florida. I slice and cut away the peel they are deleious. a lady I worked with said the only way to eat them is naked while standing in the bathtub.
I buy them now in the supermarket. they are usually the imported fat red skinned. There is a mango slicer on the market but almost $20 which is a little too pricey for me right now.

Hmmm, star fruit. I'm not familiar with it. Wonder if we can get it here. I'll take a look.

We love bison meat. You are right Vique, the flavor is so good in the ground beef. It's so much lower in fat so that cuts back on the cholesterol too. Makes a wonderful chili.

We had a banana tree in the back yard when we lived in California. Our neighbor had a fig tree. I loved those ripe and right off the tree too. Yum! I've always wished I could have an avacado tree. I would be big as a barn. I love the things.

I didn't have a bit of trouble peeling the kiwi this morning. Don't expect to have one with the mango either, I hope. :)

Ohhhhh..... my favorite dessert is a sweet ripe mango sliced into a bowl with a big glob of french vanilla yoghurt on top.

There are so much more tropical fruits to try. If you're in Florida, try some Longan and get a tree. The fruits grow in bunches and the tree is low, not huge like the Mango tree. I'm planning to get a Longan tree this spring and maybe a star fruit tree too.

Just be careful about the mango skin and seed. You can get a really bad allergic reaction from them (touching or eating). I like my mangoes with a little bit of lemon or lime juice and some chili powder. I am friends with a bunch of hispanics and that's how they eat them. Yum!

I love any types of fresh fruit. Kiwis and Mangoes especially! I haven't had a fresh fig in ages!

This looks and sounds yummy!
Starfruit and kiwi dessert

Instructions:
Slice star fruit and kiwi fruit diagonally. Place 2 or 3 star fruit slices on each dessert plate. Top each with a kiwi fruit slice. Add a dollop of whipped cream (or thawed, frozen whipped topping) atop each fruit stack. Sprinkle with raspberries

Ya Ya - another one who loves kiwi, esp. with vanilla yogurt. Yum!

I hardly ever think to buy mangos, but they're good, too!

Enjoy, girlfriend!

I like to eat kiwi with a spoon; just slice the fruit in half and scoop out the contents with the spoon. DS will eat the skin too--he loves kiwi and chomps on it like a plum or apple.

I have been enjoying pumellos lately. Not sure of the spelling. They are very thick skinned and taste like sweet grapefruit. They don't need any sugar, which is what I put on grapefruit.

I've never been crazy about Kiwi but I do love Mango. Although Mango contains a few too many carbs for me to enjoy very often!
I love to try new foods. One of my favorite things to do when in a new town or country is to grocery shop. I could spend hours looking at different products.

You go girl!

My Dad started us eating "unusual" fruits at an early age. He was always bringing something unusual home. Now those fruits aren't so unusual or hard to come by anymore.

I love things like passion fruit - scoop the insides out and put on ice cream or warm custard but a good ripe passion fruit is hard to come by around here.

I did have my first fresh fig not too long ago. I usually eat dried figs but fresh figs are wonderful.

I love lychee fruit too and will buy a handful when I see them at the store.

I use starfruit mainly for a decoration only.

My Dad once brought home an ugli fruit and I remember it being good.

I don't think there is a fruit I don't like or haven't tried if it is available here.

Now there are some vegetables that I have never had or knowingly eaten. Jicama for one, or celery root. I like most vegetables too except for lima beans and okra but the okra dislike changed when Oshi who used to post here sent me a jar of the most delicious hot pickled okra. Wowweee.

I have tried all kinds of meats too some I would eat again some I wouldn't like squirrel and snake. I've eaten all the gamey meats like bison, venison, ostrich, wild boar, bear. I do like a good rabbit stew or roasted rabbit pieces as long as I don't have to cook it or see it being cooked. LOL

A teacher I had when I was in grade school brought in chocolate covered ants for us to try. Wouldn't eat another bug knowingly again though. LOLOL

Summer, try buying something new every week when you go shopping. You can always spit it out if you don't like it. LOL

Anne

Dang Anne, you make it all sound good. I do love okra, anyway you can fix it. Also lima beans, but had to acquire a taste for them. LOL

I just found out that there is little meat to this mango, it's mostly seed. Waaaa!

I, just today, hear a friend talk about the ugli fruit. I'll have to look for it. You're right, I need to stick my neck out (and tongue) and try more 'exotic' stuff!

I love mangos. At a plant swap last spring we had a mango tasting table. There a many varieties and folks were trying to decide which were their favs so they could buy a tree. Some are stringy. One of my friends has a star fruit tree in his yard and juices them. Yummy!
While in high school I in worked in our local privately owned grocery store. The produce manager went several times a week to Boston to get fresh fruit and veggies. I learned about red bananas, kiwi, ugli fruit (you are gonna love it) honeybell oranges and many others. I'm working on my own orchard. I'm even growing blueberries in pots on the screened patio and will be having blueberry pancakes soon. There is also a funny fruit called miracle fruit. It's a red berry that is so sweet that when you suck on a lime you think it was the sweetest fruit you've ever tasted!

I am not at all adventurous when it comes to trying new foods.
I get less so as I get older too. I don't care for Mangos, but they make a lovely tree. I'm not crazy about Kiwi either. I do love avacadoes tho....that's about as adventuresome as I get.

I love Kiwi and used to eat a lot of them~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~then one day after eating one i got very sick,barfing all over the place,barely made it to the bathroom.At first i didn't think it was the kiwi.Then a few days later i tried another,after just one spoonful my tongue swelled,my throat closed and i again began barfing.Reported this to my dr and she told me i had become allergic to them,and i havn't had one since and that was over 20 years ago.

Every year i'm tempted to try them again,but am afraid of the outcome.

So those of you that can eat them,enjoy them for me as well.I still love them,but from a distance.
kathi