What the hell's going on with Papaya?

[oxcoug]

Sometimes I get one and slice it up and it tastes like some kind of foreshadowing of heaven.

Other times I get one and slice it up and it tastes like BYU71's feet (don't ask me how I know).

Can this *&%^ing fruit show a little respect and add some consistency to its game?

[Surfah]

Sometimes I get one and slice it up and it tastes like some kind of foreshadowing of heaven.

Other times I get one and slice it up and it tastes like BYU71's feet (don't ask me how I know).

Can this *&%^ing fruit show a little respect and add some consistency to its game?

I'd blame the picker and not the fruit.

[Katy Lied]

Get the ones from Hawaii, not the ones from South America.

[Surfah]

Get the ones from Hawaii, not the ones from South America.

They're impossible to find on the mainland. Or at least on the east coast. All I ever see are the giant ones.

[Lost Student]

I don't know what the difference is between Hawaiian papayas and S. America ones, but I ate a lot of S. America ones on my mission and never had one I didn't like. I think my favorite fruits are passion fruit and papaya.

[MarkGrace]

I am extremely unpicky (is that a word?) eater. When people ask me what I don't like, the only thing I can come up with is eggplant and papaya. I can tolerate either, but I really just don't care for them.

[Portland Ute]

Papaya smells like a dirty old shoe.

I haven't found one I like.

[TripletDaddy]

I never got into papaya. And it does have a rank stench to it.

[Slim]

Dominican Republic jugos de lechosa are one of my favorite things in the world. I'll post the recipe when I get home and I'm not on the phone.

[Commando]

I had a very different idea of what papaya would taste like based on my ignorant bias. The first time someone cut one up for me in Guate, I was trying to figure out a polite way to inform them that it had gone bad. I can't figure out how people first started eating it.

[creekster]

I had a very different idea of what papaya would taste like based on my ignorant bias. The first time someone cut one up for me in Guate, I was trying to figure out a polite way to inform them that it had gone bad. I can't figure out how people first started eating it.

It's like my grandma always said: "if you're hungry enough, you'll eat it."

[BigFatMeanie]

I had a very different idea of what papaya would taste like based on my ignorant bias. The first time someone cut one up for me in Guate, I was trying to figure out a polite way to inform them that it had gone bad. I can't figure out how people first started eating it.

Green, unripe papaya is good in salads. Very common in Thailand. Ripe papaya is second only to durian fruit in it's foulness - nasty nasty nasty!

[wuapinmon]

If you serve in Costa Rica, you have to learn to eat papaya. I can say, with 700+ of experience, that about 90% of papaya tastes like Ole71's feet, and the other 10% is heaven.

I keep eating it, hoping that I'll get to heaven.

[Joe Public]

Dominican Republic jugos de lechosa are one of my favorite things in the world. I'll post the recipe when I get home and I'm not on the phone.

Morir soñando and batidas de níspero are my two Dominican favorites. Lechosa, not as much. Is condensed milk a popular papaya topping outside of the Carribean?

[falafel]

Morir soñando and batidas de níspero are my two Dominican favorites. Lechosa, not as much. Is condensed milk a popular papaya topping outside of the Carribean?

Cuchi frito is my favorite dominican dish.