A Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries
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A Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries
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#2I hate these clickbait-titles.
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#3First line of the article: Yaupon tea, a botanical cousin to yerba maté, is now almost unknown.
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#4This reminds me of the paw paw (not to be confused with the papaya which Australians call pawpaw) https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/15/550985844/th... It's a fruit that seems tropical, a close relative of the custard apple or sitaphal that tastes like a pina colada. Yet it grows natively all over the eastern US. It's so common that in many places it's every third tree in the forest.
I grew up in peak pawpaw country (Cincinnati), got a thorough outdoors education via boy scouts, and never learned about the existence of this incredible plant. Nobody knows about it! The day after I learned about it, I could walk a few feet into the woods in a park in the middle of the city, shake a tree and come out with tropical tasting fruit, and yet people walk by this tree every day oblivious. Mind-boggling.
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#5This reminds me of the paw paw (not to be confused with the papaya which Australians call pawpaw) https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/15/550985844/th... It's a fruit that seems tropical, a close relative of the custard apple or sitaphal that tastes like a pina colada. Yet it grows natively all over the eastern US. It's so common that in many places it's every third tree in the forest. I grew up in peak pawpa…
Pawpaw is available in every supermarket in Australia, maybe not all year round.
I’ve seen quite a few pawpaw trees in backyards, but it’s defi an under appreciated fruit here too.
Dried sugar dusted pawpaw is flipping amazing.
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#6I love both coffee and tea. Both caffeine drinks yet they taste nothing like one another. If it's a drink to have with food it has to be tea. For a waker upper it's coffee. At other times it's a toss up. I'd love to try this cassina be a while before we see it in Europe I'd imagine
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#7This reminds me of the paw paw (not to be confused with the papaya which Australians call pawpaw) https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/15/550985844/th... It's a fruit that seems tropical, a close relative of the custard apple or sitaphal that tastes like a pina colada. Yet it grows natively all over the eastern US. It's so common that in many places it's every third tree in the forest. I grew up in peak pawpa…
Pawpaw is available in every supermarket in Australia, maybe not all year round. I’ve seen quite a few pawpaw trees in backyards, but it’s defi an under appreciated fruit here too. Dried sugar dusted pawpaw is flipping amazing.
I loved dried pawpaw as a kid (growing up in Aus) but never had it fresh. Is it good?
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#8This reminds me of the paw paw (not to be confused with the papaya which Australians call pawpaw) https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/15/550985844/th... It's a fruit that seems tropical, a close relative of the custard apple or sitaphal that tastes like a pina colada. Yet it grows natively all over the eastern US. It's so common that in many places it's every third tree in the forest. I grew up in peak pawpa…
Pawpaw is available in every supermarket in Australia, maybe not all year round. I’ve seen quite a few pawpaw trees in backyards, but it’s defi an under appreciated fruit here too. Dried sugar dusted pawpaw is flipping amazing.
That's a totally different pawpaw! The fruit that Australians call pawpaw, Americans call papaya. Edited original post to avoid confusion
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#9I hate these clickbait-titles.
All the info is in the tagline, and when you visit the story through their site the tagline is presented before you need to click. Maybe the title should change for content aggregators, though I don't see including the name dramatically changing someone's interest in the topic.
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#10I love both coffee and tea. Both caffeine drinks yet they taste nothing like one another. If it's a drink to have with food it has to be tea. For a waker upper it's coffee. At other times it's a toss up. I'd love to try this cassina be a while before we see it in Europe I'd imagine
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