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Article tldr: "Authorities were worried that tejocotes could carry highly destructive fruit flies into the States, threatening domestic orchards. Soon, there was a black market for the golden fruits, due to their rarity and the effort it took to bring them over the border."
https://pressreleases.cdfa.ca.gov/Home/PressRelease/62099064
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might like the YouTube channel "Weird Explorer". He's been traveling the world since 2012, attempting to taste every fruit. https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer
Definitely better than the Victorian explorer who wanted to eat one of every animal
RIP 99¢ Only Stores They always had tejocote, and at a great price. (Although not always fresh, which is the only way it was ever prohibited.)
I'm excited to try these! I love discovering new fruits. In the same vein -- is there any website that catalogues all the fruits you can buy around the world? That documents all the varieties, together with which countries/states/cities you can find them in? When I travel, discovering new fruits is one of my favorite parts. Like when I discovered the custard apple [1] in Brazil, it blew my mind. And it would be reall…
RIP 99¢ Only Stores They always had tejocote, and at a great price. (Although not always fresh, which is the only way it was ever prohibited.)
Dollar stores still exist today. Dollar Tree is actually a gold mine of deals!
I'm excited to try these! I love discovering new fruits. In the same vein -- is there any website that catalogues all the fruits you can buy around the world? That documents all the varieties, together with which countries/states/cities you can find them in? When I travel, discovering new fruits is one of my favorite parts. Like when I discovered the custard apple [1] in Brazil, it blew my mind. And it would be reall…
I just popped in to ask the same question! I’ve been trying to find fresh lingonberries every Thanksgiving for years. You’d think that one could find anything in a city of this size, but >99% of it is just bodega bodega bodega
Is that fruit related to yeni dünya?
And no. It's more like an apple.
I'm excited to try these! I love discovering new fruits. In the same vein -- is there any website that catalogues all the fruits you can buy around the world? That documents all the varieties, together with which countries/states/cities you can find them in? When I travel, discovering new fruits is one of my favorite parts. Like when I discovered the custard apple [1] in Brazil, it blew my mind. And it would be reall…
Friend says these are called “pinha” in Brazil though goes by other names as well. Nh sounds like ny in English or n-tilde in Spanish.
IIRC pinha the fruit is not native to Brasil, but to the Indian sub-continent like so many other amazing tropical fruits.
I would suggest for anyone looking for novel fruits in the northeast of Brasil, check out "Ingá", the variety that has the nickname "ice cream bean"[1]
Is that fruit related to yeni dünya?
Yeni dünya (loquat in English, which comes from Chinese) is a completely different thing.
I'm excited to try these! I love discovering new fruits. In the same vein -- is there any website that catalogues all the fruits you can buy around the world? That documents all the varieties, together with which countries/states/cities you can find them in? When I travel, discovering new fruits is one of my favorite parts. Like when I discovered the custard apple [1] in Brazil, it blew my mind. And it would be reall…