When travelling overseas, you encounter many strange foods. Most of these are exotic cooked dishes, but often you find strange fruits as well. Thus Thailand has the mangosteen and Malaysia has the durien.
Mozambique has the Chibwete, which sounds like a mythical beast rather than a fruit. Check out this picture of it:
Looks more like an explosive device than a fruit, doesn’t it?
Read more at Lingamish.
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May 25, 2007 at 11:11 am
Benjamin
MANGOSTEEN!
http://jejinternet.blogspot.com/2006/05/mangosteen-queen-of-fruits.html
jej
May 25, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Peter
Very cool. I do like learning about new types of fruit.
May 26, 2007 at 7:13 am
markk
Mangosteen indeed. I was in Thailand doing English teaching, and we played some game which involved naming our favourite fruits. So it was “mango, pineapple, mangosteen …” and that, friends, is how I found out about mangosteen!
Can’t remember what it tastes like anymore! It’s been too long.
May 29, 2007 at 6:36 am
nowg net
I guess you are not from a tropical climate, because for me it’s “just” a fruit, raspberry looks a lot more exotic
May 29, 2007 at 7:30 am
markk
Indeed. There is probably a part of the world that think bananas and oranges are very strange. I wonder where?
June 6, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Timsta
I wonder where you can buy these from in Australia? I want one!