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11 November 2007
Do you eat the peel of a Kiwi fruit?→[More:]I eat them peel and all. For me it is the fruit equivalent of eating a mouse. So, I just imagine I'm an owl or something and eat them whole.
I eat them with a grapefruit spoon, or in the parlance of Lewis Carrol, a "runcible" spoon. Then I toss the peel. In the general direction of eekacat and jessamyn.
My boyfriend has a hilarious technique. He cuts off the tip from the narrow end of a kiwi, and then through a combination of sucking/squeezing eats all the innards through the hole. He might eat 4 or 5 kiwi at once, leaving all these wrinkled brown things. He calls it 'necrotizing'. And yes, I do believe he now relishes it because I think it bizarre.
His (and by default my) other favourite bizarro fruit eating technique is to cut a watermelon in half and just go at with a big spoon. We used to eat papayas this way when we were backpacking in India and had two spoons, and one knife between us. It was a bit tidier on a bus to let all the juices pool in the centre of the fruit.
In theory I eat the peel too, but then my tongue gets all weird and scratchy after about one kiwi. So then I resort to a spoon and discarding the peels.
Until a couple years ago, I never knew you could eat the peel. A friend of mine and I were in my kitchen, and as we were talking, he casually grabbed a kiwi, washed it, and bit into it. I was shocked, until he made me try it. I gingerly did so, and was pleasantly surprised. You'd think that the fuzz would be too fuzzy, but it's not, and I enjoy the tartness of the skin. So now I just slice and eat.
For those of you who think it's disgusting, don't knock it till you try it!
Kiwi fruit taste funny to me. Like a metalic golden delicious apple aftertaste. As a result I do not eat them unless accompanied by other fruit. I had not previously been aware that eating the skin were an option. I am not sure that it will improve the taste for me.
I never eat the peel. I have a fabulous peeler I bought at Sur La Table a few years ago which peels kiwis with barely any effort. Why would anyone like to eat the peel? It's disgusting.
typewriter: in my drinking days, I once went to a summer party where someone had injected a watermelon with vodka (lots of it) and put it in the fridge until it was icy cold. Best. Watermelon. Ever.
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