Re: Pandanus edibility
- Subject: Re: Pandanus edibility
- From: J* D*
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:57:17 -0700 (PDT)
--- Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> Cheryl Renshaw wrote:
> >
> > > Characteristic fruits of pandanus are a round
> aggregate of red or yellow
> > > berries as much a 12 inches across, looking
> quite a lot like a
> > > pineapple, but as far as I can ascertain they
> are not edible.
> >
> > In Hawaii, another local name for screwpine is
> "tourist pineapple" and it is
> > described as "edible, if you're really desperate."
> >
> > Supposedly, the ubiquitous tour bus guides will
> point to Pandanus fruit and
> > claim they are pineapples to the horticulturally
> illiterate tourists.
> > (They're also known to get the whole tour bus
> populace "baaaaaing" at
> > mountain goats in Waimea Canyon on Kaua'i!)
> >
> Like it Cheryl <G>
>
> Reminds me of a tale told by a friend who many years
> ago escorted some
> Japanese sailors on a country trip here. It was a
> time when
> highly-coloured dyed sheepskin rugs were popular and
> when she showed her
> guests some flocks of sheep they appeared very
> puzzled and finally asked
> where were all the coloured ones!!
>
> And a completely OT point I cannot resist a comment
> on which shows the
> close affinity between the Haiwaian and Maori
> languages. Waimea is a
> common place name in Maori and is a rather
> derogatory description of a
> local stream or river, varously translated as
> tastless unpalatable or
> unimportant.
>
> Moira
> --
> Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
> Wainuiomata, New Zealand, SW Pacific. 12 hours ahead
> of Greenwich Time
>
>
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