Monday, January 23, 2012

... you say papaya ...

... but hey, let's talk pawpaw for a minute ... call it papaya if ya wanna, but I'll go with how I was raised to sow it, grow it and know it ... pawpaw trees grow easily, given fertile conditions, and they can present a positive practicum, educating people on raising a fruit-bearing plant, a metaphor for life's cycle itself ...

... this one was grown by someone else and came to me ready for consumption ... a couple of judicious morning incisions and I had cut open the most promising pawpaw of the year so faw ...

... I mean, far ...

... the fragrance hit me in the nose, which doesn't always happen ... pawpaws vary from plant to plant, ranging from watery and delicate to spicy and pungent, with a wide spread of sweet and delightful in-between ... hmm ...














 ... some of these succulent, fleshy, smooth-skinned delicacies come flush with seeds, which resemble tadpole-sized spermatozoa or uterine ovum depending on your ... ahh ... perspective ...

... jus' sayin' ...

... those womb-like visuals bring the words ovarian and fallopian to fore, making it fitting that the first wedge be cubed to nurture in a schooler's snackbox ... but further parsing, to provide breakfast for three adult couples, is a figurative reflection of fecundity and an underappreciated manifestation of papaya aphrodisia ...

... remind me to canvas for feedback ...

4 comments :

  1. Personally, I'm a big mango fan.

    Patricia

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  2. ... @ Patricia, I know what y'mean there too ... see my mango post - http://ackeeloverchronicles.blogspot.com/search/label/Mangoes - bring 'em on!

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  3. Mmm... I haven't had fresh papaya in a while now. But I have the dried fruit semi-regularly and the herbal tablets, as they're the BEST thing for stomach troubles EVER. They blow Pepto Bismol and Tums out of the water every single time.

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  4. Out of all the exotic fruits, Mango is my favourite by far, but when I can get a nice sweet Pawpaw drizzled with fresh lemon juice...hummm...it is to die for! Something about the lemon juice...it brings out that delicate flavour of that beautiful fruit. Marie from Antigua

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