Here's the crazy yank again, with a question about fruits!!!! GUANDONGS!!

[renomarvinm]

There's a neat article in the national geographic about cassowarys!  Strange birds, those.  Live in the northern part of Australia and parts of New Guinea.  There's a picture in there of them eating  a weird blue fruit called a Guandong.

Please, what is it?  What does it taste like?  Do you folks eat them?  I really need something different - sick and tired of pinapples.  Kiwi fruit are ok.  Coming up next - barbecued cassuary....  (just kidding!)

[*crikey*mate*]

I've had quandongs? Is that what they mean?

It's "bush tucker"

I used them to make a chutney to serve with wild boar

Quandongs

[chuk_77]

if you can catch one to eat  without it killing you. Good luck

[kopenhagen5]

Coming up next - barbecued cassuary....  (just kidding!)

 If you do, you might have a plaque erected outlining the Bar-b-que. (he-he)

[tall_bearded01]

Let me introduce you (Yanks) to this country of mine.

Of all the know land snake we have the five ranked most dangerous.  The rattler, and cotton mouth aren’t even in the running.

We have the cuddly platypus.  Careful when you handle these.  They are only know mammal with poison glands - spurs in the hind legs.

You have alligators.  We have estuarine crocs.  One took someone in the Northern Territory a couple of days ago.  The rangers shot it.  It was over 4 metre longer.

You have the Portuguese Man of War (we call ghem blue bottles.  We have the Box Jelly Fish and stone fish.  Get stung by the first or step on the other and you are in a world of hurt, the kind you did not think could exist.

Then if you want to poke around in the rock pools, try to avoid those cute little octopus with blue rings.  They bite and their bite can kill.

If you in the garden, particularly on the east coast around Sydney, avoid those round holes in the dirt.  The eastern funnel web spider, has a particularly nasty venom.

Which bring us to the Cassowary, they lend new meaning to the old insult “I hope your chickens turn to emus and kick chook house down

Then if the home grown stuff isn’t bad enough, the introduced stuff is just as bad  Try not to take in the beauty of a water hole (billabong) at around dusk.  This is when you may find yourself face to face with a feral pig.  Males have big tusks that can open you like sword, and are greater environmental hazard than the rabbit, fox, feral cat combined.  Luckily they are good to eat and susceptible to a .308 behind the shoulder, but there are some who may take exception to that way of thinking.

Then we have feral water buffalo, well he list is pretty much endless.

That said its home, and there is no place like home.      

[chuk_77]

This explains our beautiful country perfectly

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

or have a big bit of wood handy !

[icyfroth]

Marvin.

Mate.

You be very wary of the Cassowary.

He is a very nasty bird and he doesn't like you on his patch. You can run from him but chances are he'll catch you and use his big spurs to disembowel you. Then walk away cackling and nodding to himself.

Don't mess with it and don't try to steal it's Guandongs. Or thongs.

Ever.

[lurker172602]

Good advice icy, the only thing that deters Cassowary's is Drop Bears. You're usually ok if there's a few of those around.