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!)

[happyroo_bunji]

I used to volunteer at a wildlife rescue centre and would bottle feed baby wombats.  One of them Chomp (named because he would get chomped on by other wombats) was adorable very gentle.  Jazz was a mean sod, as soon as you would enter the enclosure he would try to knock you over or take a chunk out of your leg.

[serendipityricho]

Happyroo--reading your post-im thinking--bottle feeds were the best option........Richo.

[happyroo_bunji]

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@serendipityricho wrote:

Happyroo--reading your post-im thinking--bottle feeds were the best option........Richo.

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I agree Richo.

I also had to feed some 'pinkys' wombats without fur.  They were cute, you'd get a dirty look from them if you woke them up.  We would also have to rub vegetable or olive oil on them to stop thier skin drying out.

[serendipityricho]

Happyroo-good onya for helping save our wildlife.............................Richo.

[sineaterdoodah]

bob,honey,as long as i can keep the coffee machine cord plugged in with your DW's help,we'll let you touch it...occasionally,lol! 

[*crikey*mate*]

he certainly seems to have developed a track record of use of unauthorized powders....

[sineaterdoodah]

he tends to injure himself when using a coffee maker,he got lucky that time,lol! 

[renomarvinm]

Hi *crikey*mate* - I never thought of it that way!!!!!!   I once tried to join a chemistry class, but when I got there, the professor was standing there blocking the door.  He was holding two beakers of weird bubbling stuff.  Had a horrified look on his face - I think my reputation got ahead of me.

Hi sineaterdoodah!!!!!!  Two years ago, we moved from Reno to Eugene, which is up on the west coast - lots of green trees and bushes out here.  My wife unpacked our toaster, and discovered our cat (he's the orange guy you see in the picture) had, how should I put this delecately - hacked up a fur ball into one of the toaster slots before we left.  Fortunately, we had not turned it on yet.  We got a new toaster!  For a while, I contemplated cleaning it out, but noooooooo.

MORAL - ALWAYS check your toaster before you use it!

So where do I get a jar of quandong jam?

[sineaterdoodah]

online,silly man! you can get ANYTHING on line,lol!

[*crikey*mate*]

Reno => Chemistry => My kids made exploding gummy bears in Chemistry class

         => Quondong Jam => You might have to make it yourself get your wife to make some, I'm not sure that bush tucker is such a big thing here to have anyone producing it commercially.

Can find a recipe in a book called Windfalls by Sue Ruchel, or I can tell you how to stew them and then go to a chutney.

but whatever you do

Spoiler

Do not attemp[t to make it yourself or buy it in powdered form!