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!)

[renomarvinm]

Well, Dang!  and Yeow!  I would truly love to see your country, all of it, or even part of it, dangers be darned!  BUT I WILL LEAVE TYHE CASSUARYS and their GUANDONGS ALONE!   I'll admit, I'm a real coward.  I'd probably take precautions - you know, rent an old Tank of some kind, minus the weaponry.  Though I'd prefer that too, if they'd let me.

All joking aside, You people have a wonderful, beautiful land!  And there is so much to learn!  What, for instance, is a "Drop Bear?"  I've read about the Box Jellyfish - something far beyond pain.   As for poisonous snakes, I once read that "Out of the ten of the most dangerous snakes in the world (i.e., horribly lethal) eleven of them live in Australia."  So, you'd see me trudging along in the outback wearing chain mail, kevlar, full plate armor, and hopefully driving a tank.  Well, no, not really.  But I'd love to see it all anyway.!!

We Yanks get confused easily!  Take your national anthem, for instance.  Without looking it up, I believe it is titled someything like "Forward Australia Advance," or something close to that.  (Please forgive my ignorance!)  But, if you asked one hundred people here in the states what it is, most of them would say "Waltzing Matilda."  There are also  a few would say it's "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport."  And none of this is meant in a bad way!  It's just that you have so much, and we haven't been paying attention!  

I've been reading Bill Bryson's book, "In a Sunburned Country."  Wow!

[chuk_77]

This is a drop bear. You really need to watch for drop bears

Our anthem in Advance Australia Fair 

[Anonymous]

we have these in my state !!

devils !

[Anonymous]

You know your Tasmanian !


You would rather ram another car off the road than let it merge in front
of you.

Anywhere that is more than a five-minute drive from your home is
considered "too far away" and if you can't park right out front of your
destination, you'll do laps of the block until a spot becomes available.

You live in Launceston and think Hobart is a cold, boring, rainy hole
full of latte-sipping **bleep**ers and public servants - but you've only been
there twice.

You live in Hobart and think Launceston is a cold, boring, polluted hole
full of rednecks and bogans - but you've only been there twice.

You live in Burnie or Devonport and think people from Hobart and
Launceston should stop their whining because frankly you'd rather live
in either place than Burnie/Devonport.

You've ever been involved in an argument about whether the first class
cricket/football matches should be held in Hobart or Launceston.

It is considered a disgrace to your family to drink anything other than
your local beer - Boag's in the north and Cascade in the south.

You've visited Sydney or Melbourne and some smarta*se at a hotel or
business has asked to see your passport.

You begin your answer to any question with 'Yeah, nah,' no matter
whether you're answering in the affirmative, negative or otherwise: "You
going to the pub tonight?", "Yeah, nah, I thought I'd check it out later
on..."

You've ever left the house in the morning wearing an overcoat, scarf,
hat and sunglasses and returned home in the afternoon cold, wet and
sunburnt.

You or someone in your family owns a shack at a beach.

You're only six degrees of separation from Crown Princess Mary of
Denmark .

You know how to pronounce Launceston as Lonseston and Glenorchy as
Glenorky.

You can easily identify 5 different subspecies of bogan: The suburban
bogan, the rural bogan, Bridgewater/Gagebrook bogan, North West coast
bogan and the Ravo (Launceston bogan).

You ARE one of the 5 subspecies of bogan.

You complain loudly about your local newspaper being full of rubbish,
but believe every published word of it as if it were gospel.

You've had to explain to someone that yes, Tasmanian Devils are real but
no, they don't spin.

The last Tasmanian Devil you saw was roadkill.

You live in a city and the tap water is actually drinkable.

Mainlanders complain that you talk too fast, even though they make jokes
about you being too slow.

You whinge about the smog but there's no way in hell you're going to
stop using your wood-heater.

Beer comes in pots or pints - not midis or handles and only **bleep**ers ask
for schooners.

The pub is a perfectly acceptable place to take someone for a first
date.

You can't understand what people see in Carey Lewincamp's **bleep**py music.

The Falls Festival is the single most important date on your social
calendar and it is perfectly acceptable to miss weddings and funerals if
you have tickets.

You've gone on holidays to the Gold Coast and spent every day sitting in
the shade to get away from the heat.

You know what "Chigwell Ham" is.

You know how to pronounce Clarendon Vale as two syllables.

The only thing you can think of when leaving a nightclub at 4am is
" Mykonos " or "Buster's".

[imastawka]

Having had an extended holiday in Tassie recently,

I can vouch for all that.  Especially the driving.                          

[the_great_she_elephant]

But at least we don't have chicken desks at all the airports here like they do in New Zealand.

[renomarvinm]

So, what do quandongs actually taste like?  And does anybody ever barbecue rabbit?

[serendipityricho]

Good morning-or arvo ..Reno.

The rabbit is known as --underground mutton.......................Richo.

[icyfroth]

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@renomarvinm wrote:

So, what do quandongs actually taste like?  And does anybody ever barbecue rabbit?

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Hi Marvin 🙂

I've never actually had any Quandongs but I imagine they're a bit like sour grapes.

From Wikipedia

The commercial use of the fruit includes its addition to sweet and savoury foods, the flavour is tart and reminiscent of peach, apricot or rhubarb. In South Australia S. acuminatum is called "Wild Peach" or "desert Peach". The fruit and nut of the plant were featured in a bushfood series of stamps produced by Australia Post. It is well known as an exotic food in foreign markets, sales that greatly exceed the consumption in its own country. The fruit also has free radical scavenging ability.

The fruit has been made commercially available, the distinctive flavour is used as an additive, particularly as a uniquely Australian product. This has usually been sourced from wild trees, sometimes by Aboriginal corporations, although the viability of commercial orchards is also being trialled. Many Aboriginal peoples are known to have used the fruit, but mainly they gathered the nuts. The undigested nut can be easily gathered from emu droppings.