I searched for Persimmon when I saw this, and found that I’ve never eaten it. I must buy it if I ever see it in a supermarket but I’m sure I’ve not seen it anywhere. Google says it’s grown in China and Korea.
Rambutan is one of my favourite fruits. I absolutely love it. Last month was the season of Rambutan, Mangosteen, and Durian. We have a small rambutan tree but its fruits are eaten by monkeys and giant squirrels. Same about mangosteen.
I have collected screenshots of funny website ads but I can’t find the folder. Will post a few when I find it.
A few months ago I went to a Spar supermarket here, and there was a bathroom deo of two colours of same identical product. It had a discount on it, so I took it to the counter. The cashier added the regular price. I told her that the display said there’s a discount. She said it’s for the other colour. I said it didn’t mention the colour. You know what she said? She said it’s in the barcode! I got really ticked off. I asked her how many customers come shopping with a barcode reader and their data base. I called the manager, took him there, and asked him how I can read the barcode. He gave me the discount.
Supermarkets sometimes make the stupidest mistakes, and think that customers would figure it out themselves.
Giant squirrels! O.O Not a phrase I thought I’d be reading here today.
Persimmon I’ve seen in that supermarket before, not sure about any of the others locally (Tesco maybe, the li’l uns I’m fairly sure not). If I were shopping for it I’d try going to the various much (much, much, much!) smaller “Asian food market” shops – a vaguely defined category to be sure, but there’s a number of them in essentially the same location here, so that’d be my aimlessly speculative starting point. In the UK, I know that similar stores exist in cities of a reasonable size or with any reasonable-sized immigrant community. Though often those trend more South Asian, so might not be doing those.
Those others I’d at least heard of, and could stand a fighting chance of spelling without google’s help.
Yeah, shelving can be misleading that way. And of course, sometimes even if they shelve and label everything right… customers can move one or the other around and flummox the next person!
The aforementioned Tesco, for example, sells two different “own brand but not” pepperoni pizzas. They have almost identical names, and almost identical packaging. And of course, they’re on adjacent shelves. But one is something like double-to-triple the price of the other! Which is confusing enough to start with – if not suspiciously close to deliberately misleading. But imagine the mayhem that results if someone picks up the more expensive one, and carelessly puts it down on the wrong shelf!
“suspiciously close to deliberately misleading”
This is like Rambutan sellers in Sri Lanka. They make a heap of the most beautiful fruits and put up a board for the cheapest price. Just behind the price board are the old, close to rotting fruits. When you give the seller the money he picks from the old fruits. When you ask him he says that the board is for that one, and the good one is more expensive. That’s an age old scam but still people get caught. Their target is those who come to the city from the villages, having no idea of scams.
I’ve got a few interesting stories about how I handled scammers, I’ll write them tomorrow. It’s 2.am here in Sri Lanka.
Different case, I’d argue. That’s the full-service greengrocer con trick, as opposed to ambient pricing and shelving confusion! And we have that one in these islands too, no question…
I’m tempting to get into the same Tesco having packets of bourbon biscuits where the one that was twice the size was six times the price… but I’ll try not to derail your thread more than you, while you rest. Sleep well!
And California, US. . At least Northern. I don’t grow them, but I seem to recall the squat orange not astringent ones growing even in unmaintained yards. One reference says some like mild winters and don’t like high summer heat and my area has mild winters but intense heat.
Around here I’ve known people who give them away like they give away zucchini elsewhere, and I seem to recall trying that thing where you dry them, caressing them every day.
Those must be the Asian variety.
They were wild all over in the SE.
Missouri is about the north and west boundary.
I distinctly remember my grandfather showing me both persimmons and sassafras bark when we’d go to the Ozarks.
The persimmon-whisperer! Googling to try and see which variety – species, even – is sold in these parts, I do seem them sold in dried form, so it’s working for someone! (At least on an agro-industrial scale.)
Dunnes is obviously a mystery – they didn’t have them in stock, and their website wasn’t even admitting they were persimmons! Tesco list them on theirs, with the country-of-origin as Spain. So probably a cultivar of Diospyros kaki?
"Hachiya persimmons, botanically classified as Diospyros kaki, are ancient fruits that grow on deciduous trees reaching up to 18 meters in height, belonging to the Ebenaceae family. There are two main categories of persimmons, astringent and non-astringent, and Hachiya persimmons are a type of astringent persimmon, meaning the flesh is deemed inedible until fully ripe. "
@Barca that dish is fine dining stuff. looking beautiful and sophisticated. @alai I took a great effort to get used to Persimmon. It always looked like permission. And auto-correct will never let anyone type persimmon. lol.
