persimmon eat id so poetic a word delightful only when fully ripe poison as seed; persimmon 060324 ... e_o_i At the grocery store, was curious enough about an orange fruit to ask one of the staff if it was a persimmon. I like persimmons. "No," he said, "that's a kaki fruit." Sure enough, the paper below it said kaki fruit. "Is it related to a persimmon?" I asked, because it looked an awful lot like one. He didn't know. That was a few days ago. Since I wasn't sure what it was, I only got one. Just now I started eating it, scooping the fruit out with a spoon, and it tasted an awful lot like a persimmon, so I asked Prof. Google: sure enough, kaki fruit and persimmon is the same thing. Kaki is the Japanese name. In any case, it tastes really good. 170103 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Hmm. I thought I wrote about persimmons before on blather. Last year or the year before I had a jingle of my own making stuck in my head: Do I have permission to eat a persimmon? I do, I do, and now I need to spread the word that it is also a kaki_fruit. It's like checkerberries and wintergreen, or cilantro and coriander. The world needs to know!! 170103 ... e_o_i (Or gazpacho and chickpeas, remembering flowerock about that. It makes sense that they'd call it by the Spanish name in California.) 170104 ... e_o_i Auugh! I mean garbonzo. THAT means chickpeas. (Don't) trust me to write stuff from memory. 170104 what's it to you? who go blather from