Persimmons. I know they're available at least in the bay area because I had them when I lived there briefly, but have never found them in my regular home in the pacific northwest. I also don't remember them as a kid growing up in Tennessee.
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I get them in Texas from the Korean market. I don't know that they're available year round though.
I'd be surprised if you couldn't find any via Asian markets in the Pacific Northwest.
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I always wanted to try the cashew fruit ever since I discovered it was a fruit.
Allegedly it's too juicy and fragile to import.
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Strawberries that taste like they did 10+ years ago?
Strawberries are so easy to grow that they are almost invasive.
If you leave them alone, they will overtake whatever is near them.
Each strawberry plant I have sends off multiple runners, with multiple nodes per runner.
It is a very high exponential growth rate.
You can start with 4 and have over 100 in 2 years.
Except now you have 100 plants that all taste like shit, because all strawberries now taste bland or sour.
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Any of them before soil depletion and banana blight. Fruits and veggies tasted so much better in the 80s. Melons in particular taste lifeless now. Once in a while I strike gold at the local farmer's market or in our own garden.
And tomatoes. Tomatoes used to be amazing. Even the worst ones were amazing.
Now they just taste like “wet”. If you want a good tomato you have to track down lovingly and carefully bred heirloom plants and grow them yourself.
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Guavas
We have guava in the stores here in Florida but I've seen rhubarb twice in half a century.
I have a 6 foot by 6 foot patch of rhubarb in Wisconsin that's completely gone to seed because I don't have enough freezer space to keep any more of it. It makes a great simple syrup for cocktails and of course classics like crumble and pie.
When I was a kid, we had a patch of it in the back yard and mom would make desserts out of it. Or wed just eat it raw.
I just got into guava recently. I live in Jersey and my local ShopRite started stocking clamshells with six guavas or so, ranging in size from a goofball to something larger than a goofball but smaller than a baseball. Maybe like billiards ball sized. I'd never eaten them before like a month ago, and so the seeds threw me T first, but I've got the technique down now and shit, when they're ripened, nice and soft, they are fantastic. I worry about the day when I get to ShopRite and the guavas are no longer.
Jackfruit
I remember getting one when one of the supermarkets around here carried them and theyre huge fruits. Probably 20 pounds of fruit that we ate from it and by the time we were done I never wanted to see another one again lol. I wouldn't mind trying them again now but probably maybe just a pound not a whole fruit.
A restaurant out here had a great jackfruit sloppy Joe for vegetarians but I think they discontinued serving it.
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My favorite type of apple is Jazz. It's less-sweet than the Honeycrisp, which tends to be more-widely-available.
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Cumquats. We can get them here, but I rarely see them. What could be better than a little orange you can eat like a grape?
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You can't import yuzu fruits or plants. All the yuzu in the US is descended from the 100 original plants imported before it was made illegal.
But really, I want soft cheeses...
We can get yuzu fruit here (Florida) but couldn't get the seeds to sprout, not sure how the trees are propagated. Anyway - the fruit is underwhelming, the zest is divine, I made a yuzu kosho, it is delicious.
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Google says they taste like a mix of lemon, orange and grapefruit. Is that accurate?
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Beans.
Why is this downvoted? There are more kinds of beans than you can buy in the typical American supermarket. Tell me you've never been to an ethnic grocery store without telling me 😒
People probably instantly took their meaning to be mundane beans eg. pinto. Adzuki beans or at least the red paste desserts made from them, I bet most people here haven't tried but would like.
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