My father told me about a fruit calles Paw Paw. He said it taste like a bannana and mango mix. I know they grow in North Louisiana but i want to just order the fruit.
2006-09-22 05:26:23 · 9 answers · asked by micah z 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
they go wild on the east coast they make great jams and pies...they are more dominent in the soutern states....
2006-09-22 05:31:28 · answer #1 · answered by d957jazz retired chef 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the person from Illinois. They used to grow wild along the Kaskaskia river when I was a child. My father loved these things and they must have had them in Arkansas as that was were he was raised.
I did not like them at all. I think they are some variation of the papaya, but not like the ones you can buy at the grocery.
The only ones I ever tasted were picked from the plant and I am not sure if it was mature or not. I think maybe they were to picked up off the ground. This thought came from the old childhood song. "picken up paw paws put um in your pocket, way down yonder in the paw paw patch".
I said all this to say, try the web for agriculture in some of the southern state and see what they say.
2006-09-22 07:01:23 · answer #2 · answered by arkyankeedonna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The call, additionally spelled paw paw, paw-paw, and papaw, in all risk derives from the Spanish papaya, possibly via superficial similarity of their fruit. Pawpaw has distinctive different elementary names, oftentimes very community, which incorporate prairie banana, Indiana (Hoosier) banana, West Virginia banana, Kansas banana, Kentucky banana, Michigan banana, Missouri Banana, the damaging guy's banana, and Ozark banana." "Pawpaw wood have been got here upon in 1541 by potential of the Spanish explorer, Hernando Desoto, on an day holiday into the Mississippi Valley, and he sent samples of this plant lower back to Europe."
2016-12-18 14:56:57 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i live in southern illinois, and they are all over here, there is an especially thick stand of them growing along a set of railroad tracks about a mile east of my parent house. this stand is in some very low lying land that frequently floods-but as for the actual fruit, it deteriorates rather rapidly after being picked, it is very sweet like a brown bannana, but im not sure that it would survive being shipped.
2006-09-22 05:36:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paw Paw is another name for Papaya. Just found that out myself about two months ago. You can buy the fruit (dried or fresh) at most grocery stores. The fresh is pretty good. You eat it like a melon.
2006-09-22 05:32:10 · answer #5 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have some in my back yard, Cincinnati Ohio. The fruit taste like crap, don't worry about it. The seeds are huge and the fruit has more seeds than stuff to eat.
2006-09-22 05:34:33 · answer #6 · answered by Grant d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
paw paw grows in nearly every yard in my country.....but then of course i am from trinidad and tobago in the caribbean
2006-09-22 05:35:03 · answer #7 · answered by Innocence 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check at your grocery store and ask the manager.
http://shade-trees.tripod.com/families/selections/paw_paw.html
http://www.gwf.org/pawpaw.htm second link is the fruit.
2006-09-22 05:35:53 · answer #8 · answered by mt92501 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably in India.
It is in the song in Disney's "The Jungle Book".
I don't know if it is real or not.
2006-09-22 05:34:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋