I Fichi D'india [Italian Edition]

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Your basic goal is to move it around in your mouth, guiding both the seeds and the actual fruit from your tongue to the top of your mouth, then down your throat. As a child I lived in the Constantia Valley in Cape Town, with the mountain at our back and vines and views down to the sea at our feet, when we stepped out of the front door. Some like to feel the crunch of the seeds between their teeth, while others eat them as they do pomegranates, swallowing seeds along with the gelatinous flesh (think, "fiber"). Now I wish I’d had this post to hand last year before D plucked some prickly pears from a neighbour’s cactus! The apocryphal though entirely likely story goes that as a result of a feud between two neighbours, one neighbour sought revenge.

I wear rubber gloves when doing this because sometimes there are hair-like almost invisible thorns left on the surface of the pear that can get into the skin on your fingers and drive you crazy with itching.Fichi d'India were an Italian comedy duo made up of Bruno Arena (12 January 1957 – 28 September 2022) and Max Cavallari (born 8 July 1963), both actors and cabaret artists. The spines can be pretty sharp, handling them requires care, so don’t bother and try them already peeled.

Christopher Columbus, still under the impression that he had found India when he landed in North America, “discovered” the fruit and named it “Indian fig. If you can get past its threatening exterior, you will see something that I have been told is a huge turn-off for visiting Americans: the bulk of the fruit (except for a bit of brightly colored pulp) is seeds. The apartment with a terrace and garden views features 2 bedrooms, a living room, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with an oven and a fridge, and 1 bathroom with a bidet. The fruits were named fichio d’India (Indian fig) because when Christopher Columbus arrived in the new continent and saw prickly pears he thought he was in India . I suppose most people would say it’s just a bit rustic but for anything closer you’re fine picking with the tongs instead.The prickly pear, or fico d’India in Italian, is the fruit that grows on the end of cacti like in the photo.