in my country persimmons are called kakis.Took me years to learn that they were the same thing
I'd never even heard of Persimmons before this thread.
I just googled altavistaed persimmon. You are talking about dióspiros! My father has a couple of trees. We wait until the ants raid them (that's when they're ripe), wash them and scoop them up with a spoon.
Persimmons, Kakis, Dióspiros, how many names do these things have?
Quote from: pfrsantos on August 09, 2017, 05:05:14 PMI just googled altavistaed persimmon. You are talking about dióspiros! My father has a couple of trees. We wait until the ants raid them (that's when they're ripe), wash them and scoop them up with a spoon. Sounds nice. Are you sure that the ants don't get inside?
Quote from: Pablo O'Brien on August 09, 2017, 05:24:04 PMPersimmons, Kakis, Dióspiros, how many names do these things have? The First Men called them Dragons Bile.
Quote from: twiliter on August 09, 2017, 05:31:36 PMQuote from: Pablo O'Brien on August 09, 2017, 05:24:04 PMPersimmons, Kakis, Dióspiros, how many names do these things have? The First Men called them Dragons Bile. Their ancestors called them Shlorpmongyumyum.
Quote from: Pablo O'Brien on August 09, 2017, 05:22:42 PMQuote from: pfrsantos on August 09, 2017, 05:05:14 PMI just googled altavistaed persimmon. You are talking about dióspiros! My father has a couple of trees. We wait until the ants raid them (that's when they're ripe), wash them and scoop them up with a spoon. Sounds nice. Are you sure that the ants don't get inside? We watch them when they begin to ripe. When we see the ants running around near them, before getting inside, it's time to pluck them.It's like a quality seal.
Quote from: pfrsantos on August 09, 2017, 05:34:50 PMQuote from: Pablo O'Brien on August 09, 2017, 05:22:42 PMQuote from: pfrsantos on August 09, 2017, 05:05:14 PMI just googled altavistaed persimmon. You are talking about dióspiros! My father has a couple of trees. We wait until the ants raid them (that's when they're ripe), wash them and scoop them up with a spoon. Sounds nice. Are you sure that the ants don't get inside? We watch them when they begin to ripe. When we see the ants running around near them, before getting inside, it's time to pluck them.It's like a quality seal. A persimmon plucker!
Down our way we like to scoop them out with a twiglet and eat them like that. It's a young persons right of passage to defeat a persimmon vomiting Dragon using only a packet of Twiglets (24g bag only), and steal the remaining persimmons to share among the family and village. The villagers then join in the mocking of the Dragon and throw last seasons Gobblers at it until it flies away. A party is then held for the youths who passed the rite and they are awarded a garland made from the harvested persimmon flowers.
I add lanyards of some type to most of my users. I use leather, paracord, and/or very small Robline. Often I use one that I've pre-made that I can add/subtract for the situation.Here are some examples that were lying close by for the picture...
Overhere kakis also go by the name sharon fruit.
I attach Fire steel toggles to all my SAK's. Sometimes when I pocket carry I'll attach a belt lanyard which comes in really handy on a boat.
I like a leather or paracord lanyard. There are some really sweet and cheap beads on ebay - I got a Tibetan silver dragons head for £1.50 and will be ordering some more soon. With orange paracord it looks like the dragon is breathing fire!:
Persimmons are one thing, kaki is quite another, especially in Hungary.
Quote from: twiliter on August 09, 2017, 04:47:26 PMPersimmons are one thing, kaki is quite another, especially in Hungary. well it seems that Kaki is the most common variety of Persimmon around.So in my country 90% of those Persimmons are Diospyros kaki, thus the Kaki name I guess, as I've never seen another variety of that fruit in person here.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmon