Posted on 05/28/2021 7:58:19 AM PDT by mylife
los Angeles does, contrary to what some believe, have seasons; they just aren’t the same as those in the Northeast or Midwest. There isn’t really a fall or a winter. Instead, there’s Fire Season, Rainy Three Weeks, and June Gloom, among others. But there’s another way to measure the passage of time: by fruit. We’re not talking about what’s in the farmer’s markets, but what’s growing on the streets, in parking lots, in plots of land that may or may not belong to anyone.
Los Angeles, especially the hotter, drier East Side, is not home to an unusually large number of native edible plants, but it is home to an absolutely berserk amount of non-native fruit trees, planted both intentionally and accidentally. Many of these simply line neighborhood streets. Among them, especially prominent on the East Side, in now-trendy neighborhoods like Silver Lake, Echo Park, and Atwater Village, is the loquat.
The loquat—an extremely juicy, incredibly prolific, mighty delicious sweet-sour fruit, bright yellow in color, somewhere between a plum and a mango in flavor—is so common that you can hardly walk more than three or four houses in these neighborhoods without passing one. And yet it isn’t celebrated, prized, or, for the most part, eaten at all. You can tell this because if they were valued, then all those trees wouldn’t be absolutely heavy with fruit. “Nobody eats them,” says Alissa Walker, a Los Angeles–based journalist and loquat enthusiast, of the loquat trees in her neighborhood. “They just hang on the trees, and I’m like, ‘Is anyone going to eat these?’”
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We used to get Tabasco sauce sent to us by our families. That helped a lot. That is, when the packages didn’t get stolen in the military post office system.
Our mulberries are sweet but not much of a fruity taste, pretty bland compared to raspberries.
Dewberries are sort of like blackberries that trail along the ground. They grew wild in the country where I grew up.
Loquats can be used in all sorts of condiments. Good with raw fish (ceviche).
Social justice achieved!
Just today, I cut one that size down because I decided it was to close to my house.
very good idea.
A lot of the orange trees are ornamental and were not grafted. Makes them bitter and not hardly edible.
Mulberries sweet as candy and juicy. Very short shelf life.
What does them being a Muslim have to do with your story? Or is being a bigot just something you do naturally?
Nothing new about this...
The streets of LA have been filled with strange fruits since the 1920’s...
The same thing can be said about parts of NYC...
Dude- it’s not just that one family- several in the neighboorhood are like that- Everyone in town has had some kind of experience with them- They feel entitled or something- so no- I’m not being a bigot- They aint amish- they are muslims- middle easterners- it’s a fact- They came here in recent years- and have been making waves since- Several have been arrested for a massive multimillion dollar welfare scam in a few towns over-
Never had chestnuts- i think you roast them? if so- it will kill the worms I’d think. just added protein lol
Ah- Don’t think I’d care for them then- maybe if mixed with something with a bit more taste-
We have a mulberry tree but it’s the white berry variety, fortunately. Don’t stain but still a bit of a mess.
I’ve asked my landscaper to find me a sweet seedless dwarf lemon tree and plant it. had one but it died of root rot problems because it was on a daily drip system. For seven years I had it giving me the best lemonade in the winter as the fruit matured. The seedless orange tree I have nearby is still going strong and its fruit is very sweet as well.
I wish I had asked him to get me another two of each.
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