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Default Can you help me with what this fruit is?


"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
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> RegForte wrote:
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>>>>>> Here's the inside. posted to abf also.
>>>>>> http://i26.tinypic.com/5v56bb.jpg

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>> I'm wondering if they're very smooth chayote (aka mirliton) ...

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> Chayote are much lighter in color, and their pit is in the center of the
> flesh; a chayote pit vaguely resembles an oversized lima bean both in
> shape and texture. This thing (which I still maintain is a white sapote)
> has a dark hard pit set off-center.


I vote white sapote too, but the skin color isn't right. More like a black
sapote, but then the pulp isn't right.