Olivers wrote:

> Arri London extrapolated from data available...
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>>JE Anderson wrote:
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>>>"Arri London" > wrote in message
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>>>>TY for the invite, but my travel budget was spent on/in London.
>>>>Nothing more in the books until next year. June is also my busy
>>>>season for my gardening business.
>>>>
>>>>But yes when I lived in San Diego I used to pick tuna fruit along
>>>>the rim of the canyon (overlooking Mission Valley). Probably all
>>>>built up now no doubt, right to the very edge.
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>>>This is a totally foreign cuisine for me as a "raised on white-bread"
>>>Canadian so I have to ask - where does the nickname tuna-fruit come
>>>from?
>>>
>>>Janet
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>>Tuna is just the Spanish name for the cactus fruit from the prickly
>>pear plant. Couldn't tell you the etymology of it.
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> In the Mexican culinary cuboard, the cactus pad, nopal (or nopalitos,
> little strips thereof) are certainly as popular as the tuna (once you get
> past the spines). Vaguely "green-beanish" in flavor, available cnnned (in
> jars) but much better fresh, they make a fine vegetable and useful salad
> stretcher.

But nopales share that one unfortunate characteristic of okra. I like
to decide when I'm going to swallow my food. I don't like it when the
food is slippery enough to decide for itself.

I know the fruit as cactus pear or prickly pear. Had my wife and
daughter both taste for the first time a while back. Both equally not
thrilled. I sorta like them

Pastorio