Sugar-Apple
posted in Flora, Food, Fruits by Rico Ferrari |The sugar-apple (Annona squamosa) is a very common and praised fruit from semi-arid northeastern Brazil. It’s a dry, very sweet fruit, and it have a taste that recalls French d’Anjou pears, dry peaches and also kiwis. Some say it tastes like custard. Custard? No way.
Anyways, it’s perfect for a dessert after dinner and before a cup or two of Shiraz wine (the best Brazilian Shiraz are also made in northeasterner Sao Francisco Valley). The Brazilian name for the fruit is pinha-do-norte (something like “northern-pine”). Because it’s expensive for us in southern, mild climate Brazilian regions, it’s a bizarre fruit even for most of the country inhabitants and a kind of delicacy. Bellow you can see some pics of a sugar-apple being unmercifully murdered (click on the pics for a larger view).
The thing, see from above.
A closer look. The black spots indicate it’s time to kill the beast.
Prepare for the slaughter, you, barbarian, Martian thing.
You won’t scape this red fingernails, juiceless oddity.
The sugar-apple being stripped, with my library behind. Very literary.
Almost there.
Gosh, it’s hard work.
Don’t you dare to escape me.
Now, lets strip the victim.
Yummy.
Oh my gosh, you eviscerated the thing, madam!
The thing almost dead. Die, you green, fleshy, juiceless bastard!
(All pics by Rico Ferrari)
