JohnZerne- Журнал, 08 окт 22

On my way home I hit a wall (metaphorically speaking) and I really thought I might black out. Paw paw fruits have been falling from the trees onto the trail, so I started looking for some hoping to find some not rotten or gotten into by vermin. I was fortunate to find a clump of 3 fallen beside the trail still attached to a stem, intact, and fully ripe. Tasted amazing (everything tastes amazing when you're that hungry though). Tasted a bit like banana but with a texture more like pudding. Each fruit has 5 or so large seeds between the size of an almond and a Brazil nut. 

It took an hour and a half to ride out 17 miles but more than 2 hours to ride back. After eating the pawpaw fruit I finally had enough energy to continue home at a more reasonable pace. Lesson learned: always take granola bars and fruit on any ride longer than 15 miles, so I don't have to eat random food off the ground. Lol. 

Yoooooo! That sounds intense, my friend!  

Way to make it work! I never heard of paw paw fruit, must be nice to have trees full of them! 

When I was young, I'd stay with my grandma for the summer vacation. I loved this because she had a beef cattle farm upstate NY, and I adored that farm and I adore my grandma (she's 91!!). One year, I went with her to walk the perimeter of 144 acres while she checked for breaks in the barbed-wire fence that kept the cattle in. It was unusually hot that day, and I must have been complaining about it because I remember my grandma pointing out the crab apples. She said I could suck the juice out (to get some sugar) but not to eat the flesh of the apple (cause it would upset your stomach). Thanks for bringing back such a beautiful memory, JohnZ. Sorry you had to go to the brink of death for it, but it was totally appreciated. 😉 

Glad you're okay, that was dangerous. I've never eaten paw paw fruit, but it sounds delicious. 

Ohhhh paw paw. New to me also. Where abouts does this grow? Please pack extras next time. Glad you could ‘eat from the ground.’ That me me laugh. 😂😂 

Funny thing is I grew up just down the road from Paw Paw West Virginia but I never knew Paw Paw was a fruit until I was an adult and had moved away. It grows along the C&O canal. Not sure exactly how much farther north south or west, but it is Native to the US east coast, so I know it grows in Maryland, Delaware, Northern Virginia, West Virginia, and probably at least Southern Pennsylvania.