Ooh--a terribly stereotypical question for the NZ/Australia types here:
How do you eat a kiwi?
Because TWICE now, I've run into someone where the subject came up (which is not terribly common, thus the "twice!") and they said "Oh, I don't eat kiwis very often, they're good, but they're such a pain to peel". And I goggled at them, because, well, most people I know just slice the thing in half and spoon it out...how are kiwis eaten where they originate?
(And we just started getting yellow kiwis here in the store--I can't decide if I like them more or less than the green kind)
When they first became chic, I used to peel them with a paring knife and slice them sideways.
You peel them to put them in salads or whatever. Unless you're me, in which case you go at them with a knife until you are left with a soggy green lump the size of a filbert.
(Of course, if you are me, and you are terminally lazy, you eat them skin and all.)
"Oh, I don't eat kiwis very often, they're good, but they're such a pain to peel".
Meara this is very true. You have to peel a
kiwi very carefully.
Moonlit, I thought she meant the bird, too...
For a moment my mind was going to a "Silence of the Lambs" kind of place with talking about how one must carefully peel the skin off a Kiwi.
Ahem. There shall be no peeling the skin off the birds. They're endangered, and are the only birds to have nostrils at the tip of their bills, which in my world earns you an exemption from this sort of thing.
I was thinking about a New Zealander of my choice performing a striptease, but whatev. You people and your fruit/non-avian bird fantasies.
edit: punchlines are funnier when they're spelled properly.
For a moment my mind was going to a "Silence of the Lambs" kind of place with talking about how one must carefully peel the skin off a Kiwi.
Hee. This too.
But no, I mean the kiwifruit. The kind that's all too often referenced in grossly sweet things called "strawberry kiwi" whatever, but is not actually present.
