When they first became chic, I used to peel them with a paring knife and slice them sideways.
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Betsy HP - Jul 08, 2003 9:01:01 am PDT #5528 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
scrappy - Jul 08, 2003 9:06:35 am PDT #5529 of 9843
Nobody
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.
P.M. Marc - Jul 08, 2003 9:10:37 am PDT #5530 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(Of course, if you are me, and you are terminally lazy, you eat them skin and all.)
moonlit - Jul 08, 2003 9:48:54 am PDT #5531 of 9843
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell
"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.
DXMachina - Jul 08, 2003 10:32:27 am PDT #5532 of 9843
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Moonlit, I thought she meant the bird, too...
Madrigal Costello - Jul 08, 2003 10:35:59 am PDT #5533 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.
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.
billytea - Jul 08, 2003 10:37:26 am PDT #5534 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
Nutty - Jul 08, 2003 10:38:17 am PDT #5535 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
meara - Jul 08, 2003 10:39:33 am PDT #5536 of 9843
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.
Kassto - Jul 08, 2003 11:14:28 am PDT #5537 of 9843
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
Well this Kiwi has just woken up. What a perverted lot you are. All this stripping and peeling. We always call 'em kiwifruit so there's no confusion. Some fruiterers actually sell a bunch of them in a little plastic box complete with a serrated plastic spoon to cut them open and spoon them out with.
As for our poor endangered birds: No peeling! Please! They're tough but they can't fly and rats and stoats get their eggs. If you go way into the bush you can hear them at sunset calling out to each other. You never see them in the wild though -- too shy and they only like the dark. Daylight makes them sizzle and burn...