LALA PALM - This Super Rare Fruit Tastes like a MUFFIN! - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 385
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- A street vendor in Madagascar had a very rare fruit for sale with an incredible flavor.
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Hi! I ate this fruit almost 40 years ago when I was a child and when I lived in Tuléar (South West of Madagascar) , I almost forget the taste but I just remember that it was so good...thanks to make me recover this memory!
If you eat it along with berries or some tart fruit it must be like bread and jam.
exactly! Put some in a milky/yogurty fruit like custard apple along with some berries and it would be like cereal.
@@WeirdExplorer Ikr, If we only had access to all the fruits in the world, fruitarianism would probably be the easiest thing ever.
@@WeirdExplorer What was that peanut butter and jelly fruit? Presumably they would go together well.
Man pregnancy coming your way lol
Lol what? I haven't finished the episode yet, I don't get this comment?
Haha. Eat enough fruit and it will be an easy delivery.
pregnant with a poop :P
@@organicgrow4440 it's in the beginning
"Shut up, you damn bird" -Jared R., 2019.
Awesome quote of the day
And the bird shut up almost immediately after being yelled at.
Dude your personality is hilarious. "Shut up ya damn 🐦"
0:40 The bird did shut up
They must have eaten a dragon's blood fruit from a Dracaena draco. (Reference to Sigurd in the Prose Edda - for those who can't quite place it)
I hope they can be exported, I'd really love to try one without traveling too far.
Your making me want to go to Madagascar now...
Your description of how the Lala palm fruit tastes reminds me of the “Boston Brown Bread” we used to get in cans. Do you know what I’m talking about? It was dark brown and it tasted very bread-y and very molasses-y.
Yes! I actually was thinking about that when I had it, but tried to keep it relatable.
Pumpernickel
I was just going through decades of my grandmother's home canned goods in her massive pantry & found her version of the same bread.
It's from the late 90's and still sealed, without rust on the lids.
I'm stoked to try this one! I'm 7 months into fruitarianism. Looking forward to trying all the fun fruits out there!
That bastard bird has had is comeuppance due for a while. You have earned a like for its silence.
At first I thought it would be easy to cut through
Is it dried or fresh one?
Is it need to be dried to be eaten?
Its fresh but not a very moist fruit.
I think its safe to assume that a baobab episode is coming up soon?
could be...
@@WeirdExplorer
Yeet
@@WeirdExplorer DO IT!
Wow, there are more fruits that taste like bread...
Yeah, like wheat. It's the fruit of a cultivated grass.
pretty sure it's a seed
Have you thought of sending the seeds to these oddities back to the US so they can be indexed if it is a rare or even undiscovered species
What a very good question, totally agree - @Weird Explorer DO IT!
It's 100% illegal to import non-indigenous plants or seeds into the US. You have to go through quite a bit to import non-indigenous plants or seeds if you intend to sell them.
I believe he mentioned that if he can he sells the seeds to his patreon subscribers
I am sure a botanic garden in Zone 10, 11 would be delighted to get these seeds and know enough not to let it escape into the wild. There is also the Rare Palm Society and those people are into palms that are so rare that they can only be grown from seed since there are no nurseries that grow them in the US. My father in law was a member and his garden though not big in San Pedro was absolutely incredible.
You really are inspiring to get up and go travel. I'm young,no kids and I have the money to do so. Keep up the great videos!
I can't recommend travel enough! It will change your life.
@@WeirdExplorer travel as a traveller-know the locals, their customs, cuisine etc. Not as a tourist though. I have had the opportunity to walk in the western ghats of India for a couple months and it was awesome.
waiting for the fanart of you two pregnant
hahaha
@@WeirdExplorer you can vist me at charles river rd 90 apt middle
Hi fruitmen. Respect.
guys just wanna let you know that you're great I really enjoy watching your fruit videos, super good vibe for a college student like me
Sounds like something that would be good for breakfast or something.
If you can scrape some off with a cheese grater, then absolutely. Otherwise its a snack to gnaw on.
I wonder what things braising, baking and stewing would do to such a fruit. Something like kvass? Would it be amazing with jam and butter? How about turkey and gravy, a side with the cranberry? Very jealous of your East African journey. I've seen photos that blow my mind thinking of seeing in person.
Stephen's so excited to eat this one, it's cute. I always enjoy his expertise, although I love any guests as a bigger sample size is always good.
I like that the lady only charged 30 cents even after you handed her the equivalent of $4. What is the economy like there, how much does $1 typically buy?
People were very honest for the most part. Only times we were overcharged were in touristy areas
$1 can get you a lot there. A meal at a restaurant or a couple kilos of food from a market.
@@WeirdExplorer Don't you ever feel guilty there? aren't a lot of people poor over there? Or am i wrong? I'm not saying anyone should be ripped off but it just seems they charge so little, maybe i'm overthinking it?
@@WeirdExplorer You got 6 fruit for 30 cents which is very cheap for you especially since you consider it rare and valuable but is the lala fruit considered all that valuable to the people there? You said not many people sell it.
@@Rainielovealways you have to take the culture into account. I know in some places, if someone sells you something for $1 but you offer to pay them $2 it's offensive because you're calling them poor...
ooh, when I went to Redland in Florida they had gingerbread fruit, which I had never heard of, but it wasn't in season at the time unfortunately
Miami fruit and spice park has them too!
I think you would be a beautiful pregnant man.
Thats the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.
I see that it seems very hard/tough and dry. It sounds like something that might be really good if let to soak up water, grilled, or cubed and mixed in with fruits or something. I don't know cause I'm not a cook and have never had it tho (obviously) lmao
I did enjoy that video, thank you sir
So, does Steven save a bunch of the seeds from the fruit you eat and take it to his farm to try to grow them?
@CLureCo yikes, good point
We couldn't get the permits in time, so we gave a bunch to Nero, a local grower
@@WeirdExplorer Can you actually get permits to take them home? I've never heard of anything like that!
mmm i love bread, looks yummy.
THIS RIGHT HERE is why I actually googled “bread pepper” when you made that joke video. 😂
Uplaoded on my birthday!
Happy belated birthday!
Is it bad that I would go into my local botanical gardens and take small exotic fruit off the trees to try (jaboticaba, coffee fruit, different citrus, cacao, etc)?
I would probably ask permission to harvest some small amounts of fruit in exchange for a donation. You don't want to mess up a hybridization program or a program of harvesting fruit for seed to send to growers for a endangered species.
Crazy!!!
You are doing good work.🙂
Cool! Darrel!😂😂
Back home in Eritrea we called Akat and is well known. We eat it and once we finish we burn the out layer and use the inner layer make a toy out of it.
Raisin Bran. Raisins are grapes that have been dried for a long time in the sun. Bran is the hard outer shell of grain. Together with ...
Wait till you taste the beer that it makes, so down in South Africa around Kosi bay have drunk it quite a bit! Locals make it!
Cool! I never heard of that. How is the taste?
hyphaene coriacea is the one we have here in South Africa. I've always considered it inedible though. i will try some next time i come by it
I love you both ❤️
So dangerous watching all these rare fruits, cause I go on this crazy thing where I would do almost anything to get the plant/seed to grow it in our already overgrown fruit tree backyard. I paid $60 for 3 cuttings one time i found out about a particular fruit variety.
haha use caution.
Dry humor. Laughed.
Why do you look so good and poor Steve looks like me right before I heat stroke?
Did you say it is similar to doom palm?!
yep pronounced the same but spelled doum
yes
Clicking the bell prioritizes notificatiins. Now you know.
Like eating the fibers off the outside of a coconut
Bit nicer than that, but yeah a bit haha
id buy that alas...
Take a shot everytime you hear the word bread.
I don't want to die
doom palm
Great video Matt Stone.
Better than when I get James Deen haha
oh so that's where the trees from kabukimonogatari during the ice cream scene are from
Starting a fund to buy your friend a new shirt🤣
Good morning
Do you taste 2-Acetyl-1-pyrroline ?
I thought it was Doum at the beginning. An Egyptian here.
Very similar :)
How is Doum used in Egypt by the way? Is it common?
@@WeirdExplorer It's very common, but it's not eaten whole. It's crushed into chunks, steeped in hot water, then sweetened and consumed as a cold beverage in the summer. I personally enjoy it quite a lot. It's also used as a home remedy for high blood pressure, even prescribed to hypertensive patients as an effective means of maintaining their blood pressure. No idea if that's a valid claim though.
Oh and by the way, a similar beverage is made out of carob (sp?) and both beverages alongside other traditional ones are sold by street vendors. They're quite tasty and refreshing in the oppressive summer heat.
I'll be sooo happy if you send me all the seeds you get from the fruits you eat....
We all would! Haha!
@@AlbinoAxolotl we'll all have a giant tropical garden!
i hope you kept the seeds
Gave them to a grower friend in Madagascar before flying off.
Every time you cut things with a knife I get so concerned for your fingers
Pity you could not get lala palm wine - it is brewed in remote areas of Natal.
Being someone that's eaten this a lot, I can tell you that it's a mistake to swallow the pulp! You just chew it and squeeze the flavour out then spit out the little fibres. I do like your description of the flavour.. raisin bran muffin.
You've eaten it a lot? Where did you get it? Is there a problem with the fruit fiber passing too slowly through the intestinal tract?
@@SY-ok2dq it grows naturally where I grew up. The fibers are very short and stiff causing a lot of pain spiking and scraping the throat and gut.
It never ceases to amaze me how many crazy fruits ar out there.
Every video you put out reminds me how boring the varieties of fruit we have here in sweden are.
The most exotic we get here is mango, papaya, starfruit, physalis and stuff like that. The same kind of "exotic fruit" that you get all over the world.
The only good stuff in sweden are the berries when they are in season.
Your videos are always fascinating! 👍
Ey that's a pretty good list of fruit! Some places cannot grow mango at all.
I would like to eventually explore Scandinavia to find a few fruits. I really want to try cloud berries, & fresh lingonberries, but there are many endemic fruits in the area like sea berry, elderberry and some other arboreal wild berries. There are breeding programs in places like Saskatoon, Russia and other places for ultrahardy temperate fruits like juneberries(one of my top 5 favorite fruits), honey berries, arctic kiwi, five flavor fruit, many blueberry relatives(bilberry/cranberry/crow berry/tons of huckleberry/arctic raspberry, strawberry, bush cherry, and others that would thrive in your area.
Oh yeah, you can’t put a good berry down!
@@organicgrow4440 They are not grown in Sweden. Most fruit is imported to sweden. I meant the kinds of fruit we can get in the store 😄
@@stevenmurray3238 Yes I know. I live in berry-land 😄
I live in Stockholm though, so we don't have nearly as many varieties of berries as northern sweden, but we can definitely get them in the store.
We mainly have lingonberries, raspberries and blueberries (if the summer isn't too dry, which it has been for several years now ☹️)
Cloudberries ar really unique. They taste like honey and makes one of the best types of jam.
They have seriously large and fairly hard seeds though. That sometimes throws people off. I love them though.
My favourite is camenbert cheese topped with cloudberry jam, and then baked shortly in the oven until it melts. Unbelievably delicious! 👍
If you DO have a baby, will you name them after the fruit? I'll look forward to the announcement 😂
A soft fruit that tastes like gingerbread/bran muffins? Why isn’t that the only thing I eat
ha ha, that "damn bird" is probably responsible for spreading and sustaining plant species you have the seed of in your hand.
Is that the proper way to use a knife? Lol
They have all these hard dry fruits around Africa
Wow, bread from a tree. No cooking needed.
#1. Madagascar Lovebird (who you yelled at). #2. I am terrified in every video you cut something, I'm not saying your knife skills are bad, it's just you cut looking at the camera and it's right in our face. So I just don't breath for a little bit.
honestly them trees are too woke for me to look at right now they are so mad.
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@@-jank-willson sorry i was hungover from drinking last night and them trees at the beginning were just crazy to see, ive never seen a tree that thick but with such little branches or leaves.
@@Dockhead They're one of several species of trees called Baobab, which are all in the Adansonia genus. The name of that particular species (at the start of the video) is Adansonia grandidieri
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I agree, they look amazing! Someday I will see and/or grow them personally. I've actually got a picture of them as my desktop pic at the mo. Mind expanding stuff!
Sometimes they are referred to as the trees that grew upside down with their roots in the air.
@@garmancathotmailcom Cool aye :)
I'm not a fan of it, but in the story "The Little Prince", their roots grow so big that apparently they destroy planets!
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But what of the SEED? Talk about a cliff hanger!!
Oops... We didn't manage to get it open. It was wayyy too hard.
Was there vegetable Ivory or what!!?? Lol
Are you guys pregnant yet? LOL
Lala Opochtli
this is a kinda nut u guyz
Algoritthmmmm COMMENT
save the seeds of all ur fruits and bring em back to the states promoting ecodiversity across the world could actually save our planet from climate change
Was there vegetable Ivory or what!!?? Lol
didn't manage to get to the seed, it was way too hard to break open. but I'm sure there was.
Omg I can't believe I'm as excited as I am that you replied!! Lol... I'm too old to fangirl hahaha (I'm 37 but my 18 + 15 yr old daughters would say that lol)
Anyway, I was curious because I had never even heard of it before! I have a weird food phobia so I hardly eat any fruits, yet I LOVE your channel!! Lol I'm weird 🙃