@Chiara Orefice That’s so funny, it’s just like how a female turkey in French is called La Dinde meaning “from India” (d’Inde) when it is actually from America haha. Interesting how that geographical misunderstanding carries for so long in our vocabulary.
You're lucky, getting them from the plant is a pain! You literally must wait for a thunderstorm to happen before harvesting them, because it washes off the evil, invisible splinters!
I've had a lot of hummus growing up in the Middle East. Now that i am back to my native India, I don't get the chance to eat hummus as much. I recently tried recreating it at home, and thankfully it turned out decent, although far from the original one. And it transported me right back to my childhood. 😍 Yup, food/tastes definitely bring back vivid memories. ❤️
I saw the cactus for the 1st time Still i have memories attached to it In BIOLOGY, i learnt :-“In Australia (1920), Prickly pear cactus grew over million of grassland and created havoc ,because there was no predator of it. later, Cactophagus moth (a predator of prickly pear cactus) was introduced. Hence , population of prickly pear cactus came under control." 🤞
Potato & hamburger soup. It reminds me of my late mum, and sharing a fall or winter meal together. I've tweaked the recipe a bit, it's still really simple and I think, very yummy.
Beryl, you must either have teeth made of titanium or there must be different varieties of prickly pears because the seeds in the ones I've ever had were harder than rocks! Lol.
@@erinrobinson6436 I just "eat around the seeds" and spit them out. I know people who just swallow them, but I've never heard anyone chewing them for extra crunch... Lol. But that's just me.
@@BerylShereshewsky Interesting... Had never one of those... Maybe a different variety ...? Or may the seeds get harder as the fruits mature...? I have to investigate this. Haha.
Tunas are the best! We used to always eat them when they were in season since we had nopales and other fruit trees at home in Mexico! My mom always added a bit of salt and lime to make them even tastier 😋
Many species of prickly pear cacti are also native throughout North America… pretty much everywhere from Mexico to Canada. They grown not just in the desert, but can also be found in the southeast where it’s pretty wet and as far north as Alberta and Connecticut.
Actually the emotional part of the brain (the limbic system) was originally called the 'rhynencephilon' (nose brain)... because in many species smell and taste are pure emotion.
My grandma LOVED tunas growing up. We would often go mushroom picking and she was a master forager. My dad said he didn't even consider taking fruit off of a tree that wasn't his (it was in public) until he met my grandmother
In Portuguese that fruit is called figo da India (indian fig) and it's pretty much everywhere, we can pick them up from the side of the road. But please, please be careful and always use gloves: if they're not store bought they have nasty almost invisible spines that really hurt and will stay in your skin foreevveeerrr (you'll feel them for a few days when touching things). Other than that, delicious!!
It is SO common in India and it's been talked about in ancient books for the folks who don't know. We don't eat the seeds as I've heard they lead to kidney stones and they are not easily digested. It's mostly washed thoroughly, boiled with sugar/molasses/gud and black salt, then strained into a puree to be refrigerated. Excellent summer juice!
Forgot to add they are at times roasted in open fire like marshmallows and then skinned while the juice is oozing out. So juicy and yum. My memories of it in summers.. growing up with my mom making them in the fire where my house was next to a barrier of these plants near a farm mostly planted by farmers to keep the cattle in and unwanted people out.
Ice apples! They're so soft and juicy and each time I eat them I'm reminded of my summer holidays when my grandfather would peel them for me and we all ate them together
I live in Arizona. My neighbor lets me cut these off his cacti every year. I always offer to prepare them for him but he just scoffs. More for me, Eric! :-)
As a child in middle East it used to be my favourite fruit, we used to buy big quantities and fight over it with my siblings lol, absolutely delicious. Nowadays not as delicious, such a shame.
Oranges and the smell of orange blossoms. My grandparents lived on the edge of an orange orchard where my grandfather was the foreman. And I spent every waking moment at my grandparents house because we lived down the road.
Boiled and peeled chestnuts remind me of winter time in Kuwait. It was an imported item in Kuwait, doesn't grow there and it was quite expensive but our father bought it for us several times in winter
I learned to make chili from my mum, who learned it in Arizona. It reminds me of Christmas caroling because we had a big party for many years, go caroling and eat chili afterward.
@Catherine Bond Was your mum American? I noticed the British spelling but you mentioned Arizona. My mom was from Liverpool, and married my American dad, and settled here in the USA.
I don't know where in the Arab world they call it Sabata but we do call the plant "Sabbar" in Arabic and call the fruit "Karmouss" or "Handia" here in Morocco.
I’m Spain we call them “higos chumbos” and we cultivate a lot of them here. Specially in the Canary Islands (that are tropical islands in Africa) and in Andalucía (southern region of Spain). They came here from the Viceroyalty of New Spain (modern day Mexico), but it’s territory was much bigger (from Alaska all the way to Costa Rica, including all the Mid West of the USA, Florida, Louisiana…)
Yes they are delicious but a word of advice: be careful eating too many of the seeds. Because prickly pears are desert fruits they are great at absorbing moisture. Therefore , if you eat too many you will become very constipated.
We have native prickly pear cactus growing here in New Mexico and Arizona. Mom picked some when my brother and I were preteens after we’d moved out of town and several were growing on our property, and it was really good. She didn’t do it again though, because it’s such a hassle getting rid of the needles. Even after the big needles are removed, there are tiny needle tufts that are a challenge to remove.
I really think you're one of the best people. My grandmom used to get these long lemon candies that had a hole through the center, like a lemon candy straw. She would cut a hole in a lemon and stick the candy straw in the lemon so it was like drinking lemonade right from the fruit. That takes me right back to summer as a kid
I've seen people that by peeling this by hand end up full of tiny spines. The one she has on hand had been clean out...but the spines are like fine fur, use gloves or clean really well the skin before handling
My sister and I once saw prickly pears growing on one of our cactus plants by the pool here in South Africa. We love the taste but never saw one growing on a cactus, only in boxes where we used to buy them. We had no idea they had so many almost invisible spikes/thorns on them. After about 5 minutes we were covered in these spikes/thorns to the point where I had a fever attack (my body went into shock). I was like 6 years old and my sister was 3. I still love the taste though and to this day looooove the fruit. I just don't peel or pick them 😅
They're all over southern Arizona and you have to burn or cut off all of the tiny thorns. There aren't many thornless varieties here in the Arizona. We make jelly with them every year, at least, when there's enough rain for the cacti to produce fruit
I prefer the green ones over the red ones, red ones I find a bit too mushy, and pretty sweet. The green ones have a nice little crispness in it, and are not as sweet. But still pretty good, sometimes tasting a little bit floral.
There are different colors from light green to dark red. If you pick them off the cactus be very careful since they have very tiny thorns. We sweep with an old broom, rinse and then cut. Best when refrigerated. Ripe on late July and August in Southern California. 😋
Ok it might be called savana in some Arabic slang but in formal Arabic it’s called teen shaoki which translates to “prickly figs” so we have a word common with the English name .. funny part is I think it’s common also with the Spanish name too cause teen is a similar to teen and looking as the shared history between Arab and Spain Id say it’s possible
There was a fruit growing on a cactus at my grandmas house that I ate thinking it was a prickly pear but it wasn’t lol I’m glad I didn’t die or something.
except for a few rare varieties, most cactus plants are edible. avoid any spineless cacti because they have hallucinogenic properties and are likely poisonous. these 3 will kill out outright: Peyote Cactus, San Pedro Cactus, Bolivian Torch Cactus
There’s a prickly pear craze right now and it’s like coconut water 2.0. Prickly pear juice, prickly pear water… Surprisingly this is a popular fruit but it’s not utilized very much
I first had these in the Canary Islands. They called them igo piko. Even though I have had them here in the US but they have never been as good as those ones I had in the islands.
Definitely brings memories visiting Mexico they’re so sweet you wouldn’t expect it from a cactus
They not that sweet u drugged it Lmfaoo
@@danielserrata792 your joke doesn’t make sense but ok
In Italy is super common! :D especially in the south, and it's called Fico D'India, which it ì mean 'fig from India'!
Ironically enough, I've never heard of it in India
@@vrindayadav its more common in northern states
@Chiara Orefice That’s so funny, it’s just like how a female turkey in French is called La Dinde meaning “from India” (d’Inde) when it is actually from America haha. Interesting how that geographical misunderstanding carries for so long in our vocabulary.
I’m Indian and I’ve never seen this.. only in the Disney jungle book cartoon
@@vrindayadav it’s actually not very common, but pretty old actually. It’s called नागफनी।
Fondest memory is of my grandfather cleaned this for me and feeding me pieces when I was young
There are loads in Southern Italy too! I'm from the North, so the only way I can get them is from the supermarket, but they are delicious!
You're lucky, getting them from the plant is a pain! You literally must wait for a thunderstorm to happen before harvesting them, because it washes off the evil, invisible splinters!
Those pictures of baby Beryl were so cute!
Hi Beryl, can you please provide small sized captions for us? Thank you so much in advance. I really enjoy your contents!
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I just sent them all out for CC to just make it easier! Should be up in an hour or so
@@BerylShereshewsky Thank you for the information, I appreciate this!
@@thegags Thank you for the information! 😀
I've had a lot of hummus growing up in the Middle East. Now that i am back to my native India, I don't get the chance to eat hummus as much. I recently tried recreating it at home, and thankfully it turned out decent, although far from the original one. And it transported me right back to my childhood. 😍
Yup, food/tastes definitely bring back vivid memories. ❤️
I’m afraid the only thing I remember of eating a prickly pear were the 4 spines lodged into my thumb that the grocery store missed :(
Oh i hope you know that its not just obvious spines but there is micro spines. That why you wear gloves at all time to pick, wash and peel.
Same they left the little tiny ones in it
These are perfect for the hot weather, the green ones are my favorite
Wow, I'd never seen a ripe one! They're like fruit rubies hehe
This made me chuckle hehe
That fruit is also eaten in the south of italy. Here it is called "fico d'India". I love the sweet taste when they are ripe
I saw the cactus for the 1st time
Still i have memories attached to it
In BIOLOGY, i learnt :-“In Australia (1920), Prickly pear cactus grew over million of grassland and created havoc ,because there was no predator of it.
later, Cactophagus moth (a predator of prickly pear cactus) was introduced.
Hence , population of prickly pear cactus came under control."
🤞
Potato & hamburger soup. It reminds me of my late mum, and sharing a fall or winter meal together. I've tweaked the recipe a bit, it's still really simple and I think, very yummy.
Wait what hamburger soup
I remember eating those from street vendors in Egypt and Jordan! Very good, but super annoying when it comes to getting the pricks out of your thumb
I have this plant in my garden
Oh you're lucky I was watching this and drooling, it makes me home sick , but the Yellow ones not red ones
Actually Sabbar means Cactus but this fruit it’s called in Arabic Tean Shawky witch translates to Spiked Figs. Some Dialects call it otherwise.
Seeing you hold the prickly pear like that... the only memory I have is my Fingers stinging for days after eating my first one
They clean them here for
You!
Tunas are one of my fav fruits! Brings me back when I was in Mexico as a kid. The red ones were my favourite!
I'm so proud to be Mexican we have some of the best things
@@angyrodriguez3623 Yes my family used to make Agua de Tuna
Beryl, you must either have teeth made of titanium or there must be different varieties of prickly pears because the seeds in the ones I've ever had were harder than rocks! Lol.
Yes! Exactly my experience! I got one at the store once to try it out and ended up not eating it because it was so loaded with those little BBs.
@@erinrobinson6436 I just "eat around the seeds" and spit them out. I know people who just swallow them, but I've never heard anyone chewing them for extra crunch... Lol. But that's just me.
They seeds are soft on these!
@@BerylShereshewsky Interesting... Had never one of those... Maybe a different variety ...? Or may the seeds get harder as the fruits mature...? I have to investigate this. Haha.
Tunas are the best! We used to always eat them when they were in season since we had nopales and other fruit trees at home in Mexico! My mom always added a bit of salt and lime to make them even tastier 😋
Many species of prickly pear cacti are also native throughout North America… pretty much everywhere from Mexico to Canada. They grown not just in the desert, but can also be found in the southeast where it’s pretty wet and as far north as Alberta and Connecticut.
I actually prefer the green ones. I grew up eating Tuna all the time. Yum ❤️❤️ good memories for sure
Looks like dragon fruit
That hair is 🔥
Mangos remind me of time spent in South America. Spanish rice reminds me of the rare occasions my mom was in a good mood.
Actually the emotional part of the brain (the limbic system) was originally called the 'rhynencephilon' (nose brain)... because in many species smell and taste are pure emotion.
Lol in Israel we call locals Tzabars from the name of this fruit - maybe a bit prickly on the outside but sweet on the inside
Yes! young Beryl was equally cool looking
In Egypt we call it "Tein shouki" which means thorny figs
My grandma LOVED tunas growing up. We would often go mushroom picking and she was a master forager. My dad said he didn't even consider taking fruit off of a tree that wasn't his (it was in public) until he met my grandmother
Foods indeed brings back memories so does music. Eating the favourite food of some particular people reminds me of them everytime I eat it.
In Portuguese that fruit is called figo da India (indian fig) and it's pretty much everywhere, we can pick them up from the side of the road. But please, please be careful and always use gloves: if they're not store bought they have nasty almost invisible spines that really hurt and will stay in your skin foreevveeerrr (you'll feel them for a few days when touching things). Other than that, delicious!!
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In egypt we call it (تين شوكي), (teen shoky) same exterior but from the inside its more on the yellow and orange side.
Love these!
Hi Beryl! We also have them in Greece due to really hot weather in some places and we call it "φραγκόσυκο" (frankósyko)!!!
Just like watermelon, the seeds give that little bit of crunch! 🍉🤣🤣🤣
It is SO common in India and it's been talked about in ancient books for the folks who don't know. We don't eat the seeds as I've heard they lead to kidney stones and they are not easily digested. It's mostly washed thoroughly, boiled with sugar/molasses/gud and black salt, then strained into a puree to be refrigerated. Excellent summer juice!
Forgot to add they are at times roasted in open fire like marshmallows and then skinned while the juice is oozing out. So juicy and yum. My memories of it in summers.. growing up with my mom making them in the fire where my house was next to a barrier of these plants near a farm mostly planted by farmers to keep the cattle in and unwanted people out.
I don't really have foods that bring back memories but there are so many smells that do
I am absolutely in love with her earrings in every video and her simple and sophisticated presentation of videos 😄✌🏻
In fact, tuna does that for me☺️ I’m from Mexico 🇲🇽
Ice apples! They're so soft and juicy and each time I eat them I'm reminded of my summer holidays when my grandfather would peel them for me and we all ate them together
Yum! We call them turksvye in South Africa - directly translates to Turkish Fig (no idea why!). We usually turn them into jam or juice. 😊
In Tunisia it's really popular and we call it hindi
Tuna, watermelon and mangos are the fruits of the GODS
I live in Arizona. My neighbor lets me cut these off his cacti every year. I always offer to prepare them for him but he just scoffs. More for me, Eric! :-)
Watermelon always reminds me of childhood & summer!
When I lived in the mountains in New Mexico we had cactus as part of landscaping around the pool. Loved eating the sweet cactus fruit. Great memories.
These are all over Arizona. Prickly pear jelly is yummy.
As a child in middle East it used to be my favourite fruit, we used to buy big quantities and fight over it with my siblings lol, absolutely delicious. Nowadays not as delicious, such a shame.
Oranges and the smell of orange blossoms. My grandparents lived on the edge of an orange orchard where my grandfather was the foreman. And I spent every waking moment at my grandparents house because we lived down the road.
Love these omg from Zimbabwe
Boiled and peeled chestnuts remind me of winter time in Kuwait. It was an imported item in Kuwait, doesn't grow there and it was quite expensive but our father bought it for us several times in winter
nopales grow native throughout the US as well!
I learned to make chili from my mum, who learned it in Arizona. It reminds me of Christmas caroling because we had a big party for many years, go caroling and eat chili afterward.
@Catherine Bond Was your mum American? I noticed the British spelling but you mentioned Arizona. My mom was from Liverpool, and married my American dad, and settled here in the USA.
I don't know where in the Arab world they call it Sabata but we do call the plant "Sabbar" in Arabic and call the fruit "Karmouss" or "Handia" here in Morocco.
I’m Spain we call them “higos chumbos” and we cultivate a lot of them here. Specially in the Canary Islands (that are tropical islands in Africa) and in Andalucía (southern region of Spain). They came here from the Viceroyalty of New Spain (modern day Mexico), but it’s territory was much bigger (from Alaska all the way to Costa Rica, including all the Mid West of the USA, Florida, Louisiana…)
My grandpa and I used to eat the green ones together! They're so good
Yes they are delicious but a word of advice: be careful eating too many of the seeds. Because prickly pears are desert fruits they are great at absorbing moisture. Therefore , if you eat too many you will become very constipated.
We have native prickly pear cactus growing here in New Mexico and Arizona. Mom picked some when my brother and I were preteens after we’d moved out of town and several were growing on our property, and it was really good. She didn’t do it again though, because it’s such a hassle getting rid of the needles. Even after the big needles are removed, there are tiny needle tufts that are a challenge to remove.
I really think you're one of the best people.
My grandmom used to get these long lemon candies that had a hole through the center, like a lemon candy straw. She would cut a hole in a lemon and stick the candy straw in the lemon so it was like drinking lemonade right from the fruit. That takes me right back to summer as a kid
Young beryl with beiber haircut>>>>
Star fruit is what bring me back to my childhood.
I've seen people that by peeling this by hand end up full of tiny spines. The one she has on hand had been clean out...but the spines are like fine fur, use gloves or clean really well the skin before handling
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My sister and I once saw prickly pears growing on one of our cactus plants by the pool here in South Africa. We love the taste but never saw one growing on a cactus, only in boxes where we used to buy them. We had no idea they had so many almost invisible spikes/thorns on them. After about 5 minutes we were covered in these spikes/thorns to the point where I had a fever attack (my body went into shock). I was like 6 years old and my sister was 3. I still love the taste though and to this day looooove the fruit. I just don't peel or pick them 😅
They're all over southern Arizona and you have to burn or cut off all of the tiny thorns. There aren't many thornless varieties here in the Arizona. We make jelly with them every year, at least, when there's enough rain for the cacti to produce fruit
Nice to see “Emo Beryl”😌
The green variety is awesome too!
I prefer the green ones over the red ones, red ones I find a bit too mushy, and pretty sweet. The green ones have a nice little crispness in it, and are not as sweet. But still pretty good, sometimes tasting a little bit floral.
There are different colors from light green to dark red. If you pick them off the cactus be very careful since they have very tiny thorns. We sweep with an old broom, rinse and then cut. Best when refrigerated. Ripe on late July and August in Southern California. 😋
Ok it might be called savana in some Arabic slang but in formal Arabic it’s called teen shaoki which translates to “prickly figs” so we have a word common with the English name .. funny part is I think it’s common also with the Spanish name too cause teen is a similar to teen and looking as the shared history between Arab and Spain Id say it’s possible
It’s also a common fruit in Malta in Summer :)
You definitely have to try pitayas and guamuchiles from Nayarit, Mexico.
Omg you look like a different person ! Crazy 😧❤️
It's very popular in Sicily, where is called "fico d'india", Indian fig.
They even make jams out of it.
I love prickly pear jellies 🥰
I just found out these can be grown surprisingly far north as long as the climate isn't too soggy.
I own some property in Southern Arizona. I harvest pears every year and make jams and jellies out of them.
Prickly pear margaritas 🍹
Yo soy de México y si e probado la tuna verde 🌵
I grew them back home in Alabama we used the fruit and leaves. Yummy. I have one child who is allergic to catus
Never had the fruit, but Nopales is very popular in Fresno, CA’s Hispanic population and people who know what’s up with great food!!!
El agua de tuna es exquisita, la tuna en si es deliciosa tmb
In Italy we call them "fichi d'india" and there're different colors beside the red one, like yellow and green
There was a fruit growing on a cactus at my grandmas house that I ate thinking it was a prickly pear but it wasn’t lol I’m glad I didn’t die or something.
except for a few rare varieties, most cactus plants are edible. avoid any spineless cacti because they have hallucinogenic properties and are likely poisonous. these 3 will kill out outright: Peyote Cactus, San Pedro Cactus, Bolivian Torch Cactus
In Hebrew, it’s “Sabra”.
Meh you learned it from Arabic
I remember Bhaloo eating it in the animated Disney Jungle book film in the Bare necessicities song
My mom is obsessed with this fruit. Everytime she goes to Morocco she buys a kilo and devours eat in a day 😂
Try caña!!!! I like it with fresh lime juice, pinch of salt and Valentina hot sauce 😍
My Nono used to get prickly pears for us they so good 😍
We have them everywhere here in Texas. They make great jelly.
Omg, you looked so much like Lilly from HIMYM 😄
We used to get bags of chumbos when we lived in Spain at the open air markets. So juicy and good!
There’s a prickly pear craze right now and it’s like coconut water 2.0. Prickly pear juice, prickly pear water… Surprisingly this is a popular fruit but it’s not utilized very much
My dad picked these all the time and they're soo juicy and delicious but it was a different type of cactus in 🇿🇦
I had that as candy when I visit Arizona. It’s good
I first had these in the Canary Islands. They called them igo piko. Even though I have had them here in the US but they have never been as good as those ones I had in the islands.
Omg that hair looks bomb on you 😍😍
I’m from Arizona! We eat those all the time. Jams made from it are super good for saltines
We called these ifijoro when I was kid. I'm South African. I'm absolutely positive they aren't native to us lol.
My grandma just came back from Mexico and she just brought them and I just tried one and it’s so good