Crazy Looking Melons in Algeria - Weird Fruit Explorer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Episode: 698 Melon
Species: Cucumis melo
Location: Algiers, Algeria
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Just remembered your channel out of nowhere, and wanted to watch it again, I managed to find your channel again by typing "fruit guy"
i am algerian and i never had it before . we agerians love watermelon the most
Now that I realize you ate all that fruit in one day, I am moved by your sacrifice. Thank you for your service
He's gonna have the clearest bowels in the Northern hemisphere
After growing up with a grandfather who grew his own cantaloupe, I kept trying the store ones for years. It wasn't until i got a house & grwe my own that I finally had a good melon again.
Yes! More melon, squash, and gourd content!
The word "canteloupe" applies to a group of cultivars that are quite different from one another, who share an ancestor that came from the Italian village of Cantalupo.
The one you ate in this video is a Charentais, created in the French region of Charentes, but are also produced in the Maghreb region, due to colonization. The Charentais is hands down the best canteloupe variety. It is ripe when the apex is soft and thin.
thank u for expanding my knowledge sir🙌
I second the thanks, Mr. Melon Man
Cucurbita ficifolia, it's not sweet because they harvested it under-ripe to cook it as a pumpkin. Otherwise it can be eaten raw as a fruit when fully ripe. It's a very productive plant and even its seeds, leaves and flowers are edible.
Really cool that it can be a pumpkin or a sweet fruit. Versatile af!
Dude, I think we appreciate what you do, no matter HOW you do it. Thanks for the video. I thought it looked great 👍... old skool is cool
Yes! I definitely appreciate him filming cool fruits and their places and back stories!
I appreciate that 🙏
@@WeirdExplorer totally agreed with Shelly!!
The herb silphium of ancient Roman fame (not to be confused with the modern genus silphium) has recently been rediscovered in Capadokia, Turkey. Should your travels take you that way, I would be highly interested in a review.
You mean Ferula drudeana? I doubt that he will be able to taste it. The plant is categorized as critically endangered. There are a couple hundred plants growing in botanical gardens, so maybe through that, but I'll doubt that he'll get his hands on it.
Apicius describes a lesser quality substitute, that he might be able to taste: Ferula asafoetida. Though it is described as tasting not nearly as good as silphion.
@@philipilgen7653 indeed, that is what I mean. Taking some specimen to investigate its culinary and medicinal uses and properties together with some seeds for propagation experiments is normal practice in researching endangered species and actually helps it's survival
@@zeideerskine3462 ...I like him but "Random TH-camr who wants to eat it" is not someone you entrust with a critically endangered plant. That's silly. And do you have any source for "Taking critically endangered plants and investigating it's culinary uses" being "normal practice"? That SOUNDS insane on the face of it, so I kinda need more than just you saying it, you know? It doesn't matter what culinary properties it has, they aren't trying to grow it so people can eat it. And even the potential to create incentive for a black market is something to be avoided at all costs, the last thing you want is a bunch of rich assholes trying to steal plants to eat them.
@@zeideerskine3462 As I said: It is already growing in botanical gardens, they propagated it successfully (Yeah!). They already made culinary experiments to gauge if it really may be silphion. The national geographic made an article on it. Search for: "This miracle plant was eaten into extinction 2,000 years ago-or was it?"
Tasting History, has a wonderful espisode dedicated to this subject and it's culinary use
Now you should try the super weird watermelon that is very light green in color and have no stripes, found commonly in Algeria.
I write to you from Turkey, where a similar variety of Watermelon grows wildly in the steppes of the Central Anatolian plateau, but our version is sour and lacks both sweetness and color, whereas in Algeria, it is definitely a “Sweet Watermelon”.
Cherries, figs and peaches are telling me that this video was made in Summer.
I know you're not a fan of melons, but I LOVE seeing them in your vids!
The Sad Cucumber of Algeria, by William Burroughs. Great book that never existed
That cucumber melon looks a lot like "Cooking Melon". Plus it taste very similar to what you described as well. " Cooking Melon is quite popular vegetable in Sri Lanka and locals cook it with spices to eat it with rice.
that's probably why!
@@WeirdExplorer I think just cause you're unlucky to buy these fruits 😅 the cucumber melon 🍈 you can just made a juice with a few sugar and that's all !
We have them in India as well. Google Mangalore cucumber. It is used for Sambar, a watery dish that goes with rice.
No way you're in my country!! I hope you have an amazing stay!!!! The fruits here are quite savoury and sweet, would love to know what u think of them.
This is not a really common melon on Algeria , first time I see it tbh ( I'm Algerian ) .
The common ones comes out in July, august ( natural ones ) .. and are FANTASTIC .
Excuse me for not giving more useful informations about it cuz I'm not a fruit expert , but I'm sure I'll taste the best melons , cantaloupes and especially watermelons of ur LIFE if u come back in August .
Have a nice day , enjoy ur journey
I believe the first melon could be a cucumber melon they are quite popular in morocco as well, they are true melons but are used like cucumbers in salads.
Cantaloupes and honeydew do definitely ripen (continue to convert starches to sugars) once picked and generally should be ripened. Watermelon does not.
They only do if they're picked after the tendril has fully dried and the fruit is nearly ready to drop from its stem! If you pick it anytime before that it will taste like pure rind all the way through and the only use will be as a big cucumber and you can cook the seeds and they taste just like sunflower seeds!
No. They dont.
Right!!
@@GoldenBoy-et6of At the end of the season in Greece and Turkey, they pick the unripe ones and pickle them. I'm sure they do it all around the Mediterranean, it just makes sense. And they're delicious!
@@sazji hmm sounds interesting, I might try that. Btw in Russia they pickle watermelon rinds. I really want to try it next time I buy watermelon. It sounds amazing and I love finding use to stuff I usually throw away.
I'm from Algeria and those are rare and expensive, we don't usually eat them, I've never eaten them before.
the majority love the yellow ones in shape of lemon, and other type with web in the skin some call it cantaloupe.
The only way to get ripe fruit in the USA is to grow it yourself.
Or farmers markets or farm stands.
It seems harder and harder to get good fruit in the USA (where I live).
@@itzel1735 Not here. Peach farmer insisted his rock hard peaches would ripen. They rotted. The farmers must figure people are used to green like at supermarkets.
@@terryenglish7132 Sad. I’ve got access to great local farm produce.
I am Algerian, it's the first time I see this fruit !!
I have been using butter knives more recently, since I am teaching a young child how to use a knife, and I have learned that they cut quite a bit that I didn't expect it to.
Aw an Algerian I'm so happy to know you're in Algeria!
You said Melonee.... I immediately had a flashback of Iron Chef when the lady said she liked the Peaness of a dish🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't usually eat much fruit but i love watching this channel, and i really feel like i'm travelling with you. keep it up, sir!
The spotted/ splotched melon kinda reminds me of a Casaba, Piel De Sapo or several of the Turkish type melons. Casaba is never really sweet and picked underripe does have a distinct cumber flavor. Not a fave of everyone but, properly ripened its pretty good to my taste. Am growing the Charentais variety this year as well as Casaba, Crenshaw, Piel De Sapo, Honeydew and a new one to me Branca Do Ribantejo (Portugues) that really impressed me last season. It would be easy to get addicted to melons. Love your videos...Keep em coming!! Randy/GA (USA)
I am a Huge fan of melons ...! Happy to see you reviewing them ...! Cheers !
For some reason the first melon struck me as a possible substitute for bitter melon in Asian cooking. It is very different but maybe it has a somewhat similar taste and is used in similar ways in North Africa? Just guessing, and I might be quite wrong.
Exactly we use it as a vegetable
The texture of the first one reminds me Piel de Sapo melon. Have you tried it? I was never a fan of melons too until I tried it. It has no melon flavor which is quite interesting and is more like an advantage to me, and it's perfectly balanced with sweetness, sourness, juiciness and even... It's slightly salty which fits perfectly.
I really love your video's! 😊
Thank you so much!
1st one you tasted, is called Madras Cumcumber or Dosakai /dosekai here in India. They are oblong and there are different types in those too. It grows wild in Southern coast of India especially Andhra pradesh and Tamil Nadu.It used to grow freel in our backyards.
Its used as vegetable for chutneys, sambar and curries.
Would be interesting to hear you talk about the supermarket "cantelopes" more (if you haven't already)
What exactly would you want him to say that you can't find a million other places? Everyone can try it for themselves, and there are countless people talking about it online already given how common it is. It is basically the opposite of a weird fruit that you have to explore to find.
i do love pure good melon flavor like Cantaloupe i call the American ones American Cantaloupes i saw this variety in Gurney's years back in their awesome Catalog's both varieties id love to grow them both one day what an amazing video and that cucumber melon doesn't look all that appetizing but would do good for a very hot day though.
Love those melons, they are excellent and sweet like ripe honey melons if almost overriped but taste like cucumber if unriped or green. Export it to austria if its season and selling it at turkish fruit vendors pretty cheap.
melon!!! yum! Seeing the inside i thought the pretty one was gonna taste cucumbery, i guess i was right
They sell those cantaloupe melons here in the grocery stores for slightly more than the regular ones. I’ve only been buying them for a few years now. I’m looking forward to seeing them again now that it’s summer
from your description on the taste, sounds like it's similar to a winter melon?
there is a mexican fruit salad called bionicos its just fruits (cantaloupe, banana+, apple and strawberry) with a watery cream made with half sour cream and half condensed milk and a dash of vanilla extract just load it with that cream mixture and omg.... if you use the cheap sour cream just add a little bit of milk so its a little bit runny and omg i am craving some cantaloupe rn
It might be a wild veriety of melon! Alot of wild melon verities and cucumber verities contain super bitter super poisnonous compounds but some have a small enough amount that its only barely bitter so those might just be native melons that people sometimes eat even tho their not that good but probably dont cultivate them!
I thought everything you said right before you said it lol, you and me, on the same wavelength.
😂💀 two huge bites and you Protest "I DON'T LIKE IT" then followed by Three More HUGE bites 🤣🤣🤣
I fuck¡n love ya broski 🤩
It’s thanks to you I take the edge off of American chain grocery store bought melons with tajin. I can’t wait for the summer to buy home grown melons at the farmers market again, but you’ve made eating melons during winter in New England bearable! A true MAGA (melons are good again) !!!
It has no flavor because it is in the Cucumis melo inodorus group, like canary melon and Christmas melon, they have a very long shelf life (some varieties over 3 months) compared to Cantaloupes but they don't have the musky smell of Cantaloupes.
I absolutely love cantaloupe.
Oh dang, I was expecting an entirely different type of video, with this title. That's ok, I like fruit too
I used to work with a guy who would put salt on his fruit. I often thought that was a little strange. Now I think I know why.
Because going from salty to sweet makes the sweet, sweeter. That's the reason why salted caramel is so popular. Me personally, I prefer without.
This reminded me that I should grow some melons
interested in knowing if that tast like the white part of watermelon always loved the white part.
That mottled one that looks like Piel de Sapo, could be Bateekh Samara. Said to be citrusy and cucumber like.
It's like Pumpkin, for cooking.
I thought this was going to be a TOTALLY different video
0:04 That one in your right hand looks more like a squash than a melon, I swear my grandma has in the past grown squash with the same general shape and mottled yellow-green coloration.🤔
I've seen melons in the supermarket that looked and tasted like no.1.
You will see rare/heirloom varieties of melons sold at Farmers Markets or ethnic markets in California, but they are seasonal and quite pricey compared to your typical honeydew or cantaloupe. I will say some of them do taste much better than your typical honeydew or cantaloupe. They can't be sold at mass retailers or large grocery chains because they bruise or spoil too easily since they tend to be much softer on the outside than honeydew/cantaloupe.
If you come in italy there are some very special types of cucumbers that look like melons, or the opposite xD i never found such kind of melon anywhere in italy, it's only in Puglia. It's a melon that taste like a cucumber actually.
It's probably related to this fruit, but is very different.
WIth melons, it's not a given that it will be as sweet as it's supposed to be. Same type of melon but different vendor can differ a lot. Maybe not in Algeria but it's the case here in Turkey (and most likely you took that into account and asked if the melons you bought were decent ones idk 😃)
melon is so goooood
Really thought it was a gourd/squash/etc at first
Hello . I'd love to know your opinion as a foreigner about the fruit's flavor here in Algeria. As Algerian that has been to European countries. I found that fruits out there do not have the same flavour intensity as in Algeria. So I'd love to know what do you think about this matter. Thank you
It looks like a roundish Sambar Soute or Mangalore cucumber. The way you describe it it states like one. Rarely eaten raw here.
I lived in Algeria for 3 months (Near constantine) and I never saw this melon in the market. I wish I could taste it
I'm algerian and ive never seen that melon in my entire life ;-;
That first fruit in Algeria we call it Shemmam, and it's not really eaten at all, people just buy it to look it and to smell it.
💚from algeria
the first one is madras cucumber, i think. it is used for cooking in south india
Cucumis melo agrestis var conomon - oriental pickling melon from Serendipity seeds looks like the first one a bit.
I love cantaloupe!
also try the Judean date
“Cantaloupes” in the US are actually Musk melons. (At least according to my grandmother)
It was probably meant for salad with dressing.
Mans found a Devilfruit deadass🍈
Could that first melon be a cooking melon? Maybe the good people of Algeria use it for making preserves or pickles?
Am I saying it wrong is it VegTABull or VEGIABLE or is it one of those words you can so both ways?
So Mutfruit from Fallout originated from Algeria, cool. 😂
the first one is pumpkin like
usually you cook it and eat with coscos
maybe take home seeds of that one for that mate with the orchard
"Hello everyone, I'm in Algeria right now, and I've got Melancholia"... is what my weary brain almost thought you were about to say. I WILL eat fruit in a few minutes, but will ride the tailend of fasting with vicarious, virtual eating through your fruitology, as a delectable, spiritual appetizer 😋🙏 Jarred--->Weird Fruit Explorer---> reliable, wholesomely substantial content ALWAYS. Thank you💚
Algerian here, that's not really a cantaloup it's more of a "gourd" if that makes sense? It grows in the desert and people use it for medicine and to treat animals, we don't consume it as a "fruit"
Exactly lived in the desert for 8 years and i used to hear people there's saying that it's not eatable
Try canary melons they are good
here you go! th-cam.com/video/ApDZSqpUJMI/w-d-xo.html
Algeria is sixth in the world in the production of watermelons of all kinds
I can't eat fruit safely, it makes me really ill (inc culinary veg if not cooked to death) but damn that cantelope looks delicious!!
When I was a kid what we call "cantaloupes" now were always called "muskmelons" (or if you were really country, "mushmelons"). I wonder if the renaming can be blamed on marketing to city folks?
I wonder if the green melon would be good to add to a salad if it tastes like a cucumber.
It's like a cucumber, but a sad cucumber :c
The mottled melon looks more like a wax gourd when you open it.
That first melon is screaming to get pickled like a watermelon rind.
I think you found the elusive salad melon.
The first one looks like a Thrace Melon
That first one might just be an old/not highly cultivated cultivar?
could be!
Bitter in this family means Cucubitacine, which means poison.
If you barely can taste it, it wont kill you straight on, but at least give you the runners😜
That melon is very odd because it looks almost exactly like some varieties of Citrullus colocynthis, except the seed distribution and color look wrong.
try to make it
THAT MELON WOULD BE GOOD FOR SALADS OR JAMS
I'm Algerian never seen that kind of melons in my life maybe it's imported.
With melons like honeydew and cantaloupe I smell them on the ends of it smells sweet it will be. The lady in the market says to me "nobodys gonna want the fruit after you've finished squeezing and sniffing them!"
I don't know how she thinks you're supposed to pick out fruit
My friend from India taught me to pick mangos that way. It works well but unfortunately the mangos where I live rarely smell at all and don't taste very good. When I was a child you rarely could find a mango but when you did they were good.
@@johnnyearp52 I do the same...most of the mangoes I find are the tommy Atkins mango and aren't very good at all.
@@h.Freeman the mangos in the stores are selected for length of shelf life, and are rarely good. the small yellow ones (atulfo) are ok.
if you want good mangos, you have to grow them yourself, or you have to live somewhere that mangos are locally grown, like florida or hawaii.
@@michaelgusovsky Atulfo mangos are more likely to be good.
My favorite fruits are mangos but I rarely bother to buy the tasteless ones available now.
All organic and fresh vegetables and fruits.
You should scoop the meat out and mix in sugar
I am Algerian and I have never seen that first melon. I wonder if it's imported
What do you do for a living? Probably youtube isn't all that you do, if I'm not mistaking. Cheers!
The populare mason in Algeria is yellow how did you miss it look like 🏈
Their not cantaloupes??
Most “ cantaloupe” isn’t he US is actually a type of muskmelon.