"Martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:39:23 +1000, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given
wrote:

"Dave Hill" wrote in message
This year whilst i was in Malta I bought a Veg in the marrow family
which a friend thought was called the 100 year fruit? but I wont
swear
to this as the stall I bought it of knew no english name for it.
Pics at http://www.twango.com/channel/Taffy4u2.Unknown

I agree with Mike Lyle. It's a choko (or chayote as the Merkins call
them).
If he is as old as I am, he and I would both no doubt have ghastly
similar
mamories of it from childhood. Chokoes steamed and served as a veg,
chokoes
stewed with apples and served as a dessert etc ad nauseum............

They grow like a weed in a warm climate and are capable of enveloping
the
outhouse, the tool shed, the chook house, parked cars and strangling
unwary
gardeners in their beds (and that is only one plant).

Recipe here
http://www.smart.com.mt/recipes/stuffedmarrows.shtml

You can't really do that with a choko: they're too small and irregular.
And anyway, why should anybody in their right mind want to? Even
pumpkin's better. . . well, almost: at least a choko tastes of nothing.

--
Mike.



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