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"Ophelia" wrote:

Billy wrote:
If you can't beat them, join them and do as I do with my dandelions,
I eat them. Prickly pears are free food and can double as a primer,
if you decide to whitewash your house ;O). The fruit is supposed
to taste like water melon (or was that chicken? No, I'm sure it is
watermelon:O).

Hello I am new here I followed a friend in

I have eaten a lot of prickly pears when I lived in Malta. Yes, they are a
bit like melon but have biggish seeds in them and they are delicious. If you
touch the outer skin, the fine hairs will penetrate into your skin and they
are sore. The people with carts that sold them house to house in Malta,
used to cut the skin, turn them inside out and offer them, to allow the
customer to take out the fruit themselves. The skin on their hands were
hard.

best

Ophelia UK

Welcome O'! :-)

This is a good list.

Mom taught me to torch cactus fruit to get rid of the tiny spines.
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