I hereby declare the prickly pear season OPEN!
Not a prickly pear, but a cactus in the local Chinese Takeaway. And yes, it’s real… still pulling the darn spines out of my fingers…!
Pretty Pricklies
Lady Of The Cakes
Vignettes from a multi-lingual, multi-cake-eating freelance existence
Lady Of The Cakes 
I thought it was going to be stir fried and served with soy sauce!
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That would involve cooking… you see the problem…
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Daft question but can you eat them??
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I think you can… or maybe it’s just specific varieties that taste good…? Well, I don’t think anyone goes round Toledo collecting them to eat, or at least I’m not aware of it.
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They eat prickly pear in Sicily, they call them fichi d’india. Mrs Sensible loves them but I am not to fussed over them.
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Am not that passionate about them… but maybe they make good jam…?
Am getting into pomegranates.
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No idea about the jam, they just cut the spines of and eat them raw. Anyway back to bacon butties….
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I love looking at these. Eating, though, I wouldn’t recommend. I’ve tried it and it’s a lot of work to prepare for a mediocre taste.
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Yeah, they are very pipsy
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I’ve got the Jungle Book song in my head now!
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I’ve got a pic later that’ll propel you into seventh heaven…
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Hmm, we’ll see!
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Me too…that song is infectious….Now when you pick a pawpaw, Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw, Next time beware
Don’t pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw.
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That film sure was Disney’s masterpiece, sigh.
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I made “agua de tuna” last night, and I still have spines in my fingers today! Still haven’t learnt how to handle these prickly beings spine free! Love them!
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Pesky!
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