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A fruit that tastes like strawberries and pineapple had a secret, slightly sedated affair.
means The soursop fruit — a spiky-skinned tropical fruit with sweet-tart white flesh, used in smoothies, ice cream, and juices across Latin America and the Caribbean.
from Borrowed by Spanish from an Indigenous Caribbean language — likely Taino or Arawak — the word traveled into English more or less intact as guanabana. Its botanical cousin name, soursop, is a plainer Dutch-English hybrid ('zuurzak,' sour sack), describing the same tart, custardy pulp from the opposite linguistic direction.
- also called
- soursop, if you want the boring name
- texture warning
- custardy flesh, looks like it is molting
- folk remedy fame
- claimed to cure everything, proven to cure nothing conclusively
- seeds
- toxic, so chew responsibly, not adventurously