These are the kind of persimmons that you have to eat while soft and ripe or they taste funny. I think you would call them Asian persimmons.
I do have a friend that has the kind of persimmons that you can eat like an apple. I like those also. They are very sweet and crunchy. I could eat a bunch of those.
Let's get back to the kind of persimmons that I have. Like I said to eat them fresh you have to wait till they are really ripe.
I remember as a kid someone gave our family some of these persimmons. My mom gave me a slice. I tasted it and thought, what kind of a fruit is this? It had a funny taste. The thing is that we ate the persimmon too early.
That reminds me of a friend that went to the farmers market and bought a bag of the persimmons that I have. Then she tasted it and knew she bought the kind that she didn't want. So she gave me the whole bag that she bought.
Well I took that bag to my moms as she likes to dry those types of persimmons. Yes, she slices them up while they are still firm. Somehow the drying process makes them taste good.
Mom likes to give them away as Christmas presents. So I supply her with most of the persimmons on my tree. I save some so I can have a soft sweet snack.
My mom also likes making cookies out of these persimmons. I wouldn't mind having one of those cookies right now.
When I first moved into my house back in 1990, the tree was already there and producing. So I don't even know how old the tree is. I can tell you that I have been able to eat from this tree for 28 years now. Has it been that long since I moved in?
So those three persimmons in the picture I picked already and put them on top of my refrigerator and when they get darker in color and really soft is when I will eat them.
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Image is mine, taken with my Moto G.