# How do you eat your kiwi? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 6, 2003, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678 "2003-11-06T08:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/41 "2003-11-09T07:13:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \* > \*\ ***Lok** , mate, you’d be _real_ popular if you ever made it down here. Oh, my! 🙂 \*\* Well, I was not all _that_ popular on my last trip downunder. But then I didn’t make it to New Zealand that time. 😉 Lok ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/42 "2003-11-09T12:34:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lok \* > \*\*Well, I was not all _that_ popular on my last trip downunder. \*\* Yes, but have you ever been to Australia? ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/43 "2003-11-09T23:31:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by A Curious Writer \* > \*\*Apollyon (your name reminds me of the Left Behind book 🙂 \*\* \ Yes… sad. 🙂 I was quite surprised when I saw that book. FWIW, I’ve not read any of that series, rather I’m an agnostic with an interest in angelology (from a more historical perspective than a fluffy pink cherub, or religious one) and found poor Apollyon/ Apollion/ Abbadon rather fascinating as a character who in Revelations (as the angel with the key to the abyss – as in the [Durer woodcut](http://www.geocities.com/eleonoreweil/durerus/den/w27.html)) is an upright angel of the Lord, but who in latter writings is generally portrayed as amongst the fallen. His apparently arbitary reclassification interested me. \ **Mangetout** , _drool_ The pavlova sounds excellent – using the yolks for custard is inspired… I can never figure out what to do with the things. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Mini-Thud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Mini-Thud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mini-Thud)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/44 "2003-11-10T00:02:23Z")
I’m also one of the people who it them whole. If I have a knife then I’ll cut off the ends to avoid the hard parts. But if I don’t no problem, will just munch right through em. Yeehaw 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/45 "2003-11-10T00:26:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Apollyon \* > \*\ ***Mangetout** , _drool_ The pavlova sounds excellent – using the yolks for custard is inspired… I can never figure out what to do with the things. Thanks. \*\* It went down a treat again; in the end, I made a last-minute trip out to get strwaberries, as the melon turned out to be a little insipid (despite appearing to be fully ripe and fragrant from the outside). To make the custard, you just add about double the volume of milk to egg yolks, a heaped tablespoon of white sugar and a bit of vanilla, then whisk constantly over heat until it thickens - you’re supposed to do this in a _bain Marie_, but if you’re attentive, you can just do it in a pan over a very gentle flame (have a chilled bowl ready to put the custard into, to stop it cooking) ---
**Author:** ![cajela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cajela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cajela)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/46 "2003-11-10T03:54:14Z")
Has anyone tried the yellow-fleshed kind? Yum, I really like them. A little sweeter and less acidic. But I don’t eat the skin. I also don’t eat peach skins. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/47 "2003-11-10T04:08:23Z")
The yellow ones have jaundice…put them back. ---
**Author:** ![cajela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cajela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cajela)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/48 "2003-11-10T04:37:46Z")
They’re marketing them here as “golden kiwifruit”. They really are nice, honest. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/49 "2003-11-10T04:51:07Z")
I know, I’m sorry i was being silly. Lots of kiwifruit R&D is being done here to make them different colours, hairless etc. The golden kiwifruit is a Kiwi invention. Just trying to reclaim the fruit we stole from the Chinese 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/50 "2003-11-10T05:53:19Z")
Kiwifruit skin?? Blech. (FYI from a Merican: Nobody calls 'em kiwifruit over here, they’re just kiwis. I think more of y’all need to visit and reclaim the name.) The best way to eat e’m is sliced and quartered (skin _off_ of course) and over a dish of vanilla ice cream. But then the way to eat pretty much any fruit is over a dish of vanilla ice cream. Not that I have any at the moment. Where are my car keys? ---
**Author:** ![belkathy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@belkathy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belkathy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/51 "2003-11-10T09:05:38Z")
Cut the skin and ends off with a knife then slice into chunks. Juicy, dribbly goodness! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/52 "2003-11-10T13:47:08Z")
I don’t eat them. My friend brought home kiwi from work one day. They were siamese kiwi that looked like monkey balls. No more kiwi for Kalhoun!! ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/53 "2003-11-12T09:05:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by coffeecat \* > \*\*Yes, but have you ever been to Australia? \*\* Yeah, been there too. 🆒 Lok ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/54 "2003-11-13T08:15:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\*I don’t eat them. My friend brought home kiwi from work one day. They were siamese kiwi that looked like monkey balls. No more kiwi for Kalhoun!! \*\* You’ve just won a SanguineSpider award for the funniest post in this here thread!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678/55 "2003-11-13T14:06:56Z")
Yeah…we couldn’t eat them. We just sat them on the table and laughed at them. Drinkin’ and laughin’ at the monkey balls. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-your-kiwi/211678.md?page=2)