# Kiwi fuzz--Yes or No? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2000, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444 "2000-08-23T14:51:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/1 "2000-08-23T14:51:52Z")
Does anyone eat kiwi fruit peel? I don’t, which seems hypocritical, since I do eat peach fuzz/peel. ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/2 "2000-08-23T15:00:55Z")
Well, I don’t like peach fuzz and therefore opt for the fuzzless nectarine. Being that kiwi is even more coarse, I don’t eat it either. ---
**Author:** ![Darqangelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@Darqangelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darqangelle)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/3 "2000-08-23T15:04:59Z")
Fuzz on. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/4 "2000-08-23T19:25:03Z")
Yeah, I do. Mrs. ricepad thinks I’m nuts, but I’m just too lazy to peel 'em. I eat the whole thing…‘cept for the sphincter-lookin’ part. ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Sea\_Sloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sloth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/5 "2000-08-23T19:47:59Z")
Isn’t the skin of a kiwi more difficult to chew than the skin of a peach? I’m another nectarine lover. Forget that fuzz shit. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/6 "2000-08-24T13:54:01Z")
I just pick them up and eat them, fuzz and all. When the office got a fruit basket with kiwis in it and I ate one, people freaked out. Told me the skin is poisonous, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/7 "2000-08-24T20:30:05Z")
yeah. nobody taught me how to eat a kiwi, so when people found it strange that i ate the skin, i was surprised. it is good. ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/8 "2000-08-24T20:33:07Z")
for those who are not into eating the fuzz, the “proper (some old English bitch taught me this) way” to eat a kiwi is to slice it in half and then scoop out the flesh with a teaspoon or dessert spoon. nice and dainty, actually works really well. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/9 "2000-08-24T20:37:03Z")
I’m not to fond of the skin–it’s too tough to really chew. I’d actually eat more kiwi if it didn’t have so many damned seeds. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/10 "2000-08-24T20:37:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ivar \* > \*\*for those who are not into eating the fuzz, > the “proper (some old English bitch taught me this) way” to eat a kiwi is to slice it in half and then scoop out the flesh with a teaspoon or dessert spoon. > > nice and dainty, actually works really well. \*\* Yes, this is how I eat the little suckers. I also choose to eat nectarines rather than peaches. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/11 "2000-08-24T21:52:00Z")
You can always go for the hardy northern variety, that has no fuzz. You won’t find it in a store most likely. I hate fully ripe ones and only eat them not fully ripened. I won’t eat the fuzz either, that’s as bad as eating the whole sunflower seed. ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/12 "2000-08-24T22:19:37Z")
hmmmm… I don’t like the peachfuzz… or Kiwifuzz(more like FUR) one time on a rollercoaster I ingested a deerfly or something… and now whenever I eat kiwifuz or anything on accident it brings back that memory and the feeling… Fly’s, Fly’s FLY’S!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiwi-fuzz-yes-or-no/30444/13 "2000-08-25T12:19:19Z")
Mmm. Kiwi fruit. First, you have to cut them open. Then I gently spread the fuzzy outer layers, tounge out the sweet, yielding flesh, and slowly feast on the soft, wet interior. Don’t eat the skin though. It’s kinda tough and a bit to fuzzy. Peaches or necterines are both fine, though peaches occasionally get that very light mold on the surface that you can miss if you don’t look carefully. ## I think I’ll go out and buy some fruit . . . “I like my women like I like my kiwi fruit. Tart yet sweet, Soft, yet firm. And covered in short, brown, fuzzy hair.”