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It’s that time of year! I grew up in the desert southwest so we got these. I got my wife hooked on them. Luckily I can find them now at my ethnic grocery stores. Short season.
 

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Here; there are no food parallels I can use to describe the flavor. lightly sweet. imagine a sweet cucumber? it is full of seeds you can't chew, but you just swallow them and file them under the umbrella of "fiber".

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Only used them once, and that description of a "sweet cucumber" is about as close as I could come to it. And due to those seeds, I ended up making a delicious "smoothie" with them - they disappear in the Vitamix, like with many seeded foods!
 
I have had them and I like them. But, they are quite expensive here in Quebec, so I don't usually buy them. They are not so wonderful that I miss them.
 
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