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"Istanbul not Constantinople" pawpaw/papaya. Alas.. as the article says not entirely: not all pawpaw are papaya.

Ripe Papaya improve with a squeeze of lime. Green papaya are fantastic grated in south-east Asian salads.

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Carica papaya and Asimina triloba are not particularly closely related.

In Australia, "pawpaw" is a name for the yellow papaya, a variety of Carica papaya.

If the person you replied to both 1) is Australian, and 2) did not read enough of the article to realize it was not talking about yellow papaya, then their confusion is legitimate.

Fruit naming is a disaster. Breadfruit have very little wheat in them and a pineapple is not a pine or an apple.

not just fruit; would you care for a sweetbread sandwich?

I'd love one. Sounds offal.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/134659/why-is-pi...

case in point

It's called a pineapple because it looks like a pinecone, and pineapple is an older term for a pinecone (the "apple" being a somewhat archaic generic term for fruits).

And don't get me started on North Americans and "yams" for sweet potates/kumaras.

Or "yuca" for edible cassava, which is nothing to do with inedible "yucca".

Yeah, in Australia they're sometimes used interchangeably. This article goes over the differences within and between papaya and pawpaw.

https://slowfastsoil.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/difference-bet...

Even more confusingly, the pawpaw referenced in that article is merely another variety of papaya, and neither are are related to the North American pawpaw described in this article.

Istanbul not Baghdad.

Istanbul aka Byzantium

Baghdad would be in an entirely different country.

whoosh that's the point. Pawpaw and papaya are different fruit, Istanbul and Constantinople were the same city

Mea culpa

That's a dad bag right there.

Papaw or pawpaw?

Paw paw, or paw-paw AFAICT.

Accent is on the first "paw." So that's a no on papaw which would suggest pronouncing it "puh-PAH," or perhaps even "PAP-paw" which would create a name clash with the backwoodsian term for "father"

Burl Ives and all the folk singers on Youtube agree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGJm10nJ6w

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