Eating Prickly Pear Cactus In Texas

[jennydagreat]

divemore that's how you peel it Good on you!

[RobertAlanMacDonald]

im growing some of them right now !

[SurviveToLife]

Nothing like prickly pear cactus! Cool video man!

[josephd27]

i tried to eat one of them before and got a ton of them hair needles in my fingers

[MrJmfitch]

hah! I just commented on LadyGardenHoe's VR to my contest that she should do a video on prep and eat of this. Didn't know she (AKAK scruffyjones) was your wife, and she already did a video. Stumbled right across this. Cool

[mbgt12]

I am in San Antonio, I sell cactus pads via mail. Spined and spineless types. I eat the pads (spineless type) when young. Don't eat the fruit all too much.  Contact me jeaners127 @ gmail.com if interested. Have various types.

[divemor]

50 years ago while visiting a Mexican desert location. The locals showed me the way to get the prickly pear fruit without getting stuck. Without picking the fruit you just take your knife and cut across the fruit top and down one side of it. Then you hold the cut away part clear and push you fingers into the fruit between the skin and the core. You then just remove the core without touching the skin or the spines. The skin stays behind on the bush.

[xbox360ownerdaperdan]

if eaten those they sorta taste like ill wine to me

[MrWatlow]

Ummm yeah, Eisenhower State Park is definitely north of San Antonio. It's like 352 miles north!! :) It is actually closer to Dallas and Fort Worth. Maybe yall were at Lyndon B. Johnson State Park which is about 85 miles north of San Antonio. Anyway, Excellent video!!! I have heard that those things could be eaten but I have never seen anyone do it. That's pretty cool!!

[Imaroughboy2]

Think I seen a Mexican wearing a backpack on hiding behind those bushes.

[kbroberts1]

@Imaroughboy2 live in Tucson AZ laughed my ass off at your comment illeagal ovecouse

[drew1095hc]

I live in south east texas...we juice these and make wine out of them....very good

[ryanjcus]

No this is Allegra my Fiance. We are both YouTube Geeks and Love each other very much!

[Fishermanfred1]

Hi good video! Do you still have the same girlfriend that went to the indoor range with you ? I think her name was Cassie?

[agun17]

TOP TIP: Roll them on hot coals. The prickles will burn like hairs.

Tip 2: pinch the top and open it like a banana.

Tip3: don't eat too many or the seeds will clog you up.

[colibri1]

I've eaten those, too. Used tongs to handle them and burned off the tiny hair-spines (called glochids), then peeled them. The taste can range from faint, diluted watermelon (emphasis on the water) to really rich, delicious watermelon, but better. What's crazy is an anthropologist once showed a class I was in coprolites from west Texas and they were filled with both glochids and the large, lethal-looking spines, so some Indians ate the entire fucking things, spines and all.

[DangerousDan762]

Pretty cool. This one never showed up in my subscriptions for some reason. Looks like beautiful country out there.

[ryanjcus]

@DangerousDan762 yeah man, its awesome out there. By the way I watched all of your arrest videos. Crazy stuff!

[KonstantinKuehn]

looks really good! does it really taste like watermelon?? ive always imagined it to taste like a kiwi... hmmmm

[TheScruffyJones]

@KonstantinKuehn Not same flavor but similar mildness. It is very unique experience.

[MrEhud77]

You can burn the spines off those as well, they're pretty good cooked too

[utterlystupidstuff]

hey my uncle has the knife she was using!

[1ArmChairSurvivalist]

Yummy! We don't get to enjoy cacti here in Georgia, I'll have to do some research on wild fruit in my area.

[OregonMilitia]

DAME BRO..WHILE YOU WAS THERE..YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN VIDEO NO THE FOREIGN TROOPS ..THERE IS LIKE 4 MILLION IN TEXAS ...GOOD VID

doc

[chickenetti]

I love prickly pear fruit from the wild! Totally worth the annoying pinpricks (though I found if you wash them in water, they come off pretty decently). Peel them with your fingers after the spines are gone, then cut them in half. The seeds are inedible, but the juice around them is so good I suck it off and spit them out, then enjoy the flesh of the fruit. In the city you can raid people's landscaping sometimes for the fruit (but only if you're sure they don't want it).

[melapapi]

Oh no guys, don't eat those pears... you know how many people urinated in a cactus here in Texas?

[superjet2771]

what a cool chick...

[rifleman11000]

A suggestion, after you scrape the thorns, cut the ends off, make a slit lenghtwise and peel, you will have the whole fruit. Enjoy.

[05MagnumSXT]

Great to see you out in the sticks again Ryan. Keep the videos dude. It hasn't been the same around here without you. Stay in touch.

I got your six.

[parfumatu2003]

more vids man

[343HFD]

Hope you enjoyed your trip :)

[toddac1]

if you have a lighter in your pack, you can burn them off with just the smae success. thanks for sharing

[TheScruffyJones]

@toddac1 Wow, I didn't even think of that. Great tip!

[EDINBURGSTAR]

Very nice they are one of the many blessings here in Texas, along with the mesquite, and the grangeno. Thanks for posting.

[DrDissent]

Man... you sure had that camera trained on your girls boobs an awful lot in this video. Cant say I blame you, but that cracked me up.

[TheScruffyJones]

@DrDissent That was my bad, oops. I should have dressed more modestly. Properly fitting clothes becomes a challenge when all you wear are clothes that are given to you. Cool thing is I've spent approx. $0.00 on clothes in the past year! Lol.

[DrDissent]

@TheScruffyJones I still blame the cameraman!

[paddyboy12432]

good to see you buddy!

[tinsnanna]

good to see u :) ty 4 the post

[PeSi2007]

we had these cactus growing in the yard :-)

greetings from spain

[mtefft]

Just so you know. From Texas State Park rules & regulations. (l) Natural and Cultural Resources.

Plant life. It is an offense for any person to willfully mutilate, injure, destroy, pick, cut, remove, or introduce any plant life except by permit issued by the director.

Big brother is watching!

[hinckleypoland]

just avoid the Jumping Cholla!

[Suazovic]

hence the name Prickly pear!

[BEGOODTOYOURDOG1]

That is a nice girl you have there. Good video. Thank you.

[syco4420]

Hey long time no see my friend. Thats awesome you came down to Texas. Where all did yall go in Texas? again awesome video as always Ryan. Keep them coming A++++++

[TheScruffyJones]

First time I tried this was when I was 12 years old on a road-trip with my dad. Being from the Pacific NW this stuff is still very exciting to me even though I've live in Texas for awhile. The seeds are very hard! I spit them out, Lol. Duct tape would've been perfect at that time bc those stingers are relentless. @Ryan Thanks for posting...I miss u bad!

[sabbathfan65]

Was the dude high?

[jasonbruneck]

@sabbathfan65 mescalin i guess

[KASPLARFO]

Wild stuff man! ✭✭✭✭✭

Get your asses out here already!

[ak74srthebest0909]

A new video!!!! Outdoor girl!! You better hang on to her!!!!

[markstevenbuisness]

i was gonna try some of this untill i cut it open lol!

[NMFarrier]

The leaf of the Prickly Pair cactus is good also... and as far as the little needles... use a handkerchief or some loose material to wipe them off the fruit... the barries on the alligator juniper are full of sugars. For a quick energy boost... coyote and black bear eat allot of that for a main food source.

[vention4wh]

"Don't pick the prickely pair by the paw, when you pick a pear you gotta use the claw"

♫Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, forget about your worries and your stife. . . ♫

Now I'm going to be humming that all day.

watch?v=TcglnY_xGfc

[YouMockMe]

Whats going on with the seeds? Is it similar to the pomegranate situation, you can eat them but not worth it?

[otakop67]

@YouMockMe You can eat them, but don't chew them (some are hard as stones and will break your teeth).

[YouMockMe]

@otakop67 wow...thanks for the heads up.

[beast12101]

desert watermelon, nice work

[deanphilpot]

Makes better jelly

[dinnerandashow]

We noticed that you filmed down her shirt.

[LUVRoffreedom76]

A girl down with survival she's a keeper haha. Hope that works out for you, but it's good to see you doing videos still.

[tommmmmmmmx]

i use duck tape to pull them out

[YouMockMe]

@tommmmmmmmx - Does that actually work or is this theory?

[tommmmmmmmx]

@YouMockMe yes it does i lived in ansa borego for 10 yrs. it works great

[YouMockMe]

@tommmmmmmmx cool. thanks for the tip.

[360steven]

good video ryan good to see your still making videos keep up the good work

[WeCanAllGetAllong]

It's food in the heat of the day! :)

[Fenianboyo]

Good vid man...welcome to Texas!

[jeepnicc]

Awesome! Cool to see you back on the tube bro!!

[IronicallyVague]

I've seen the jelly they sell made from the cactus but have never tried it to date...

I've heard you can't try & drink water from a barrol cactus, wonder if that's true?..would be a great way to find emergncy water if it wasn't.

[ElCoyotefromTexas]

I know them as tunas(thats what they are called in spanish). They are really sweet and taste but the down side are the seeds.

Some people rap them in newspaper to take the seeds off. Good luck and keep it up guys!