Granadillo

PZ Myers has breakfast in Quito, Ecuador.

Recorded on August 10, 2008 using a Flip Video camcorder.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• pzmyers
• granadillo
• breakfast
• ecuador
• quito

[elC0mmen]

@roidroid Ok, to clarify, I'm mexican, so you don't need to translate ;-) And in Mexico City at least, the ones from the video are called granadas. And i think the red ones (the inside) are the granadas chinas you are mentioning. And i had never heard of grenadia. But again, even in Mexico the naming of food can vary beween states. The most common bread is "bolillo", but ask for a bolillo in Michoacán and they say they don have it even when you are looking at it through the show window...

[roidroid]

@elC0mmen "Granada" is literally the spanish word for pomegranette, which although it looks similar to a passionfruit (and thus the relative naming) it's an entirely different fruit.

passionfruit can be called sweet "Granadilla" which means sweet "little pomegranette", or "Granada China" which means chinese pomegranette. They are also called "Grenadia" (note this is similar but different to the word "granada", it could be easy to mix them up).

What do you call pomegranettes?

[elC0mmen]

@roidroid I guess nomenclature varies. Again, _in Mexico_ they're called granadas

[roidroid]

@elC0mmen i think the "granadas" you are thinking of are pomegranates.

the fruit in this video is a granadilla, which is indeed a type of passionfruit.

[elC0mmen]

That's no passion fruit. In Mexico they're called 'granadas'.

[mattfox06]

That's a passion fruit. They're quite tasty but sometimes very acidic.

[hamsterpoop]

Oh my mom used to put one of those in my lunch box every day when I was in elementary school :)

They are goooooood!!!

[ZorkFox]

Ah ha! I should have performed MORE research! :)

[CousinoMacul]

Ah, thanks. I'd never heard of 'granadillo' so I looked it up. Turns out PZ got it almost right. It's 'granadilla' and yes, it is a passion fruit.  :-)

[ZorkFox]

It's granadillo, as the video title suggests. :)