Tasting Some of the Wildest Fruit at Bogot's Paloquemao Market Vox Borders

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Vox Borders is an international documentary series by Emmy-nominated producer Johnny Harris exploring life at the edge of nations. Caesar: Nice video. I remember the trees of zapote in our back yard, they are from the coconut family, looking like a small palm tree, you climb to get zapotes that grow under the leaves like coconuts do, they have a tough and hairy outer crust and are capricious to emerge, even under a year round temperature of 28 deg Cels it would not mean we had zapotes for that year. It tastes like a mix of orange-melon, mango, a ripe sweet potatoe, a hint of strawberry inside all that and. with the texture of a hairy-squash that is trapped between your teeth, once you have one opened, zapotes can bring 3 or 4 seeds enveloped by the meat of the fruit. After eating your fingers keep the flavor for a while. We try growing them in Miami but it did not work because they grow in a high warmed plateaus, zapotes closely resemble to the taste from the fruit of gods, persimons. They are exported all over the word from Colombia but their names are changed. In some US cities they are transformed into the ice creams sold in small Mom and Pops latin supermarkets and are named paletas from their unique freezer. If you want to find this tasty delicacy from the plastic wrapers of the paleta look for the shape of the zapote just the same as it appears in this video and if it is a hot summer day buy 4 or 5 because you don't want stop enjoying greatness!
Date: 2020-05-20

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Comments and reviews: 9

Walter
Some of the fruit featured is delicious but can only be eaten in small amounts, some like the mamoncillo known as quenepas in Puerto Rico have a juice that can leave permanent stains on your clothes. Tasty but don't go crazy otherwise you will spend lots on time on the toilet the next day. The great thing is that most of the fruits and vegetables are very affordable. I love Colombia- was there just last week. Great video.
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Caesar
Lulos are used in popular fermented drinks, they are perfect for this because they are so citrouscy and turn very sweet once they ripe. Green lulos, not yet ripen, are used in any kind of cold juice mixings. Your First bite gets a hold of your gonads in the back of your tongue squizing out all your mental thoughts while your eye balls are sucked in and out in a gush of pleasing flavors, really really sour
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Cellnumber
I drink Lulo juice everyday. Lol never thought that It was rare in other places. But there are fruits that you dont find In Bogota. You just find the fruits on little towns because theyre not very popular in the cities like Medellin or Bogota. So the buyers from the big markets dont invest on those fruits. But there are really fruits that are hidden gems in Colombia.
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You
We have Guabana in Ghana also. I've ate and seen every fruit known to man but somehow i've never encountered it in youtube videos or IRL until I watched this video today. I remember eating it as a kid and it really fills you up. It tastes really sweet and you just chew it lightly. I still don't know the English name of it tho.
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Humberto
Hey Johnny. I am Colombian living in Canada And I really appreciate you taking the time to check out my Country. Thank you for this video and the videos you made for Vox. I wish you could had spent more time in colombia to see more of my country. Once again thank you for all this great job. God bless
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Sara
I'm a Colombian living outside, I am so absurdly happy that Johnny is doing this! We have the 5 thermal floors so our variety of vegetables and fruit is amazing However, all I could think of watching Johnny eat this amount of different things is. His stomach is not going to be ok xD
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discotechwreck
I grew up with so many of these fruits and so many more excotic vegetables in Belize. Having moved to the UK I miss these diversity of flavours. Unfortunately, I think it will always be too difficult to market many of these to conservative Western palettes!
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Esperanza
Johnny, you are incredible. I love to see your videos, especially this one. In fact, the last month I was in Colombia with my norwegian husband, and then the first place that we were visiting it was Paloquemao, and we were there because of U. Thanks a lot!
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Ian
I'm from Ecuador (South of Columbia) and every time I visit my family, I literally buy 100s of granadillas (timestamp 2: 57) while I am there. Even though it is grey and slimy, it is literally the best tasting fruit on this planet
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