food shops and deli's do them. They do look shrivelled but are in fact
pickled with those Jap red colouring leaves (whatever they're called).
Sucking the stones is also *the* best hangover cure... next to Nux, or
erm... whatever the indicated remedy is, of course
That climate is similarish to the UK (bit colder in winter and warmer
in summer?), maybe they grow here? Never heard of them doing that though.
--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Rochelle Marsden" wrote:
full of juice. They are very sour and help with digestion. The
Chinese ones may serve the same purpose, but they taste very
different. Today it is hard to get them without all kinds of
additives including sugar. They are really Japanese apricots and if
you live in a cold damp climate like the coast of the Pacific
northwest of the coast just below the Great Lakes, you can grow the
tree. Ellen
