A new fruit that looks like a fat and knobby cucumber, tastes like a cross between a pineapple and a banana, and has a black “be,aid,” is the late-t novelty for Knyiish epicures It is the Mon-ioria and comes from Madeira. One of th.o many remarkable feature- of the new fruit is that v,hen it is ready for eating the outer skin burst.?, and the fruit practically falls to p lec-36.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20283, 16 December 1927, Page 20
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