Voatango Melon - Weird Fruit Explorer 373
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- We found a melon in Madagascar and we both hated it. Also a bonus fruit review surprise!
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3:58 Hahaha omg that's the funniest noise I've heard in ages! It sounds like a weird cat, or a little gnome dude or something... That was hilarious 😂
YES!
Lol, wtf was that? It sounded it came out of a cartoon character of a classic Looney Toons.
that's the sound of every taste bud on my tongue gagging at the same time.
@@WeirdExplorer too bad surstromming isn't a fruit. Heh do it anyway.
Ohh snap, I can't stop watching this. Actually tearing from laughing xD
OMG the simultaneous look on your faces after that first bite! :D
He and I didn't always see eye to eye on fruit flavor, but in this case we had 100% the same reaction haha
From what I've read that melon loves to drink up as much water as it can and it dilutes the sweetness. It tastes best when it's grown in a drier area. I loved the look of regret after the first bite 🤢 🤣🤣
interesting! It would be interesting to try it grown in that way
@@WeirdExplorer I could get some seeds and grow some in my garden. Would I be able to ship them from Canada to you?
The real surprising thing was how popular these melons were with our guide and the local people. We gave the rest to him and he relished it. Personally not a fan of this melon.
must have been an acquired taste
Maybe it is similar to this melon? They say that it sucks up so much water that it won't ripen until it's been cut off for a few days. www.rareseeds.com/melon-de-luneville/reviews/
I've noticed that impoverished places seem to really like starchy foods, even when they seem insipid or even bitter to western palates.
I think it's similar with 'Blewah' in Indonesia. Often sold in Ramadhan months. We made beverage with it and adding water, sugar/syrup, and ice . The fruits isn't very sweet but very fragant.
'Blehwah' is such a great name for that. It's both 'bleh' and makes you want to cry lmao
@@progressivepagan5575 lol good one! 😂
More like a "Timun suri." "Blewah" is like a pumpkin but actually its a canteloupe
@@rizalassyfiya2133 after much research, Timun Suri might be the same PUNTY that i have been looking all over the internet for years to find. when i was growing up in my country, Jamaica, my grandparents use to grow this fruit that we only used to make juice with. back then we only know it as Punty, and i don't know who came up with the name. for 7 years now, i have been searching the internet trying to find a proper name for this thing and came up with nothing. finally, Timun Sury! thank you.
It is called "timun suri" in Indonesia. We eat it with coco pandan syrup.
I think we have a similar kind of melon in our parts. But it is mostly a seasonal thing and the skin peels off exactly like that in the video. With that boiled potato kind of taste. However, these fruits here do not have a bitter snot like you described.
And the taste is also bland. We however eat them as breakfast food like in once a year. We normally sprinkle them with loads of sugar or jaggery before eating though. They are also made into jams in our area.
This reminds me of a time when I spent way too much money (like $4) on a melon at a farmer's market, and it ended up being flavorless and mealy like the on in this vid. I feel your pain lol.
for this one, you need take the flesh out, mashed it up with sugar and keep cool for half hour. It will be a blast when you have it in the summer. We have a kind of it in Vietnam but with Green color and bigger
Cantilope with no flavour and the texture of a boiled potato...what a weird fruit
some of my favorite episodes are the ones with you and Steven Murray in faraway countries....two people with passion and huge knowledge about fruits.... so much fun! Thank you!
I like how you wear the Weird Explorer T-shirt, like an ambassador of your channel ;)
In Thailand also have this type of melon too for 100 year or more,
traditional eat with coconut milk syrup.
It taste good with syrup (enhance flavors of syrup) but not very much on it own.
In my child hood it look exactly like this but when I grow up breeder and framers choose to grow more denser flesh variety for longer shelf life.
Old variety skin tend to crack when ripened.
You have to try Sugar Kiss melons. They're primarily grown in Arizona commercially, and can be purchased in a lot of places in the US. They're also very popular in Taiwan, where they were bred, as well as Singapore, and I believe they are in Japan as well. These melons are OFF THE CHART sweet, super juicy, and melts in your mouth.
The best in that cut in small cube and put condence milk and milk add ice add sugar
OoooOoOooo
Wow, I would not have thought the meon snot would have had such a drastically different flavor than the melon flesh. You're a brave explorer, melons is one of the two fruits I will not mess with, the other being tomato.
Have you had pepino melon? Its a "melon" in the tomato family. that sounds like your kryptonite.
I know this melon, i ate it when i was a child. This one you picked seemed over ripe. Normally it smells good, the taste is mild... in fact, malagasy people love to eat it with sugar and lemon...very tasty!!!
It's not to be eaten by itself. You take the solid "flesh" inside, cut it into small pieces, add lime juice and sugar, let it rest for a few hours till a sweet juice forms. I'm eating some rn
3:58 that was a noise
I watched a lot of I love lucy as a child.
Gyueuwwww
steven is great at explaining things, almost as good as you!
6:43 HOLY CRAP that man just disappeared!
Oh, that, he got snapped.
What a joyous reaction at 2:30. From let's do this, to I immediately regret my decision in seconds
1:28 Miriam Makeba singing Pata Pata in the background.
Also, that melon reminds me of a Korean melon. I love those. You can eat the whole thing.
When you look up taste descriptions of this melon most of them say "tasteless".
The look on your guys face after the first first bite was so halarious.
Looks good I grow some simalar to cantaloupe & melon dew but isn't as sweet but it taste more custardy & be great as a ice cream & do grow a flavorless giant cucumber it's 1 foot long sometimes smaller or bigger
Gosh with that flavor description I don’t know how anyone can resist buying a ticket to Madagascar just to try one of those melons as soon as they can!
haha, there certainly are fruits that would warrant the trip. this one though... bleh
Thank a lot man.Your share many good information to me.Keep doing video.
We have that in morocco, before melon was introduced here the was the commune melon. it grows here naturally but it's quite rare to find the taste is awful but people still eat it just like that. i tried it ones never again
Hahaha great review. Boiled potatoes and bitter snot
Love your reactions! 😂
Fantastic, informative content as always! keep up the great work and stay healthy!
thanks!
It is so tasty....❤❤❤ Specially juice with sugar.....
Next time I'll have to try it that way. Our local guide really liked this one too but steven and I had the same melon and didnt like it :/
Best way to eat it: take off the jelly part, peel and cut. Sprinkle with sugar and let it rest for 30 min in the fridge.
looks like a lemon cucumber mixed with a cantaloupe lol
Voatango is very nice, but you have to add a lot of sugar first. Nobody eats it just like that :)
definitely thought it looked like pepino melon the moment you held it up, mostly from the markings but flavor "acrid" sounds wretched. pepino melons are delicious and sweet when ripe with a texture like a nectarine.
I had no idea pepino melons could be so delicious until I started growing them myself! The ones at the store are so tasteless and awful but when left to ripen correctly until just about soft they’re so sweet and almost caramely!
yeah pepinos have a bad rap because of supermarkets. ripe ones are so different
I'm kinda interested, if it reaches maturity rather quickly like a cucumber or cantaloupe, i saw 70days when i googled it, and is an easy to grow crop like cucumber but has more starch it could be useful
Might be some medicinal compounds in there you never know
I was thinking that too.
Looks like you ate an overripe whatever that is. Cool :>
What do Jared feeling sad about not eating good fruit and giving a cantaloupe to a sheepdog have in common? The first is melancholy, the second one is a melon collie.
ha!
Anyone else know that voatango is the Malagasy word for melon. So this video is called Melon Melon. Kind of like Sahara is Arabic for greatest desert, so people calling it the Sahara desert is really calling it the Greatest desert desert. Love when languages collide.
Haha when I saw an exotic melon I thought I might try and beg some seed, but after seeing those reactions, maybe not. ;-)
yeeh.. not the tastiest one to grow. But certainly a rare one.
I wonder if fresh papaya peels that easily if it's well grown
Penor Family
Yum !!!
Madagascar cantaloupe = Mantaloupe
That look after the first bite 😂😂
3:58 ^_^
like for the profile pic
Wondering if it may be time for a 'Best in Class" week. Best citrus - best banana - best melon (HA!) - best etc. etc.
I'm thinking of doing a top ten mango video some time and seeing how that goes.
The melon was close to being rotten, that's why the texture
We had one again later that was fresher. It was better.. but was still pretty pasty.
I remember finding and eating tiny native melon's in Australia. So small that they made me chuckle. That is the low moisture environment for you.
The insides look like a citrus sort of
Wow the thumbnail looks like chili in a bread bowl or something. Crazy!
nope.. just a big ol bowl of melon snot :/
Any idea where you could get seeds
salad...lol I want to see a Madagascan eat a salad.
Ah the melons are always the worst it seems, still awesome you could find something new
2:28
Y'all are describing the texture and flavor of the pepino melon.
Its similar for sure
Clearly a snozzcumber
Melon snot is great in GRAINGER COUNTY CANTALOUPES, but damn if I’m NOT seeing fruit stands set up along the roads this year!
I may have to take a drive into a holler in Grainger County to find a cantaloupe for you, Jared!
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no one in Madagascar taste melon like you guys. in usually we eat it in fruit salad or with a little portion of sugar. in europa they like melon with sausage and it’s just disgusting for me and almost people from africa but its just culture chock. You like your melon and we adore ours.
Blewah
You are cool!
What cool intro music.
Glad you like the new music!
Maybe it's very pest resistant or something.
If I showed this to my cousin he will NEVER stop trying to eat fruit . Edit: my cousin used to have a fruit and vegetable phobia so of I showed it he eats fruits now but he would eat a lot fruit
Stone mango? When i google search this it gave me regular mango articles instead
Some melons look sweet as hell but is bland as hell whennyou taste it Dx
And its insides are bitter
Gotta be honest, i clicked because the thumbnail looked like beans
Seems more like a gourd than a melon.
this might be PUNTY, or so we called it in my side of Jamaica. the rind looks a little different, but most everything else supports the claim. blend it up with condensed milk, vanilla and nutmeg will give a very rich, flavorful drink. eaten by itself is just bland. it has a strong sweet musk but taste like nothing.
It might have been nicer in the green state... 🤔
lol ewww i love melons and y'all realllllly didn't sell it haha. i think that won't be one i want to put on my list. 😂
They don't even know what it is
Peel and eat melon. Weird.
It's a snap melon, and that's not the way to eat it
Why don't you use the old outro song anymore? :(
Maybe it's a vegetable, not a fruit?
Its eaten as a fruit. I think some people put sugar on it though.
Melons are my absolute favorite food. But, I have zero interest in trying THAT particular melon.
locals there really like it, I guess its an acquired taste
It seems like I know what you are discribing.
lol first 5 minutes - two guys talking about a melon that tastes like boiled wet potato. - You're welcome potential viewers.
I like cantaloupe and boiled potatoes
You dont like it? Huh.
Probably needs some salt and pepper to taste. Don't think of it as a fruit.
Those are to enhance flavor, this type of melon is known for being virtually tasteless.
You just answered that question RDizzy!,.. A pinch of salt to add some flavor is how I would eat it!..
@@hibaby9379 I mean salt doesn't add flavor, it enhances flavor, and this has no flavor to enhance. Might as well just eat the salt alone.
I understand that Dizzy, I'm just telling you I'll be using salt or some kind of seasoning if I was going to eat it.. Seeing as how Jared didn't like the flavor or texture and doesn't recommend trying it, there's nothing more to say about it..
people do eat it with sugar I hear
I would love to see you use more clickbait thumbnails tbh you're doing great though. Your content is awesome and it deserves so many more views
I would rather have no views than to resort to click bait. I'm going for thumbnails that attract attention without deception. So far they seem to be working pretty well.
@@WeirdExplorer Love that!!
3rd
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@@WeirdExplorer I feel honororoerded
You two, the faces you made were beautiful, bitter snot, indeed.