mamey

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To complicate the game imagine that the food I crave is illegal -- raw milk perhaps, or the exquisite Cuban fruit mamey, which cannot be imported fresh into the U.S. because its seed is hallucinogenic (or so I'm told).

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  1. noun A West Indian tree (Mammea americana) having glossy leaves, white fragrant flowers, and large edible drupes.
  2. noun The fruit of this tree, having firm juicy flesh and toxic seeds. Also called mammee apple.

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  • Soft drinks include canned Goya tropical-fruit juices ($1.25), fresh-squeezed juices and lemonade ($2. 50-$3), and excellent smoothie-like batidos ($2.50) of interesting tropical fruits like zapote, a / k / a mamey. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • To complicate the game imagine that the food I crave is illegal -- raw milk perhaps, or the exquisite Cuban fruit mamey, which cannot be imported fresh into the U.S. because its seed is hallucinogenic (or so I'm told). —  home
  • A: Arrachera steak, michelada cervezas, mangos chilados, hot chocolate, pan de elote, crab taquitos, pescado de tlacotlapeno (or something like that). fresh tropical fruit out the wazoo, tacos al pastor (OMG - TACOS AL PASTOR), cochinita pibil, cecina, salchichas, chiles en nogada, tepache, agua de jamaica, paletas de mamey … and exercising more than I ever have to enjoy all these culinary luxuries. —  WordPress.com News
  • You may throw in a little pine-apple, mamey, lime, and cocoa-plum; but the guava is the thing, and, in case of a long run on the tea-table, will give the most effectual support. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
  • If one has alcoholic leanings, the wine of a cocoanut, an ounce of rum, two lumps of sugar, a dash of grenadine, and the mixture were paradise enow The papayas, which the British call mammee-apple or even mummy-apple or papaw, because of the West Indian name, mamey, are much like pumpkins in appearance. —  Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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