When you hesitated then held the grapes in front of your face when you ate one I cackled so hard. I love your sense of humour. Great videos btw just in general.
muscadines are my favorite. As a child my uncle grew them and had this huge vine that wrapped over around around his front doorway. The taste iis amazing so for ME that was the taste of a grape growing up. Of course all the other grapes I had as an adult did not taste like that and I basically forgot about it until just a few years ago while visiting a relative who took us to a farmers market. Once there I saw these enormous purple grapes, bought a small bag, tasted the first one and was instantly and unexpectedly transported back to my childhood! I would love to find my own vine so that I could always have muscadines.
We have Moon Drops in my local Meijer store. They were on sale when I first got them, $1.99 a lb. I found them to be super sweet, I loved them, oh and I think they lasted longer than a typical green grape.
Longevity is one thing I dislike about grocery stores. You have NO idea how long an items has been sitting there getting more ripe, etc...so by the time you take it home it could last only a few days, a week or even longer.
I love your channel. I always wanted to travel, love trying new things, but this hasn't really been an option for me, so I get to vicariously have these experiences through your descriptions.
You should try Mustang grapes! Just kidding, don't. My dad tricked me with some of those. They're so acidic they can cause chemical burns and you have to use gloves. My mouth hurt for days.
I wonder if the Mustang, scuppenhime and your Muscadene are all in the same family. All three are used for making wine and jellies. All have a thick rind, high acidity, high pectin levels and low sugar content.
Boop Loop are those like the wild grapes we have in the south that are like really small and seedy muscadines? I’ve eaten those before but never had the reaction you describe. Sounds painful.
I'm from Tennessee and you can grow muscadines here. I see people growing them on fences. I absolutely love them. I eat the whole thing avoiding the seeds. I'll eat an entire carton in one sitting. Im so excited they're in season now!
We had green muskadine grapes growing at our lake-house property in Louisiana, and I loved them. I'd take a break while mowing the property or exploring & eat them exactly as you did, biting a hole then squeezing the meat out and spitting the seeds. You could also invert the skins and scrape the flesh from the inside and it was more tart than the flesh. Overall the green muskadine is more tart but not sour and I love them.
When I lived in Taiwan I ate a bunch of those Muscadine grapes & they are FREAKING DELICIOUS! Remember everyone's taste buds are different. To me, they were well worth the little extra work.
You really are a weird fruit explorer! It’s amazing that you literally have 189 videos each with a different type of food that is strange and unique. Well done! Can you look into finding a plethora of strange apples? There are so many different types of apples that you can discover out there it would be great to see 5 strange types of apples, or maybe do an “apple week” where you do a different apple each day for a week, and then at the end of the week you decide which of the 5 apples is the best tasting.
Thank you for the info on grapes. I’m hooked on grapes and after your video I’ll be in grape heaven with more flavors. Keep up the videos info on fruits around our world. ✌🏼😌
Them and Scupanong not spelled correctly are about the only grapes I'll eat. I either harvest them wild yes they grow everywhere in north Florida or from people's small arbors,family and friends.
This is probably one of my favorite videos of Jared eating grapes. I live in NY too, and I had no clue Eataly had these. Maybe I'll climb that building again after the pandemic.
🤣🤣I love your reviews! I grew up eating muscadines and scuppernongs. They grew wild in our county. There are some really lovely varieties of both that are good for fresh eating but the rest are recommended for jelly and wine. They are full of vitamins and antioxidants. Thanks for sharing! 😊💜
Muscadines are delicious, we get them really ripe here in Florida and they taste really sweet and they have a super tropical flavor. I dont know why but the rind tastes kind of peppery sour taste, and Jaboticaba tastes like a mix between grape and rambutan with a totally bitter skin. Its so cool how much fruit diversity there is!
Love muscadines! They are very common in the Deep South in August and September. In fact, you can sometimes find them growing in the wild. Those are smaller, but taste the same. There is a green/gold variety called Scuppernongs, which taste slightly more musky. Both make great jellies. I love them best out of hand though.
My local supermarket just got these grapes in and I had to try them. I also bought red grapes and green grapes. The flavor of those new elongated grapes was so much better and sweeter, than the other grapes. I'm definitely going to keep buying them!
If you haven't tried these already, there's a miniature sized grape that's extremely sweet (3 times as sweet as a raspberry) they're called Cabernet grapes and you can find them frozen at Publix. The seeds are about the size of a poppy seed, but a little bit smaller, and I like eating them with raspberries because the tartness goes well with the grapes.
Muscadine grapes grow wild everywhere down here in the south. You'll see the vines all on the side of the road and going up trees. I love them. The green ones are especially tasty
We called the muscadines "bullet grapes" where I grew up in Florida! The skin is tart and kind of bitter. It also causes your mouth to itch! When they are ripe, you can just apply a bit of pressure to the skin of the grape and it should pop open! My favorite part is that tiny drop of juice and ssuuppeerr sweet jelly like flesh right on the inside of the skin. The green ones still get really sweet but are more tart! They are so good. I hope you try them again!
FYI, muscadines are native to Dixie (not Italy, Taiwan, or anywhere else in Eurasia, though the climate might be suitable for them in Taiwan) They have been used for wine, but are grown mainly because Pierce's disease and other local pathogens kill off non-native species, and are mostly eaten fresh by homeowners, not sold, even the Southeast. They get huge, but are in tiny clusters and picked individually (raising labor costs even if market bias and industrial ag/grocery monotony could be broken). Bronze ones are often called "scuppernongs" after an ancient cultivar of that color. The ripest of those (reddish) taste very sugary, and a little bit like bubblegum. Cultivars probably vary though. Jam (remove seeds & the peel) comes out a little bit like apple jelly--reasonable to process a glut, but uninteresting and probably inferior to mayhaws (crabapple-like native hawthorns, another fruit that apparently doesn't exist to the idiots at Ocean Spray that apparently think Massachusetts=USA so that the "only" native fruit are cranberries, blueberries, and fox/Concord grapes--learn to at least read, Yanks!). Muscadine leaves are too small for dolmas. The vines themselves are rapidly growing monsters (take spacing recommendations seriously and don't treat like Vitis vinifera in the PNW for example), the "flying buttresses of the [live] oak forests" [Bartram].
Dixie is just another name for the SE USA (a poetic nickname, as "Albion" is for England, and "Cathay" or "the Middle Kingdom" is for China), which, yes, does include Florida (particularly north of Ocala, Florida even retains "Southern" culture). Muscadines tend to be grown in North & Central Florida because the extreme south (which ironically was so flooded by Yankees that it mostly lost its Southern cultural heritage) tends to attract experimentation with more tropical types of fruit (& since the grapes are deciduous, I suppose lack of sufficient chilling hours might be a problem at some point [many plants only "wake up" in spring after X hours below 45°F, so with peaches, plums, pears, etc, it becomes vital to choose a cultivar whose chilling requirement matches your local climate], as with most deciduous fruit). Welcome to Dixie!
Erik Johnson I hope you take this the best way, because it's meant as a compliment, but in my head you have one of those Coastal Georgian Aristocrat from the 19th century accents...
I had a really grape time watching that video! I remember a few years ago, I got from my normal, local grocery store some huge grapes. They were green and seedless but they were HUGE. They were round and so big that I had to eat each in 2 or more bites (and not small bites either). They tasted pretty good, I thought they would be bland but they weren't. Unfortunately, I have not seen them since, but I will never forget them.
FruityDude That stuff is gnawed-on by children as a snack in my native Thailand. They're terrible for your teeth, though! Both abrasive to the enamel AND loaded with the glucose that cavity-causing bacteria love.
I watched this video not too long ago. Today going through the grocery store I say Moondrop grapes from the same company, Grapery. You got ripped off man! I paid $4 ($1.99/lbs). That's here on the west coast too. I had to pick them up just to try them.
I bought a bag of the black fingers from [of all places] Food Lion here in Charlottesville Virginia. $1.99 Lb. The skins were mare 'tannic' than most grapes I've tried. Also, Fred Sanford [Sanford & Son] loved his Muscatelle ripple!
I think the question should be if these were the same price as normal grapes which would you choose? Which order?.. some more often than others? Thanks for the video. I always enjoy them 👍
I kind of wished you had sliced the grapes open so we could have seen the inside of each variety of the fruit, not just try to explain to us the flavor of them..
The last syllable is dine with a long I ( dine as in dining) . My father in law grew them for grape juice and to make jelly. My mother in law made pies with the skins.
The Muscadine grape is native to the southeastern USA and grows wild and is cultivated. It is frequently made into wine. The last syllable of muscadine and the word wine rhyme with each other. Some of the varieties of muscadine a are also called scuppernong or bullis grapes and they are delicious.
Southern muscadine grapes are typically eaten late in the summer into fall, it's the best "grape" EVER. They have the true grape flavor, the best wine is made from them, and they are very sweet, no sour or bitter to them if you pick them in the right season. They should be ripe enough that you simply have to squeeze the grape and the inside comes out into your mouth.
Oh yeah? I haven't had that one. Sometimes I'll go in and buy a chunk of the tomato and cheese focaccia and a coffee for lunch, surprisingly reasonable considering
@@WeirdExplorer Yea thats the weird thing about Eataly, the food is super expensive but the cooked/restaurant food is surprisingly well priced, I used to love the vegetable place Le Verdure before it closed... Anyway, I literally just went to my corner store and bough $38 of fruit and made fruit salad. Thank you sir, inspired.
I've actually eaten witch's fingers! They was more sour than I've expected, but good... Crispyness was very pleasant. And also Cotton Candy one! Also good, sweeter than witch fingers... But I remember them to be quite tangy. And both for quite normal grape price in my country, both bought at Market Square in Cracow. One of the best things about Market Square in Cracow is variety of products. It's seasonal and quite random, but if you live nearby, you can sometimes buy very interesting things from around the world. Said grapes, bananas with seeds, quite cheap mangoes (trashy variety but still...), English and German sweets, teas, cofees and cocoa, whole bunch of middle-eastern products, obviously Polish products, including interesting kinds of cheese and meat of quite camerally raised animals (I've tried chicken and pork, the difference in taste is suprising, and also it's pleasant to think that an animal you eat lived in better place and conditions than most of them) , vegan products, weird man's sugarless tinctures about which the legends are that he find the ingredients for them in trash, and much more.
I have both a muscadine grape vine and Jaboticaba tree. The muscadine is about 19 years old and the Jaboticaba is 3 according to who I bought it from. I haven't yet got any fruit on the Jaboticaba.
Wow really great episode you hit on so many favorites. I love Eataly here in Las Vegas and now you gave me an excuse to go further explore the place for fruit. I don't think they have any there but any excuse you know. The witches fingers are so delicious I love the texture and they are wonderful to eat several at a time and it's very decadent. The bag I got was only five bucks and I still thought it was a lot but they tasted a little more purple than average red grapes to me. That last grape the Muscat 1 seems a lot like how I like to eat concord grapes how this sweet inside pops out full of chunky seeds and then the extra tasty skin part.
Muscadines are Native here in Mississippi. The one you are should be very sweet...if not I am guessing they might be shipped green and gassed to appear ripe. Muscadine grapes are used for muscatel wine, which is a very sweet red. The green variation is the scuppernong. We pop them in our mouth and pressing the fruit between the tong and the roof of the mouth, the sweet pulp will pop out. We usually spit out the husk and seeds.
I been on a farm for a couple years now and between the 150+ lbs of muscadines I harvest every summer and the apringwater I've basically been persephone'd. I bring my own food and water now when I visit my family in the city.
That looks like a Black Beauty or Supreme muscadine variety. The skin of those are much more palatable than some other varietys. They were developed for fresh eating.
the reason why you don't eat the outside of the round grape is because there are usually a lot of pesticides coating it and since the skin is so thick it's impossible to get all of it out through washing...
I had some of those not too long ago. Every once in a while our local Kroger will get in something unique. They were on sale for 2.49 a pound so not that bad. You’re right though - funny shape but same grape taste. 👍
My mother has some Croatian blue grapes growing in Norway. They are the most tasty grapes I have ever had and I love them despite the seeds. So good to make wine or liqueurs of. They have survived -20 celsius winters.
In China we have a rose flavored grape cultivar which I like a lot. Once by accident I found in UK their Sable grape also has rose flavor. Its quite weird that when I was searching for rose grape, there was not too much information about it.
When I was a child in North Central North Carolina we had grape vines that grew on the property line between our land and the neighbors land. The vines were large and well established, they meandered back and forth, slightly zigzagging across the property line. The vines produced, wonderful, large, round, thick skinned grapes. The grapes were a lovely bronze color with areas of dark speckling, some were blushed with a greenish tint and others in autum hues of gold and reds. The grapes had a strong but wonderful flavor with floral aromas and a not unplesant but decidedly musky finish. I've done research as an adult and believe the grapes the locals called Fox Grapes were actually a type of scuppernong grapes. The skin of the grapes was bitter and musky so we usually didn't consume it. The neighbor children and my sister and I used to argue over ownership of the grapes. We'd debate for ages about which property owned the grapes. Did all of the grapes on a certain vine belong to the child whose parents owned the property from which that vine sprang or did the grapes belong to whoever's property they hung over? The older girl neighbor always changed her argument to whichever side of the argument resulted in posession of the largest number of ripe grapes for her family and her younger sister would provide fierce backup. The older girl grew up to work on Capital Hill and her younger sister became a prominent attorney in D.C.. I like to think our fierce debates over ownership of the fox grapes fueled their interest in politics and law. I probably should have become an attorney because I usially managed to secure the majority of the grapes for my sistet and I with "facts" I created. Lol It's been a half of a century and I still remember those wonderful grapes.
Heh. When the market near my apartment had Moondrop grapes, they were at most half that price. Also, when you do get the chance, haskap/honey berry is delicious.
Muscadines grow wild here in east Texas on the edges of the woods. I thought they were called 'muskydimes' when I was a kid, because of how they are generally pronounced. I put the 'm' on the end myself though.... The skins will make your lips and face itch when you eat the inside through the skins. They do have some seeds. They weren't my favorite. They might have been good peeled and juiced, but we just ate them then and there. People make jelly/preserves with them, but I never had any from that particular fruit.
I'm trying to grow all the fruits I try and like from seed...indoor gardening. I have a fruit orchard nursery. Do you use or sell the seed of the fruits you try?
I buy the discounted 'wonky' grapes at the supermarket. It's luck of the draw what variety you get and sometimes even grapes on the same bunch are drastically different in colour and flavour, but it's interesting and they're cheap. I tried the moon drops once I think, or a very similarly long grape. I like that you can take 2 or 3 nibbles before the grape is done.
Well Jared, another fun one as always, Regarding the "Witches Fingers" variety , that looks a lot like a purple-black variant on a variety that at least locally we call lady fingers, though I remember that variety having a flavor closer to muscat (moscato) grapes. As to the Muscadine , now that one, I have to see about geting my hands on, that one looks like it would be very easy to munch on like you would a bowl of table grapes,
Hey Weird explorer, have you ever heard of bunya nuts? They're hands down the best tasting nut I've ever had; like a sweet, starchy potato with an overall pine flavour. If you ever plan on coming to Australia you should definitely look into them, might find some in america if youre lucky!
Awesome :) It would take some planning because they only fruit every 3 years, but their unique to deliciousness ratio is worth it, plus Achacha come into season around the same time too ;)
You can definitely get them in Southern US and Southern Europe as adult trees will fruit at lower latitudes. If you visit Lisbon or Barcelona around this time of the year you might see the huge pine nuts felt under the trees at the parks with yellow tape around them so people dont walk by and die lol.. There aren't many trees around at all, specially old enough to fruit, but you can find some, maybe even every year (?).... I can confirm that they are quite tasty tho, you could also try Araucaria angustifolia, the Parana pine from Southern Brazil, smaller pines and nuts, similar or better flavor, in the same genus.
Tiedied Bandit Why wash it though? There's nothing on a grape that you wouldn't end consuming on you daily commute. Do you wash your hands every time you touch a door handle or stair railing? Bet you don't, and that has a far higher chance of causing illness than the microbiological flora on an unwashed grape. I bet you wash your chicken too 😅
him blocking the view while eating the stubby grape was the best part
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- bring elongated grapes
My mom bought them thinking they were normal and I was like "mini eggplant?"
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When you hesitated then held the grapes in front of your face when you ate one I cackled so hard. I love your sense of humour. Great videos btw just in general.
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muscadines are my favorite. As a child my uncle grew them and had this huge vine that wrapped over around around his front doorway. The taste iis amazing so for ME that was the taste of a grape growing up. Of course all the other grapes I had as an adult did not taste like that and I basically forgot about it until just a few years ago while visiting a relative who took us to a farmers market. Once there I saw these enormous purple grapes, bought a small bag, tasted the first one and was instantly and unexpectedly transported back to my childhood! I would love to find my own vine so that I could always have muscadines.
Muscadines are also my favorite fruit. So flavorful and sweet! Work really well in wine too! Pop em right out of the skin into my mouth please!
Found your channel researching Gros Michel bananas....and now I've fallen into a fruit rabbit hole. XD
Glad to hear it :)
Me too haha!
Ummmm..... Have you tried the drug Sugarloaf or White Jade? OMG! I order them from Kauai.
Just order the 3 pack or you'll be angry because you'll have to pay the cost shipping again.
I found this channel researching some tropical almonds i had in puerto rico. Awesome find and im glad i went down this fruit rabbit hole lol.
We have Moon Drops in my local Meijer store. They were on sale when I first got them, $1.99 a lb. I found them to be super sweet, I loved them, oh and I think they lasted longer than a typical green grape.
That moment when somebody buys them for you thinking they're normal but they're LONG
Longevity is one thing I dislike about grocery stores. You have NO idea how long an items has been sitting there getting more ripe, etc...so by the time you take it home it could last only a few days, a week or even longer.
My fred meyer had them for 3.99 a lb last year.
Looks like ya had a grape time.
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muzumaki619 You are sentenced to the Punitentiary.
Wine all you want: we here like puns.
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Well. A few months of fruit obsession later, you're my new favourite RUclipsr. Absolutely love it, keep up the good work.
Thanks! Plenty more on the way
I love your channel. I always wanted to travel, love trying new things, but this hasn't really been an option for me, so I get to vicariously have these experiences through your descriptions.
"except not the titty fruit. that's poison. that'll mess ya up." /dead.
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“Uhh these grapes look like... I don’t wanna say it. There might be kids watching”
*minutes later*
*T I T T Y F R U I T*
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If your breasts look like that, you might have a medical condition called tuberous breasts.
@@Tepadj its titty, not breasts, ask any dairy farmer for an education.
I'm a kid, I'm 12 years old!
thats a weird tiddy if you think its that long and saggy
This is so much fun, watching you` eat fruit and describing it! My new odd interest!
lol me too
You should try Mustang grapes!
Just kidding, don't. My dad tricked me with some of those. They're so acidic they can cause chemical burns and you have to use gloves. My mouth hurt for days.
Oof.. thats a good practical joke though haha. ..
I wonder if the Mustang, scuppenhime and your Muscadene are all in the same family. All three are used for making wine and jellies. All have a thick rind, high acidity, high pectin levels and low sugar content.
Wow. Your dad is pure evil.
Boop Loop Now that’s what i call abusive parenting
Boop Loop are those like the wild grapes we have in the south that are like really small and seedy muscadines? I’ve eaten those before but never had the reaction you describe. Sounds painful.
I'm from Tennessee and you can grow muscadines here. I see people growing them on fences. I absolutely love them. I eat the whole thing avoiding the seeds. I'll eat an entire carton in one sitting. Im so excited they're in season now!
We had green muskadine grapes growing at our lake-house property in Louisiana, and I loved them. I'd take a break while mowing the property or exploring & eat them exactly as you did, biting a hole then squeezing the meat out and spitting the seeds. You could also invert the skins and scrape the flesh from the inside and it was more tart than the flesh. Overall the green muskadine is more tart but not sour and I love them.
When I lived in Taiwan I ate a bunch of those Muscadine grapes & they are FREAKING DELICIOUS! Remember everyone's taste buds are different. To me, they were well worth the little extra work.
You really are a weird fruit explorer! It’s amazing that you literally have 189 videos each with a different type of food that is strange and unique. Well done! Can you look into finding a plethora of strange apples? There are so many different types of apples that you can discover out there it would be great to see 5 strange types of apples, or maybe do an “apple week” where you do a different apple each day for a week, and then at the end of the week you decide which of the 5 apples is the best tasting.
Up to almost 300 episodes now :) I had some apples in Berlin. Definitely will do more variety comparisons in the future. Thanks!
Thank you for the info on grapes. I’m hooked on grapes and after your video I’ll be in grape heaven with more flavors. Keep up the videos info on fruits around our world. ✌🏼😌
Muscadines are popular curiosity fruits in the south US fresh and as a wine.
Them and Scupanong not spelled correctly are about the only grapes I'll eat. I either harvest them wild yes they grow everywhere in north Florida or from people's small arbors,family and friends.
This is probably one of my favorite videos of Jared eating grapes. I live in NY too, and I had no clue Eataly had these. Maybe I'll climb that building again after the pandemic.
Moondrops are my favorite variety of grapes I've tried. I want to try some of the other varieties that the Grapery grows.
Muscadine and/or muscatel grapes grow wild in East Texas. There is a winery near Orange, Texas that specializes in muscadines.
🤣🤣I love your reviews! I grew up eating muscadines and scuppernongs. They grew wild in our county. There are some really lovely varieties of both that are good for fresh eating but the rest are recommended for jelly and wine. They are full of vitamins and antioxidants. Thanks for sharing! 😊💜
Muscadines are delicious, we get them really ripe here in Florida and they taste really sweet and they have a super tropical flavor. I dont know why but the rind tastes kind of peppery sour taste, and Jaboticaba tastes like a mix between grape and rambutan with a totally bitter skin. Its so cool how much fruit diversity there is!
I like adding muscadine grapes to my honey mead. Most wonderful.
These are at my local grocery store all the time. Love the Moondrops and Cotton Candy grapes. The Witch's Finger grapes are good to.
I needed to watch the candy cotton candy with those variety, but thanks . you are the best one I ever heard to describe flavours , thats a real talent
thanks!
Love muscadines! They are very common in the Deep South in August and September. In fact, you can sometimes find them growing in the wild. Those are smaller, but taste the same. There is a green/gold variety called Scuppernongs, which taste slightly more musky. Both make great jellies. I love them best out of hand though.
Musk-ca-dine(dine as in dining), there is a sweet variety. It is used for making a sweet wine.
My local supermarket just got these grapes in and I had to try them. I also bought red grapes and green grapes. The flavor of those new elongated grapes was so much better and sweeter, than the other grapes. I'm definitely going to keep buying them!
We call the "witches finger" grapes Uva Pizzutello in Rome and it's quite known here in Italy!! My favorite type of grapes~
This channel has a pleasant vibe to it
I also read that muscadines got their name because they have an undertone that reminds people of an animal’s musk.
Yes, they're complex and mysterious tasting.
If you haven't tried these already, there's a miniature sized grape that's extremely sweet (3 times as sweet as a raspberry) they're called Cabernet grapes and you can find them frozen at Publix. The seeds are about the size of a poppy seed, but a little bit smaller, and I like eating them with raspberries because the tartness goes well with the grapes.
Southerners typically pronounce muscadine with the "i" being long. You should try scuppernongs they're the white grape version of muscadines
Muscadine grapes grow wild everywhere down here in the south. You'll see the vines all on the side of the road and going up trees. I love them. The green ones are especially tasty
I'm sitting alone eating these while watching your video. They are amazing!
Moondrop grapes are the best.. and you can buy them on sale at regular grocery stores now.
moondrops are honestly some of my favorite fruit now. they're just so refreshing.
We called the muscadines "bullet grapes" where I grew up in Florida! The skin is tart and kind of bitter. It also causes your mouth to itch! When they are ripe, you can just apply a bit of pressure to the skin of the grape and it should pop open! My favorite part is that tiny drop of juice and ssuuppeerr sweet jelly like flesh right on the inside of the skin. The green ones still get really sweet but are more tart! They are so good. I hope you try them again!
FYI, muscadines are native to Dixie (not Italy, Taiwan, or anywhere else in Eurasia, though the climate might be suitable for them in Taiwan) They have been used for wine, but are grown mainly because Pierce's disease and other local pathogens kill off non-native species, and are mostly eaten fresh by homeowners, not sold, even the Southeast. They get huge, but are in tiny clusters and picked individually (raising labor costs even if market bias and industrial ag/grocery monotony could be broken). Bronze ones are often called "scuppernongs" after an ancient cultivar of that color. The ripest of those (reddish) taste very sugary, and a little bit like bubblegum. Cultivars probably vary though. Jam (remove seeds & the peel) comes out a little bit like apple jelly--reasonable to process a glut, but uninteresting and probably inferior to mayhaws (crabapple-like native hawthorns, another fruit that apparently doesn't exist to the idiots at Ocean Spray that apparently think Massachusetts=USA so that the "only" native fruit are cranberries, blueberries, and fox/Concord grapes--learn to at least read, Yanks!). Muscadine leaves are too small for dolmas. The vines themselves are rapidly growing monsters (take spacing recommendations seriously and don't treat like Vitis vinifera in the PNW for example), the "flying buttresses of the [live] oak forests" [Bartram].
Dixie is just another name for the SE USA (a poetic nickname, as "Albion" is for England, and "Cathay" or "the Middle Kingdom" is for China), which, yes, does include Florida (particularly north of Ocala, Florida even retains "Southern" culture). Muscadines tend to be grown in North & Central Florida because the extreme south (which ironically was so flooded by Yankees that it mostly lost its Southern cultural heritage) tends to attract experimentation with more tropical types of fruit (& since the grapes are deciduous, I suppose lack of sufficient chilling hours might be a problem at some point [many plants only "wake up" in spring after X hours below 45°F, so with peaches, plums, pears, etc, it becomes vital to choose a cultivar whose chilling requirement matches your local climate], as with most deciduous fruit). Welcome to Dixie!
Erik Johnson Thanks I remember eating these at my aunts house from her backyard in North Carolina. I was thrown off by all that Asia talk..lol
Muscadines are my favorite food. They also happen to be, arguably, the healthiest food in the world.
Erik Johnson I hope you take this the best way, because it's meant as a compliment, but in my head you have one of those Coastal Georgian Aristocrat from the 19th century accents...
Dear Jungle, I am a Capitalist, tree hugging, health nut.
I had a really grape time watching that video! I remember a few years ago, I got from my normal, local grocery store some huge grapes. They were green and seedless but they were HUGE. They were round and so big that I had to eat each in 2 or more bites (and not small bites either). They tasted pretty good, I thought they would be bland but they weren't. Unfortunately, I have not seen them since, but I will never forget them.
weird! Maybe they were scuppernongs? Those are big and not too uncommon
I just had moon drops and cotton candy grapes! Amazing! my favorite varieties thus far!
The Black grapes you showed we call them finger grapes here in Canada 🇨🇦. I LOVE them!!! Definitely eat they alone watching TV lol
The Gum Drop grapes from The Grapery are my favorites! Sweetest grapes I’ve ever tasted.
Have you tried sugar cane? Those were some cool grapes by the way, I liked cotton candy grapes when I tried them.
I have! Its good, very refreshing
Cool, I was thinking about trying it. Will you do a review?
FruityDude That stuff is gnawed-on by children as a snack in my native Thailand. They're terrible for your teeth, though! Both abrasive to the enamel AND loaded with the glucose that cavity-causing bacteria love.
I love sugar cane! I only have them when a family member brings them from Haiti. They are a pain to eat though
Taste like not processed sugar
these are now mainstream and available for $2 / lb in any grocery store.
When I was a little kid I confused muscadine with muskrat. I realized this just now. watching your video.
The moondrop variety were great, best grape I've tasted.
We have those in a local store but they’re called MoonGrapes. I’m pretty sure they are also made by The Grapery. So crunchy, so juicy, so good.
I watched this video not too long ago. Today going through the grocery store I say Moondrop grapes from the same company, Grapery. You got ripped off man! I paid $4 ($1.99/lbs). That's here on the west coast too. I had to pick them up just to try them.
Welcome to NYC :P We get ripped off for everything
Same here in Taxachu, umm, I mean Massachusetts. $1.99 a pound at the local markets.
@@jfrphoto01 bro...I do not remember saying this at all or even trying these grapes. Wtf?
I love the Moon Drops with a sharp cheese. I didn't find the price last Summer to be prohibitive compared to the price of other varieties.
These grapes. Ate the whole lot when I bought it. Delicious. Mine were black no seeds and like sugar in a pod.
I bought a bag of the black fingers from [of all places] Food Lion here in Charlottesville Virginia. $1.99 Lb. The skins were mare 'tannic' than most grapes I've tried. Also, Fred Sanford [Sanford & Son] loved his Muscatelle ripple!
I think the question should be if these were the same price as normal grapes which would you choose? Which order?.. some more often than others?
Thanks for the video.
I always enjoy them 👍
Witch's Finger grapes are my favorite sort of grape, hands down. Each one is a snack in and of itself.
I kind of wished you had sliced the grapes open so we could have seen the inside of each variety of the fruit, not just try to explain to us the flavor of them..
hmm... good point, I'll try and do that more in the future.
They look like normal grape inside just elongated.
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Hi Baby keep guessing I’m not telling
The last syllable is dine with a long I ( dine as in dining) . My father in law grew them for grape juice and to make jelly. My mother in law made pies with the skins.
The Muscadine grape is native to the southeastern USA and grows wild and is cultivated. It is frequently made into wine. The last syllable of muscadine and the word wine rhyme with each other. Some of the varieties of muscadine a are also called scuppernong or bullis grapes and they are delicious.
Southern muscadine grapes are typically eaten late in the summer into fall, it's the best "grape" EVER. They have the true grape flavor, the best wine is made from them, and they are very sweet, no sour or bitter to them if you pick them in the right season. They should be ripe enough that you simply have to squeeze the grape and the inside comes out into your mouth.
I have had them all included the cotton candy which was very good and sweet. not so expensive compared to what you paid.
Good episode! Thank you.
you're very welcome
You got snowed big time! We have those at our regular local big box department grocery store for about $5.00 for the same ammount you got.
Have you done a video on the scuppernong grape? It's my favorite local fruit, I live in Raleigh NC.
Muscat grapes (which are usually half pinkish half greenish) are elite and probably my favourite fruit. Strawberry grapes are also pretty good.
Speaking of Eataly and fruit, they make an excellent fruit focaccia in several seasonal varieties. Pretty good price too.
Oh yeah? I haven't had that one. Sometimes I'll go in and buy a chunk of the tomato and cheese focaccia and a coffee for lunch, surprisingly reasonable considering
@@WeirdExplorer Yea thats the weird thing about Eataly, the food is super expensive but the cooked/restaurant food is surprisingly well priced, I used to love the vegetable place Le Verdure before it closed... Anyway, I literally just went to my corner store and bough $38 of fruit and made fruit salad. Thank you sir, inspired.
I've actually eaten witch's fingers! They was more sour than I've expected, but good... Crispyness was very pleasant.
And also Cotton Candy one! Also good, sweeter than witch fingers... But I remember them to be quite tangy.
And both for quite normal grape price in my country, both bought at Market Square in Cracow.
One of the best things about Market Square in Cracow is variety of products. It's seasonal and quite random, but if you live nearby, you can sometimes buy very interesting things from around the world. Said grapes, bananas with seeds, quite cheap mangoes (trashy variety but still...), English and German sweets, teas, cofees and cocoa, whole bunch of middle-eastern products, obviously Polish products, including interesting kinds of cheese and meat of quite camerally raised animals (I've tried chicken and pork, the difference in taste is suprising, and also it's pleasant to think that an animal you eat lived in better place and conditions than most of them) , vegan products, weird man's sugarless tinctures about which the legends are that he find the ingredients for them in trash, and much more.
I have both a muscadine grape vine and Jaboticaba tree. The muscadine is about 19 years old and the Jaboticaba is 3 according to who I bought it from. I haven't yet got any fruit on the Jaboticaba.
nice, hope it fruits for you soon
Wow really great episode you hit on so many favorites. I love Eataly here in Las Vegas and now you gave me an excuse to go further explore the place for fruit. I don't think they have any there but any excuse you know. The witches fingers are so delicious I love the texture and they are wonderful to eat several at a time and it's very decadent. The bag I got was only five bucks and I still thought it was a lot but they tasted a little more purple than average red grapes to me. That last grape the Muscat 1 seems a lot like how I like to eat concord grapes how this sweet inside pops out full of chunky seeds and then the extra tasty skin part.
Oh cool. I didn't know there was an EATaly outside nyc. Great place, but I can't go without spending $50
Lmao... “I think if you were to sell these as baby fingers... people might not buy them so much”
Muscadines are Native here in Mississippi. The one you are should be very sweet...if not I am guessing they might be shipped green and gassed to appear ripe. Muscadine grapes are used for muscatel wine, which is a very sweet red. The green variation is the scuppernong. We pop them in our mouth and pressing the fruit between the tong and the roof of the mouth, the sweet pulp will pop out. We usually spit out the husk and seeds.
I had it twice and thought it was mini eggplant on serving plate.
i love these grapes. my favorite
I been on a farm for a couple years now and between the 150+ lbs of muscadines I harvest every summer and the apringwater I've basically been persephone'd. I bring my own food and water now when I visit my family in the city.
Recently found your channel. Very pleasant informative. Keep up the good work. The Georgia PecAn Company is good.
That looks like a Black Beauty or Supreme muscadine variety. The skin of those are much more palatable than some other varietys. They were developed for fresh eating.
the reason why you don't eat the outside of the round grape is because there are usually a lot of pesticides coating it and since the skin is so thick it's impossible to get all of it out through washing...
they look so good I hope I see them when I go to China town this week
Perfect Halloween appetizer.
I had some of those not too long ago. Every once in a while our local Kroger will get in something unique. They were on sale for 2.49 a pound so not that bad. You’re right though - funny shape but same grape taste. 👍
They are called moondrop grapes here. I like them. We have them at times at our local grocery . They are sweet. We pay around 7$ for a bag that size.
My mother has some Croatian blue grapes growing in Norway. They are the most tasty grapes I have ever had and I love them despite the seeds. So good to make wine or liqueurs of. They have survived -20 celsius winters.
In China we have a rose flavored grape cultivar which I like a lot. Once by accident I found in UK their Sable grape also has rose flavor. Its quite weird that when I was searching for rose grape, there was not too much information about it.
Hmm... I've never heard of that, but will certainly review it if I find it
Weird Explorer we call that meiguixiang
When I was a child in North Central North Carolina we had grape vines that grew on the property line between our land and the neighbors land. The vines were large and well established, they meandered back and forth, slightly zigzagging across the property line. The vines produced, wonderful, large, round, thick skinned grapes. The grapes were a lovely bronze color with areas of dark speckling, some were blushed with a greenish tint and others in autum hues of gold and reds. The grapes had a strong but wonderful flavor with floral aromas and a not unplesant but decidedly musky finish. I've done research as an adult and believe the grapes the locals called Fox Grapes were actually a type of scuppernong grapes.
The skin of the grapes was bitter and musky so we usually didn't consume it. The neighbor children and my sister and I used to argue over ownership of the grapes. We'd debate for ages about which property owned the grapes. Did all of the grapes on a certain vine belong to the child whose parents owned the property from which that vine sprang or did the grapes belong to whoever's property they hung over? The older girl neighbor always changed her argument to whichever side of the argument resulted in posession of the largest number of ripe grapes for her family and her younger sister would provide fierce backup.
The older girl grew up to work on Capital Hill and her younger sister became a prominent attorney in D.C.. I like to think our fierce debates over ownership of the fox grapes fueled their interest in politics and law. I probably should have become an attorney because I usially managed to secure the majority of the grapes for my sistet and I with "facts" I created. Lol
It's been a half of a century and I still remember those wonderful grapes.
Moon Drops are my favorite grape. I worked in produce and these have the best flavor.
Heh. When the market near my apartment had Moondrop grapes, they were at most half that price. Also, when you do get the chance, haskap/honey berry is delicious.
Hopefully I'll find them for sale one of these days
A couple of years ago I actually saw them for sale at Whole Foods, kicking myself for not picking up some.
Weird grapes = instant fun at parties
Muscadines grow wild here in east Texas on the edges of the woods. I thought they were called 'muskydimes' when I was a kid, because of how they are generally pronounced. I put the 'm' on the end myself though....
The skins will make your lips and face itch when you eat the inside through the skins. They do have some seeds. They weren't my favorite. They might have been good peeled and juiced, but we just ate them then and there. People make jelly/preserves with them, but I never had any from that particular fruit.
I'm trying to grow all the fruits I try and like from seed...indoor gardening. I have a fruit orchard nursery. Do you use or sell the seed of the fruits you try?
I just send them to Patreon supporters, not with any huge regularity, just when I get them.
I buy the discounted 'wonky' grapes at the supermarket. It's luck of the draw what variety you get and sometimes even grapes on the same bunch are drastically different in colour and flavour, but it's interesting and they're cheap. I tried the moon drops once I think, or a very similarly long grape. I like that you can take 2 or 3 nibbles before the grape is done.
Well Jared, another fun one as always, Regarding the "Witches Fingers" variety , that looks a lot like a purple-black variant on a variety that at least locally we call lady fingers, though I remember that variety having a flavor closer to muscat
(moscato) grapes. As to the Muscadine , now that one, I have to see about geting my hands on, that one looks like it would be very easy to munch on like you would a bowl of table grapes,
as long as you also have another bowl out for all the seeds :)
"Lady Fingers" are the bomb! It would be incredible if they could develop a seedless variety.
I ALWAYS wanna try those witch finger grapes!!!
A lewd fruits party sounds like a wonderful idea!
Hey Weird explorer, have you ever heard of bunya nuts? They're hands down the best tasting nut I've ever had; like a sweet, starchy potato with an overall pine flavour. If you ever plan on coming to Australia you should definitely look into them, might find some in america if youre lucky!
Those look amazing. I'll definitely look out for them when I get out to Australia :)
Awesome :) It would take some planning because they only fruit every 3 years, but their unique to deliciousness ratio is worth it, plus Achacha come into season around the same time too ;)
You can definitely get them in Southern US and Southern Europe as adult trees will fruit at lower latitudes. If you visit Lisbon or Barcelona around this time of the year you might see the huge pine nuts felt under the trees at the parks with yellow tape around them so people dont walk by and die lol.. There aren't many trees around at all, specially old enough to fruit, but you can find some, maybe even every year (?)....
I can confirm that they are quite tasty tho, you could also try Araucaria angustifolia, the Parana pine from Southern Brazil, smaller pines and nuts, similar or better flavor, in the same genus.
Try Niagara Grapes they have a sweet wine taste , I freeze them to help keep wine chilled in the glass .
Don't you wash your fruit?
EliteXtasy also wondering that
screw that - let the natural yeasts and pesticides do its job
why not just wash it tho?
Tiedied Bandit Why wash it though? There's nothing on a grape that you wouldn't end consuming on you daily commute. Do you wash your hands every time you touch a door handle or stair railing? Bet you don't, and that has a far higher chance of causing illness than the microbiological flora on an unwashed grape. I bet you wash your chicken too 😅
cone conington ever tried eating dirt?
2020 Those Grapery grapes are now only like 3$ a bag in Aldi . Absolutely worth the novelty... expecially the cotton candy ones
I had these finger grapes for the first time a couple months ago.. they tasted so good, but had more aftertaste bitterness. Much cheaper now.
Weird fruit guy knows how to have fun at a party.
They are called "Moon grapes " in Denver
I never realised there were weird grapes but I suddenly have a burning desire to know all...