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#3481042 15-Apr-2026 14:47

floydbloke:

Does anyone actually like to eat feijoas?

Big fan here. They are the most under-appreciated fruit outside the Garden of Eden!

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#3481056 15-Apr-2026 15:46

I quite like them, but wife hates the smell.

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#3481062 15-Apr-2026 16:01

I hate them. Im guessing its like that soap salad ingredient where some people like them because they cant taste how gross they are.

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#3481129 15-Apr-2026 16:49

Feijoas are great. Once a year I give my guts a real working over by stewing a huge pot of them, while eating half of them in the process.

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#3481146 15-Apr-2026 18:59

Love them. Unfortunately they’re quite sugary though.

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#3481985 18-Apr-2026 19:45

Every now and then I'll try a samosa in thr hope that next one ends up tasting as good as they look. Had a vegetable one tonight and it was the same as all the others I've had - dry and needing a drink to help swallow it.

That was until I ate it with the curry I also had on my plate - what a difference.

Are they normally dry? Maybe they're supposed to be eaten with something saucy like a curry?

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#3482016 18-Apr-2026 20:55

Samosa and pakora etc are often dipped in tamarind sauce. It is not a hot sauce and it has a cooling effect. It's a difficult taste to describe but it works 100%.

That said I don't ever recall having a samosa that I'd describe as 'dry'. I wonder if you're experiencing the pie-in-the-warmer-all-day effect or something similar ; ).

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#3482230 19-Apr-2026 18:08

I don't know where this belongs. but I couldn't find a "Thanks to the Moderators" thread here.

Thanks to the Mod who fixed the formatting of my post in the Stuff etc Headlines Thread.

I've previously tried to do that and ended up with a disaster, so I decided I don't have enough years left on this planet to try now.

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#3482562 20-Apr-2026 15:28

Question for those with the rolled out Google Gemini (not the preview) on home devices like Streamer and Nest Hub. Does settings in the home user app for the device allow switching to the standard Google Assistant?

I'm aware phone assistant allows that. I'm wondering about other devices. It might be too early to ask.

The documentation says no but the documentation is all over the place.

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#3482564 20-Apr-2026 15:33

floydbloke:

Does anyone actually like to eat feijoas?

They are one of my favourite fruits. That aromatic flavour is juts amazing. I eat them straight up of course and I also make feijoa crumble and feijoa vodka.

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#3482649 20-Apr-2026 23:16

MadEngineer:

Every now and then I'll try a samosa ... and it was the same as all the others I've had - dry and needing a drink to help swallow it. ... Are they normally dry? ...

gzt: ... That said I don't ever recall having a samosa that I'd describe as 'dry'. I wonder if you're experiencing the pie-in-the-warmer-all-day effect or something similar ; ).

Can't comment on "the real deal" from India, but compared to South Africa, the samoosa's here in NZ definitely are "drier" and the pastry is more "pasty" than crisp & crunchy. I also believe the content has more moisture

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#3482659 21-Apr-2026 07:15

ANglEAUT:

South Africa, the samoosa

A South African at work calls them "samoosas", pronounced as if it had an extra O, and we always just considered that to be one of her own idiosyncrasies. Is that a common pronunciation in SA, or did you just make a typo?