A picture is worth a thousand words, and when I saw the noni at the central market in Cuzco, I knew it was the perfect fruit for Halloween. It looks horrifying, like one of those squishy eyeball-balls. When I squeezed it, it even felt like one of those squishy eyeball-balls.
At left, noni. At right, eyeball-ball. Horrifying all around.And the noni's smell? Pungent, vile, and disgusting. To say the least.
Seriously guys, it's awful, and we could barely bring ourselves to try it.
Our dedication to FotD compelled us to taste the noni, albeit barely, and its taste lived up to its smell. Gross.The woman at the market told us it's usually consumed as juice (obviously with a LOT of other flavours and/or sweeteners). She also said noni is used to cure cancer but Wikipedia reports that it was "explored unsuccessfully" for that use. However, "in Hawaii, ripe fruits are applied to draw out pus from an infected boil." How charming.
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