Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your eyes- and your extensive knowledge of all things Italian.
What IS this:
All the holiday fairs means lots of candy stands and this fruit is mocking me from the stalls. Every vendor I meet, I ask “Come si chiama in inglese?” What is it called in English?
“Non esiste.” It doesn’t exist.
But I KNOW this fruit. There is something so familiar about this fruit and I simply cannot accept that it doesn’t exist outside of Italy.
Boh… I don’t think I’ve even seen that before, what’s it called in Italian?
It’s “carruba” so I should have been able to figure out what everyone else already did- it’s carob!
Looks like a carob pod? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carob_tree
YES! Thank you so much, that was driving me crazy. THAT’S why it’s so familiar… I was a vegan/vegetarian for a long time, so I always saw it in health food stores, but only cooked with it in powdered form.
Could it be carob? In Spanish it is called “algarroba”. I’ve looked for the translation and it’s carob.
I had to ask my mom because I didn’t remember the name in Spanish either! hehe
You’re absolutely right! I feel less crazy now. Carob.
bloggers to the rescue! I thought it was a vanilla pod or something, I’m clueless when it’s not labeled for me 🙂
in hebrew its “haroov”