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@noiob not necessarily grilled I guess, that's just how we've had them
just the pads of the cactus used as a vegetable. they're pretty good
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@Felthry a lot of things can be called "nopal", apparently
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@noiob yeah looking it up apparently it's just the Spanish word for the plant or something
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@Felthry we don't have edible cacti here
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@Felthry well, we don't have any cacti here, natively
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@Felthry ah, there's also a ton of cacti known as prickly pear, and they hybridzise easily
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@noiob yeah it's a whole genus i think? but it's like different varieties of apple, they're more like different flavors of the same fruit than anything
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@Felthry I wonder if there's a way to get any of those around here, I wanna know how it tastes :D
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@Felthry oh, a popular kind of ice tea here contains prickly pear
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@noiob ooh really? that's neat :D
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@Felthry 0.1% of it
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@noiob probably not too much flavor then
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@Felthry it's concentrate so it's probably more than it sounds like
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@noiob you should look into it! Getting the actual fruit would probably be hard but I know prickly pear candy is popular in mexico and would probably be possible to import. might even be able to find it at a specialty grocery store!
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@noiob https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HZICGS?tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1 example of prickly pear candy! this one's a sort of gummy candy, we've had it and it's good
they also make prickly pear jam and soda that you might be able to find too
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@Felthry I mostly find weird supplements lol
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@noiob prickly pears are the fruit, nopales are grilled cactus pads