If you want to eat a pawpaw, you’ve got to be quick. Pawpaws, or “hillbilly bananas,” have to ripen on the tree, which means they usually fall to the ground when they are ready. “One of the funny, key ...
There's a fruit that grows on farms in 40 states. It is native to much of the eastern U.S., and it has its own song. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WAY DOWN YONDER IN THE PAW PAW PATCH") BURL IVES: (Singing) ...
As the folk song lyrics go, when asked where “pretty little Susie” is, the answer is “pickin' up paw-paws, puttin' 'em in her pockets, way down yonder in the paw-paw patch.” A little-known fruit, the ...