In Portuguese 'Adão' means Adam. I wonder why this fruit was named after
Adão?
Come to think of it, in the past whenever we came across a male with a
protruding thyroid cartilage on the front of his neck, also known as
‘Adam’s Apple’, we would say: 'Tachea talleak Adão-hachem foll
xirkolam.' (An Adam’s fruit is stuck to his throat.) We often noticed
such a thyroid cartilage on singers’ throats.
There were many Adão trees in Anjuna and as kids we ate a lot of Adão
fruit, especially fallen ones, which were ‘amor-piké’(semi ripe) and
were nibbled by bats; they were tasty. Since they are a dry-type fruit,
a glass of water at the end of the eating session clears the throat.
The fruit also reminds me of a seven-worded rhyme which we would use
whenever one of us farted and we wanted to know who did it. At the
utterance of each word, finger was pointed at a friend; the person who
got the last word was blamed for the fart, but before starting it, we
would have a quick dry-run in our mind to make sure it didn’t boomerang
on the person narrating it. It went thus:
Adão, Pedão, Sakri Pedão, Ddam-Ddum-Fus!
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna, Goa
Mob: 9420979201
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