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If any visitors on STT on Sunday August 19 would like to enjoy something a little different and support a worthy cause, The Toad and Tart English Pub will be hosting its annual "Genips For Crits" fundraiser for the Humane Society of STT from 10-4PM, right outside the pub on the Smith Bay Road.
Young summer volunteers from the HS will be selling the genips to passing motorists on both sides of the road (just $1 for a big bunch!) while, if you'd like to park up, we'll be serving a BBQ lunch from 11-3. (Just $5 for a big plate of either an 8oz hamburger or a 1/4 chicken with all the trimmings!)
There'll also be some great puppies and adult dogs showing their talents and begging to be adopted, while volunteers from the Humane Society will have special commemorative tee shirts for sale (wearing a "Genips For Crits" tee back home wiill really make you stand out!)
If you don't know how to eat genips, we'll show you how and of course the bar will be open!
All proceeds from this event go to the Humane Society and we'd love to see you. Cheers!
I hope all go out and support this wonderful cause 🙂
Thanks STT Resident (you old tart you 😉 - miss your wisdom on the relo forum)
Luv ya Pia
Well, good event.
But question 'tart'??? Is this an even exchange for grits????
Just alittle play on words from the "tart in training" I was so honored to be called this from the "old tart" herself in an email along time ago 🙂
Pia
Hmmmmm, that would have been quite nice had we been together with the "tart" and the "tart in training' while we were down there.
Crits as in "CRITTERS" promoguy! And who WERE you with anyway?
Pia, too bad you didn't see the tees we had made up for the lithe young fillies at our Chili cook-off booth a few years ago. Emblazoned across the front was T.I.T. with, underneath, "Tart In Training." They were quite fetching. What was more hilarious was that one of the young blondes who was, shall we say, a little over-concerned about her good looks, went for a little walk-about then, upon her return, plonked down in a chair and sulkily said, "I thought everyone was looking at ME and then I remembered what I was wearing!"
I mean a tart and T-I-T but there was no T-I-T
STT, have you figured a way to do any cooking with genips?
RL
No, I imagine they'd be a bit of a pain to play around with. Years ago I seem to recall reading in one of Arona Peterson's books a recipe for making a salad dressing which involved using not only the juice but the ground-up pits.
You have any recipes?
No, was just wondering. LOL
RL
That's soooo funny 🙂
Pia
Oh I forgot - any T-Shirts available this year ?
Thanks Pia
I would love to tell you all how to eat genips (pronounced w/ soft 'g' guh-nips ), but no matter how I give the instructions, it sounds R rated. To me they taste like sweettarts. They look like big green grapes with lime skins. They grow on a tree, but do not mistake grape-palm trees for genips. Those things are just palm tree seeds or something. Not edible. The trees genips grow on look like a regular hard wood tree. We went hiking on STJ and found tons of genip trees with genips in season. Anyway, buy some from 'genips for crits' and support a good cause. Wish I could be there!
Teresa
Teresa: Glad you decided against the description of "how to eat a genip."
Pia - yes, HS has special tees made up with "Genips For Crits" on them. Great conversation-starters for visitors to wear back home and when I wear mine from past years the locals here get a chuckle out of them too. Must get to work. Cheers!
Used to eat them in Key West but think they were called Spanish Limes there ... sure looked and tasted like the same as "gneips" in the VI. A few of years ago I found them in one of the local HIspanic shops but they also had another name for them.
Would genips be of any help in a salsa? Like peaches or mangos or keylimes? I have no idea what they are...but plan on googling them soon. 🙂
Can't imagine how one might "salsa" 'em ... my brother used to peel 'em, soak 'em with lots of rum and sugar to make a drink out them but don't know how it did it. They really aren't like lemons or limes but more like lychees. But I certainly will leave the explaination of eating of them to the island experts! (and since I just reread my previous post, the spelling too! lol sorrry)
OK, Genip-Eating 101. Crack the hard outer shell with your teeth to split. Inside the shell is a big pit covered with a gelatinous sort of orange stringy goo. Pop the pit in your mouth, suck off the goo. Spit out pit, repeat. Spend next few hours picking the fibrous strands out of your teeth.
I prefer to spit out (in a very ladylike fashion, naturally, and with the aid of a fine linen handkerchief) the fibre once the juice has gone down the hatch because the fibres are, according to lore, a powerful anti-diarrhretic so if you don't have THAT problem you could have the opposite one a few hours later. Cheers!
Just wanted to "bump" this up - such a good cause 🙂 🙂 🙂
Pia
Genips are the same thing as Spanish Limes that is what they are called in Florida. Some Hispanic, Cubans in particular call them (Mamoseeo) not sure about that spelling. I am not sure if Puerto Ricans call them the same thing. . But the correct English name as stated in the American Heritage dictionary is Genips
Thanks for bringing that great cause to the board. I wish you all much success with this event.
