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"We had panini up there," ‘Ilima says of Kawaihae Uka, "and we ate a lot of panini. There is the red panini and the yellow panini. The red panini we’d feed our pigs. The yellow panini we’d feed the kids, or the family. And we usually got it from the higher elevations, because it was a lot cooler and the Kawaihae one was a lot sweeter because it was always warm. There’s lots of it up there. We would cut both ends of the panini and make a slit to the center and peel off the skin. I remember if you ate the red panini, it made your shishi red. And it used to frighten us, and it’s not as sweet as the yellow panini. And of course if you ate too much panini you get constipation."
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"The only thing is when you pick it you need to be very careful because of what we call heu—lots of small little stickers that would go into your pores. They’re so fine. So what we did when we went to pick panini, we would pick up some grass and throw it to the wind and see whatever way the wind blew. And we would stand upwind of the panini. And we would get a bunch of grass and kind of brush it, to take the heu off, and then we’d cut it, we pick it. "You know, we were not always successful getting all the heu off. Guaranteed you’re going to come home with some heu in your fingers. So how we would take the heu off, we would rub it on our hair. Static electricity, it would take it off. Amazing, yeah, we just rubbed it in our hair and it would come out. Or else we’d get a piece, one rock and just rub, rub, rub."
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"But that was our fruit, panini, and guavas, and both of them gave us constipation. So every Saturday my Mom would give us Castor Oil and we had our choice of colors: red, green or white, or clear."
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