Preacher wrote on Nov 5^th, 2010 at 5:56pm:

I see persimmons in the grocery store and wonder what to do with them.  I love food and will try anything twice, even scrapple.  How does one eat a persimmon?

Since wild persimmons are about the size of a medium sized plum, they are mostly seeds.  Each persimmon has maybe 6 seeds about half the size of a penny.  So, the wild versions don't produce a lot of edible per unit ... but the tree ripened ones are oh-so-sweet and refreshing.  

I know when they are beginning to ripen when I start to see the seeds in coyote scat ... they populate the ground under the trees.  As for eating an unripened persimmon, expect to pucker-up because of the astringent they contain (esp. tannic acid).

dd