Wine mixed with Water

In Greece there is a fruit called Pantisa that grows on trees everywhere. It is greens spongy material that looks as if it is wrinkled green skin. On the inside is a sweet fruit which can be found after peeling away the skin like an orange. But before you eat the fruit itself there is a layer of fuzz that you MUST take off before eating, or else it is poisonous. After eating the full fruit, a seed will be in the middle and you can replant it under a tree for good luck.

This fruit has been around in Greece since the building of the Acropolis. The people used to use the skin as coloring for their paintings and pottery. The poisonous fuzz around the actual fruit was used as a liquid that killed off dangerous animals and other people. Finally, the fruit on the inside was seen as sacred and cooked in almost everyone dish imaginable. After a feast, they would plant the seeds and pray to the gods to help the tree of Pantisa flourish.

Today Pantisa can be found all over the streets of Athens for anyone to pick and eat PROPERLY. BUT there is always a caution, DO NOT EAT THE FUZZY PART or else..

"If it is well told and to the point, that is what I myself desired; if it is poorly done and mediocre, that was the best I could do. For just as it is harmful to drink wine alone, or, again, to drink water alone, while wine mixed with water is sweet and delicious and enhances one's enjoyment, so also the style of the story delights the ears of those who read the work. And here will be the end." 2 Maccabees 15: 38-39


S'agapo, 
Alex