Makrut Lime Review - Weird Fruit Explorer : Episode 12 

Do the leaves taste any different from those of other citrus>

Yes, the leaves tastes different than other citrus..

I highly highly recommend them in Thai Tom Kha soup, it's delicious

Make it into syrup too, it's good

Green skittle?

malezyali79 Why not eat the fruit? Is it posits l poisonous,

@@MaxOakland no poison... Just too sour... For bath, shampoo, etc. The rind is grated for soup, etc.

NOT BERGAMOT

Florida?

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It would be good that way, if you can get past the slight soapy taste

Would key limes be weird enough to do? I live in Australia where key limes are not normally available. I'm curious about how they compare to the more common Tahitian/ Persian lime.

+B9mac Now that is interesting. I managed to find a store that sells these here in NYC, I'll try adding some to hot chocolate some time :)

Well I'm not sure if you'll get the same effect. The rind is usually ground with the dried cocoa beans the rolled into balls. Those balls are used to make the hot chocolate. Its really rich and aromatic!

Bergamot in English, its flowers make up the main flavour of earl grey tea. Interesting that it is used in hot chocolate.

Not bergamot. They look the same, but bergamot is citrus bergamia while kaffir lime is citrus hystrix. Bergamot is actually more of an orange than a lime, in spite of its apperance.

Very sour. Next...

Really? Why is it derogatory? I may have too change my title :). I agree, it is quite good in moderation, but would certainly rather the leaves.

It's a term from South Africa, equivalent to the n-word in English. Here's a quote from wikipedia: "The Oxford Companion to Food (ISBN 0-19-211579-0) recommends that the name kaffir lime be avoided in favor of makrut lime because Kaffir is an offensive term in some cultures and has no clear reason for being attached to this plant."

Thanks Karen! I didn't know that.

I had heard it is Arabic for non Muslim. Because it was from countries without any. Good to see languages can evolve to be more compassionate.

And the juice is used as a condiment and ingredient in food in Sulawesi 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kaffir lime is not bergamot. Essential oil peddlers like to use pictures of kaffir lime when selling bergamot oil because it looks more interesting. But its nothing like it. This is bergamot: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t1UcdiYtOtg.html

Nah thats the soapberry lol check out that review.

weird! Maybe because I have reviewed it also: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t1UcdiYtOtg.html

@@WeirdExplorer i know, i watched it plenty of times and i notice a difference between those, for example go to fragantica search at the notes category for bergamot and kaffir lime and its the same

@@WeirdExplorer here are the links Bergamot: www.fragrantica.com/notes/Bergamot-75.html Kaffir lime : www.fragrantica.com/notes/Kaffir-Lime-958.html

+Going Natural heh, there's a reason why its sold at flower markets I guess.

Its a common name for it and its origin might not even be related to any slur. Its like how the word black itself are used to refer to a lot of things and all are unrelated to each other aside than colour. Just like how the cocktail Negroni are unrelated to African, since it come from the name of a French general, Comte de Negroni.

@@13gan The word k@ffir also means "infidel" in Arabic afaik. Unlike the negroni, which is named after a person, I wonder why people chose a word with overall negative connotations to give to this fruit.

@@valentinewiggin7782 Yes, unbeliever is infidel, though the use of the word kaffir have more depth than that and its nuance vary from country to country. In most Muslims countries, the nuance vary as to call another Muslims kaffir either mean that he's not a true believer (as in unothordox/heresy) implying they should be killed (per Sharia law,) to a kind of joke in the same vein as Darth Vader's "You lack of faith is disturbing". Used against non-muslim (or in the Sunni vs Shia context), its basically a label to say that they are not a member of the "one true faith" and sometimes is used to exclude and belittle them as the word kaffir is also related to jahil i.e uncivilised, coming from the the Islamic stories of the Jahiliah era of Arabian peninsula. That and as a label for enemy of the faith, which is why you see Iran labeling USA as a kaffir country. This is why the name kaffir lime is not really as serious as you would thought as its use is pretty much like using the word heretics. You can use it as a joke among friends or you can also use it while burning them on a pyre. On "bad words" scales, it range between 2 to 6 in a scale of 10 because even when used as a racial epitaph, unless the context is fully in open hostility, its not exactly "bad". Its like hearing someone saying "My nigga" without trying to guess the speaker's race, if you get what I mean. One of the theories i heard on the name of Kaffir lime was that when it was imported to Arab countries, they were called kaffir lime due to it coming from kaffir (as in non-muslim) countries. In this context, its not really bad as its name basically mean "foreign lime".

Oh brother!!! 🤣😂🤣🤦🏽‍♀️

Because loanwords don't always mean the same thing in the original language as in the language they are loaned to. The reason kaffir is a slur in South Africa is because of the habit of Arabic slave traders to refer to the slaves they traded as such and this word being adopted by the buyers, who didn't know what the word really meant. So in Arabic, the world is far more benign and gets assigned to other things, including this foreign-to-Arabia lime and the Arabs introduce it to the rest of the world as a kaffir lime, not caring that their word was corrupted in South Africa. Personally, I find it offensive to try to tell Arabs that they can't use their words anymore because they were corrupted by a small group of white South Africans.

Most people aren't offended by this, you seem to be the exeption.

@@jannikheidemann3805 kaffir is a racist slur in South Africa 🇿🇦

@@makubegysman6160 neither he is from Africa nor is the fruit from Africa... you ever hear the word for "um" in mandarin?