Had a fun and surprising pawpaw fanatic experience yesterday. Was driving from Philly to Boston and learned via r/pawpaws that robsons’s farm had u-pick. Unfortunately they were closed yesterday, but I emailed and the owner put some extra pawpaws in a paper bag for me and hid them on site so I could pick them up. she said they had mostly peterson cultivars but was just giving me what had been picked.
but when I got home and grabbed out one —green with brown splotches, giving to the touch like a ripe avocado — it was white inside, with a completely different texture and flavor than the one I tried from [foraged.com]that was more yellow and intense. it was spoon scoopable, but barely; had to use a knife to get some of the pulp closer to the rind; the flavor was mild and sweet vanilla/marshmallow, with no aftertaste. plus, it seemed like the seeds had barely any sack if any, and only about 5 seeds.
by comparison the foraged.com one, which seemed similarly ripe by color and feel, was egg yolk yellow, very soft, and had an intense flavor ( I couldn’t take more than a few spoonfuls of it) like melon with artificial banana and a bit of an alcohol-ey aftertaste, and about 12 seeds.
did I just get an underripe one from robsons? Or a freestone / white flesh cultivar? This is only my second pawpaw. i could try to get some picture screencaps out of the videos i took.