Apricots Nothing specific quoted

"I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 45 ~¤~

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Berries Nothing specific quoted

"I felt the pull of a strap on my throat, and opened my eyes. By a long leather strap, some ten feet in length, I was fastened by the neck to Ute. We were picking berries." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 208 ~¤~ "A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening, is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported. At the oasis, will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onion tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 ~¤~ "... there being few sweet items, save some berries, in the north." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 206 ~¤~

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Cherries Nothing specific quoted

" 'It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros,' I said." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 349 ~¤~

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Chokecherries

"Crushed fruit, usually chokecherries, is then added to the meat. The whole, then, is mixed with, and fixed by, kailiauk fat, subsequently, usually, being divided into small, flattish, rounded cakes. The fruit sugars make this, in its way, a quick energy food, while the meat, of course, supplies valuable, long lasting stamina protein." Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 46

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Dates From the city of Tor and grown in the Oasis of the Tahari

"...dates from the city of Tor." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 42 ~¤~ "The principal export of the oasis (Tahari) are dates, or pressed-date bricks. Some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet high. It takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit. They will then yield fruit for more than a century. A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 ~¤~ "A veiled woman was hawking dates by the tefa." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 46 ~¤~ "We then, from the tray, feeding ourselves, taking dates, and slices of larma and pastries, breakfasted and chatted." Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 295 ~¤~

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Kalana No specific description is quoted about the fruit itself, just that it makes a red wine and comes from yellow trees.

"Lastly, as the culmination of Ar’s Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar’s family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red, winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. The member of the Ubar’s family then prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at which point the Guars of the Home Stone resume their vigil." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 68 "Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor;..." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 217 ~¤~ "The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance..." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 250 ~¤~

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Larma Two types of larma: One is a single seeded fruit, rather like an apple (can be referred to as pit fruit) The other is a segmented juicy larma that can be served fried with a browned-honey sauce.

"He then picked up a juicy, red larma fruit, biting into it with a sound that seemed partly squishing as he bit into the fleshy, segmented endocarp. He seemed to make a great deal of noise. Although one or two of the girls stirred uneasily, none, to my relief, awakened. Harold was now fishing about, still chewing on the fruit,... " Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 220 ~¤~ - Tarl Cabot orders breakfast - " 'And put bread over the fire,' I said., 'and honey, and the eggs of vulos, and fried tarsk meat and a Torain larma fruit." Book 5, Assasin of Gor, page 107 ~¤~ "The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 219 "On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon occasion to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood. I shall mention two such devices. There is, first, the bondage knot. The bondage knot is a simple looped knot tied into the girl's hair and worn at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. The girl approaches the master naked and kneels, the bondage knot soft, curled, fallen at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to kneel before the master and put her head down and lift her arms, offering him fruit, usually a larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh. These devices, incidentally, may be used even by a slave girl who hates her master but whose body, trained to love, cannot endure the absence of the masculine caress." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 27 - 28 ~¤~ "Larma and tospit are also grown at the oases, in small orchards." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 ~¤~ "I had returned late to the compartment. Miss Blake_Allen, head to the floor, knelt when I entered. In the dates I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; ..." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 ~¤~ " 'Another bit of larma, Master?' asked the slave, kneeling behind me and to my left. I turned and, from where I sat cross-legged behind the low table, removed a small, crisp disk of fried larma, with a browned-honey sauce, from the silver tray." Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 231 ~¤~ "We then, from the tray, feeding ourselves, taking dates, and slices of larma and pastries, breakfasted and chatted." Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 295 ~¤~ "He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum." Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 216 "I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This is a firm, single-seeded, applelike fruit. It is quite unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, and perhaps more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone." Book 20, Players of Gor, page 267 "The larma is luscious. It has a rather hard shell but the shell is brittle and easily broken. Within, the fleshy endocarp, the fruit, is delicious and very juicy. Sometimes, when a woman is referred to as a `larma,' it is suggested that her hard or frigid exterior conceals a rather different sort of interior, one likely to be quite delicious." Book 23, Renegades of Gor, page 437

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Melons Though it is quoted that there are many varieties, nothing specific is named. No quote available for "Celene Melon".

"A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening, is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported....various sorts of melons,...." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 ~¤~ "I made my way carefully through the crowds. The vendors come early to the market, leaving their villages outside of Tor in the morning darkness, that they may find a yard of pavement, preferably near the market gate, to display their wares. I was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums. Not even looking up, a woman had cried out, and, with a stick lashed out, protecting her merchandise. 'Buy mellons!' called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 45 ~¤~

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Nuts Nothing specific quoted

"...vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 ~¤~

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Olives Olives form the city of Tor are Torian Olives. Red Olives come from Tyros.

"The Tarn Keeper...brought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 168 ~¤~ "Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr and a sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114

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Peaches Nothing specific quoted

"Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to kneel before the master and put her head down and lift her arms, offering him fruit, usually a larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh. These devices, incidentally, may be used even by a slave girl who hates her master but whose body, trained to love, cannot endure the absence of the masculine caress." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 27 - 28 ~¤~

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Plums Nothing specific quoted

"... I was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums. Not even looking up, a woman had cried out, and, with a stick lashed out, protecting her merchandise...." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 45 ~¤~ "He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum." Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 216

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Raisins Nothing specific quoted

"... I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey;..." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 ~¤~ "He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum." Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 216

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Ram-berries A small reddish fruit with edible seeds.

"A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike plums save for the many small seeds." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 305 ~¤~

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Ta-grapes Purple grapes from the island of Cos. It is used to make ta-wine, a thick and sweet supposedly white wine.

"The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards of the terraced island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar. ... If they were indeed Ta grapes I supposed they must have come by galley from Cos to Port Kar, and from Port Kar to the Fair of En'Kara. Port Kar and Cos are hereditary enemies, but such traditions would bot be likely to preclude some profitable smuggling. But perhaps they were not Ta grapes for Cos was far distant, and even if carried by tarns, the grapes would probably not seem so fresh." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45 ~¤~ "I was astonished, for this girl was dressed not as a Gorean, not as a girl of any of the cities of the Counter-Earth, not as a peasant of the Sa-Tarna fields or the vineyards where the Ta grapes are raised, not even as a girl of the fierce Wagon Peoples." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 35 ~¤~ "There was a flash of slave bells at my side and a darkhaired, yellow-silked girl, a paga girl, knelt beside us, where we sat cross-legged behind the small table. 'Paga, Masters?' 'For three,' said I, expansively. 'And bring bread and bosk, and grapes.' 'Yes, Master.' " Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 46 ~¤~ "and others, from goblets, gave us of wines, Turian wines, thick and sweet, Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos..." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 213 ~¤~ "I retrieved a grape about the size of a small plum from the table before it could be cleared away. It was peeled and pitted, doubtless laboriously by female slaves. It was a Ta-Grape." Book 20, Players of Gor, page 291

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Tospits A bitter, yellowish-white, peachlike fruit about the size of a plum. It grows on bushes. Used to make wagers on odd or even seeds as well.

"I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are bitter but edible. " Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 59 ~¤~ "He looked at me shrewdly and, to my surprise, drew a tospit out of his pouch, that yellowish-white, bitter fruit, looking something like a peach, but about the size of a plum." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 149 ~¤~ " 'Odd or even?' he asked. I had resolved not to wager with Kamchak, but this was indeed an opportunity to gain a certain amount of vengeance which, on my part, would be sorely appreciated. Usually, in guessing tospit seeds, one guesses the actual number, and usually both guessers opt for an odd number. The common tospit almost invariable has an odd number of seeds. On the other hand the rare, long-stemmed tospit usually has an even number of seeds. Both fruits are indistinguishable outwardly. I could see that, perhaps by accident, the tospit which Kamchak had thrown me had had the stem twisted off. It must be then, I surmised, the rare long stemmed-tospit. 'Even,' I said. Kamchak looked at me as though pained. 'Tospits almost always have an odd number of seeds,' he said. 'Even,' I said. 'Very well,' said he, 'eat the tospti and see.' 'Why should I eat it?' I asked. The tospit, after all, is quite bitter. And why should't Kamchak eat it? He had suggested the wager. 'I am a Tuchuk,' said Kamchak, 'I might be tempted to swallow seeds.' 'Lets cut it up.' I proposed. 'One might miss a seed that way,' said Kamchak. 'Perhaps we could mash the slices.' I suggested. 'But would that not be a great deal of trouble,:' asked Kamchak, 'and might one not stain the rug?' 'Perhaps we could mash them in a bowl,' I suggested. 'But then a bowl would have to be washed,' said Kamchak. 'That is true.' I admitted. 'All things considered,' said Kamchak, 'I think the fruit should be eaten.' 'I guess you are right,' I said. I bit into the fuit philosophically. It was indeed bitter. 'Besides,' said Kamchak, 'I do not much care for tospits,' 'I am not surprised,' I said. 'They are quite bitter,' said Kamchak. 'Yes,' I said. I finished the fruit and, of course, it had seven seeds. 'Most tospit,' Kamchak informed me, 'have an odd number of seeds.' 'I know,' I said. 'Then why did you guess even?' he asked. 'I supposed,' I grumbled, 'that you would have found a long-stemmed tospit.' 'But they are not available,' he said, 'until late in the summer.' 'Oh,' I said. " Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 149 - 150 ~¤~ "She had been carrying tospits and vegetables to the deck locker, to fill it." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 289 "Larma and tospit are also grown at the oases, in small orchards." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 ~¤~ "A boy passed, spitting out the seeds of a tospit. The thought of Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, passed through my mind. I smiled. Only the rare, long stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds, on the Plains of Turia, or in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, it was available only late in the summer. Here, in Tor, however, with its two growing seasons, they might be available much earlier. Still, if pressed, I would have guessed that the boy's tospit contained an odd number of seeds. Most tospits do. I would not, however, have been likely to wager on the matter with Kamchak of the Tuchuks. I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that people of the Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes and smells. Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tahari districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, pages 45 - 46 ~¤~ "Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us our desert, slices of topsit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars." Book 15, Rogue of Gor, page 132

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