Gobertow's Basket Crawl
Broad leafy trees speckle the Tradestowns and a large portion of the savanna westward of the region. These sturdy planters bear a spiny-skinned stone fruit known as a gober. The city of Gobertow prides itself on this common delicacy, so much so that it hosts annual competitions for collecting them. What started as a village tradition became the single most important event of a now tenfold collective of farmers, tradesmen, and culinarians . Garnering a great many visitors for two weeks of the year, the Basket Crawl begins once all participants are gathered in the market square and given a white flag to showcase their participation in the event. Hundreds are sent off to find wild gobers and return them for a premium price. Outside of this event gobers are so plentiful they sell for as little as two copper a piece.
What makes gobers so desirable is their fatty nutritional content. Being about the size of a coconut, the flesh of this fruit bears a semi-opaque milky quality that if sliced thinly enough is near translucent. The flesh of one gober can be ground with one ounce of cooking oil and some salt to make eight to ten ounces of kulfe--a preserved spread that is staple to many laborer's diets throughout Kupridop. In addition to this most common method of preparation the fruit may be roasted as a side dish, baked into pastries, or simply eaten raw.
Aside from wild collection the city runs a slew of gober plantations that bar public access during the event. While many folk know that the seeds of a wild gober are red and a farmed gober are yellow (due to deliberate differences in the soil's nutrients), that doesn't stop some ruffians from trying to make off with foul play. Because of this it has become common practice for market stalls to sheer fruit for festival attendees and return the seeds, which are treated as silver pieces for all purposes during the celebration. If a partaker of the event is caught trying to barter a yellow-seeded prize their first discipline is public humiliation by wearing a spent skin as a cap until it rots.
What makes gobers so desirable is their fatty nutritional content. Being about the size of a coconut, the flesh of this fruit bears a semi-opaque milky quality that if sliced thinly enough is near translucent. The flesh of one gober can be ground with one ounce of cooking oil and some salt to make eight to ten ounces of kulfe--a preserved spread that is staple to many laborer's diets throughout Kupridop. In addition to this most common method of preparation the fruit may be roasted as a side dish, baked into pastries, or simply eaten raw.
Aside from wild collection the city runs a slew of gober plantations that bar public access during the event. While many folk know that the seeds of a wild gober are red and a farmed gober are yellow (due to deliberate differences in the soil's nutrients), that doesn't stop some ruffians from trying to make off with foul play. Because of this it has become common practice for market stalls to sheer fruit for festival attendees and return the seeds, which are treated as silver pieces for all purposes during the celebration. If a partaker of the event is caught trying to barter a yellow-seeded prize their first discipline is public humiliation by wearing a spent skin as a cap until it rots.
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