How do you?

Eat a kumquat? I just bought some with my dad at the store but we have no freakin idea how to eat them! ;) Please don't answer unless you really know!

How do you?
What we used to do is roll/squeeze the kumquat in our fingers before eating. The rolling/sqeezing releases the oils in the skin and helps sweeten it up a little.





Yes, you eat everything, skin and all.





It still has a slight sourness to them, but not bad when ripe.





Edit... from wikipedia to show that I ain't daft and off my rocker.





Uses


Kumquats are frequently eaten raw. As the rind is sweet and the juicy center is sour, the raw fruit is usually consumed either whole, to savour the contrast, or only the rind is eaten. The fruit is considered ripe when it reaches a yellowish-orange stage, and has just shed the last tint of green. The Hong Kong Kumquat has a rather sweet rind compared to the rinds of other citrus fruits.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat
Reply:two ways,





1) preferably whole. eat the entire thing.





2) or if the inside is too sour for you, and it is very sour (like a lemon) inside, then you can just nibble off the skin.
Reply:You eat the whole thing. As a child my parents had a tree and I loved sour things so I would peel them and eat just the insides. It wasn't until I was older that I learned to eat the entire fruit. It's a sweet and sour contrast. Good stuff.