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Grape balls of fire

It's not easy to eat a muscadine.

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Lisa Davis
Sep 05, 2025
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My husband went out to see a man about a house and came back with a plastic grocery bag full of muscadines, because, well, these things happen in the summer in Alabama.

Muscadines, for those unfamiliar with the fruit, are barely domesticated grapes, with tough, rubbery skins and unpleasant, spiky little seeds. They’re native to the Southeastern U.S. — al…

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