When you buy some cucumber, do you prefer to eat it fresh or dried out... If you are so lucky as to locate some yotes (hopefully not wild..) harvest and consume fresh to get the full experience out of it. That would be my advice. Eat them when their spirit is STRONG and VIRILE. Watch.. Listen.. And Learn. Grandfather has MUCH to teach..
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Just out of curiosity.. how much were these little beauties you saw in the shop?