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"The wild hubba gourd is our primary food. Without it, we'd perish."
―Sharad Hett, to Ki-Adi-Mundi[5]

The hubba gourd was a type of melon that grew in rock recesses on the planet of Tatooine. Although its juice was sour and difficult to digest for Humans, the hubba gourd was the main staple foodstuff of the Jawas and the Tusken Raiders, the two sentient species native to Tatooine. The name was a translation from a Jawaese phrase: "the staff of life."

Description[]

"For example, I found this reflecting crystal on the floor, of the type that grows on the husks of hubba gourds..."
―Ben Kenobi, to Ponnar[8]

Hubba gourds were tough-skinned melons[2] that grew in the shadows of the cliffs on Tatooine. They could be round[3] or elongated.[1] The fruits were normally covered with tiny, reflective crystals that protected them from excessive solar exposure.[2] The gourd's interior was filled with tough, stringy fibers that contained a sour fluid.[3] During their growing season, hubba gourds were colored green,[8] and they would eventually take a yellowish hue.[3] When ripe, the fruits also exhaled a distinctive smell.[9] The seeds of the hubba gourd were pale and transparent.[10]

Unripe hubbas

Ben Kenobi manipulating unripe hubba gourds

The hubba gourd was prime food for Tusken Raiders and Jawas; the latter species found it particularly delicious when roasted.[11] The word hubba itself was Jawaese for "the staff of life," indicating how important it was to that species' survival,[12] and their efficient digestive systems drew all the nutrients they needed from it.[13] Despite often finding the gourd hard to digest and bitter, other species could also consume it, including Humans,[1] Geranites, and Askajians.[3] Hubba juice,[7] hubba bread,[5] and hubba chips could be made from hubba gourds.[6]

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"You stole the hubba gourds, hoping the Tusken Raiders and the Jawas would fight over them!"
―Ben Kenobi, to Ponnar[8]
Hubba gourd Jawas Tusken Raiders

Unripe hubba gourds being thrown at hungry Jawas and Tusken Raiders

Momaw Nadon, an Ithorian resident of Tatooine, was at one time working on a hybrid hubba gourd.[10]

Wimateeka, a Jawa leader of the Nkik clan, once contracted a number of hunters to eliminate wild animals that were attacking his clan's supply of hubba gourds.[14]

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Notes and references[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Official Star Wars Fact File 63 (JAW6, Jawas)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Junior Jedi Knights: Promises
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Skin Deep: The Fat Dancer's Tale" — Tales from Jabba's Palace
  4. ↑ Tatooine Ghost
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Star Wars (1998) 11
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "War on the Jundland Wastes" — Star Wars Comic 1
  9. ↑ Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "The Sand Tender: The Hammerhead's Tale" — Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
  11. ↑ "Swap Meet: The Jawa's Tale" — Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
  12. ↑ The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
  13. ↑ Databank title Jawa in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
  14. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided — Terminal Mission: "Hubba Gourd Raiders" on Tatooine
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