I picked a few ilokano eggplants from the "garden", the round white-and-green ones, and my mother said when she was growing up in Bicol, she and her friends thought they weren't edible and treated then like toys. They made dolls out of them.
Things the Pinoy organic gardening YouTubers didn't tell me, part 23: some things that work with one species of pepper are absolutely lethal on another species.