Sweet! Jamaican fruits...

[SandiF]

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Did you know that you can roast and eat the Jackfruit seeds?

Also, I always hear not to eat a certain section of the Jackfruit because it's poisonous. Anybody ever heard of that..?

[mountaingal]

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no, sandi, i haven't heard about a part of the jackfruit being poisonous. i'll look lickle more into that, see what i can find.

you know what jus pass thru my mind? the lickle green tip on top of the etiote apple, that tasted so nice and tangy....

bwoy, what my kids are missing by not growing up in ja...

[tonirand]

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Originally posted by mountaingal:
[qb] arite, who besides ochi, DC and me want jackfruit?



it is the largest fruit to grow on a tree.



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(H)AnnA(H) faint weh


If I have a sleepless night tonight, I will be pleased to blame MG an sandiF

[mountaingal]

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and to think that this "fruit" is a member of the grass family...

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when i lived in Kingston in the late 90s, i used to treat myself to sugar cane couple nights per week...i'd say it was a way to keep my teeth and gums in condition, -- all that chewing of the sugar cane fibre to extract as much juice as possible...then the struggle not to drool all the juice over your chin and chest....aaaahhh, sweet!

i loved to see the cane men in motion, the way they could select just the right one from the bunch of cane in the cart, then quickly strip it and (if you want) cut it up into bite sized pieces. then you had those outfits that would juice cane right there for you... never got into those, cause they never stripped the cane first and i wondered what kind of dirt was getting into the juice.

it's too bad that sugarcane has such a horrible political history...right now in florida you have cane workers living in near slavery conditions on sugarcane plantations.

[mountaingal]

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who was brave enough to eat this particular fruit?



yes, the cashew fruit, the bottom of which grew the cashew nut. i remember that this fruit was so acidic it was almost like sharp knives were attacking your lips and tongue!

and we all knew how harsh the oil of cashew was - we'd cut it in half and press it into our forearm: the oil would burn the shape of the cashew onto our skin. then we'd roast the cashews, they'd be spitting and jumping in the fire, but oh...the smell! then we'd crack them open and eat them.

then days later, our hands would be stripping from handling all that volatile cashew oil from the seed.

here's a pic of cashew fruit on a tree:

[Ochigal]

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Originally posted by mountaingal:
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bwoy, what my kids are missing by not growing up in ja... [/qb]

MG, dat me think bout every DAY! Some how one or two trips a year @ 10-14 days each time just doesnt seem like enough. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[bandido1]

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MG yuh a kill mi man! Mi mout noh stap wata since mi open dis thread!

Cyan yuh fine ennyting bout tinkin toe? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[mountaingal]

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bandi, see Sandi put supm bout tinkin toe pon page 1. no tell me you used to love dat...

[Ochigal]

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mg...you wouldnt beleive the dream I had last night...pure Jamaican fruit in it. I was buying Mangoes that already had bites outa them just cause I had to have them. Tinkin toe inna my bag even.

Then I had to hike up a huge hill to my house with bags and bags of fruit...thankfully that part was dream, but sure wish the rest was real. Well except for the half eaten mangoes

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[bandido1]

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Originally posted by mountaingal:
[qb] bandi, see Sandi put supm bout tinkin toe pon page 1. no tell me you used to love dat... [/qb]

Mi try ie wan time wen mi was a likkle bway, den mi here seh if ie choke yuh, yuh haffe eat parch dog doo-doo! Dat was de laas time it tuch mi lips! Ugh!!

[mountaingal]

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Originally posted by Ochigal:
[qb] mg...you wouldnt beleive the dream I had last night...pure Jamaican fruit in it. I was buying Mangoes that already had bites outa them just cause I had to have them. Tinkin toe inna my bag even.

Then I had to hike up a huge hill to my house with bags and bags of fruit...thankfully that part was dream, but sure wish the rest was real. Well except for the half eaten mangoes

[img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [/qb]

lol! Ochi, glad seh a no me one weh get obsessed wid J'can fruits.

den lass night me ponder and me ponder about de mango question...how fe fine pics of the diffrent varieties when what we call dem in Jamaica is not what other people call them elsewhere...

still pondering...

julie, number eleven, greenskin, hairy, east indian, haden, bombay...

[Simmy]

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DWL@bandi. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Otaheiti apples...(we called them Ethiopian apples.) *sigh* I remember living in Richmond, St. Mary and would walk the tracks to go to town, workers along the tracks would cook around the base of that particular tree and every time I passed there, they'd get some of the apples for me to eat. I sure miss those days!

Last time I went to JA, they were out of season and I couldn't get any at all. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[SandiF]

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If a laugh a ded @ bandido.

Mi used to eat it bredda. It did have a sweet sticky cloying taste, and di scent did really cling pon yu. Actually mi did always find the scent cloyingly sweet more than stink.

Surprised when the fruit facts state that it has medicinal purposes.

Originally posted by bandido1:
[qb] Mi try ie wan time wen mi was a likkle bway, den mi here seh if ie choke yuh, yuh haffe eat parch dog doo-doo! Dat was de laas time it tuch mi lips! Ugh!! [/qb]

[tonirand]

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Hello again oonoo

From laas nite a pure fruit deh pon mi mind [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Mi memba a likkl eone name cherry-meela. Mi fren from Sav use to call it Jimbelin.

Gats anyting on dat please?

Tanky

[H_O]

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can you guess this mango? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
its a haden..