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Sat, Sep 29, 12 at 1:22
| So I just came back from Grand Cayman and I stumbled upon an ackee. I had no idea what it was so I took a picture of it and showed a girl at the hotel. she said it was an ackee and it is used in the Jamaican national dish, salt codfish. I tried to get more information from her but she didn't know too much about it. I attached the wikipedia article (cuz I'm too lazy to upload one). I had to look at the fruits several times, they looked and felt like plastic fruit, very strange. Anyways the girl at the hotel said that it was not ripe, and that it has to open up before it is ready. Again I tried to get more information and failed. I asked if it was treated like a breadfruit (I think she didn't know what a breadfruit was). The wikipedia article shows both the state I saw and the open ripe version. I didn't notice any aroma around the tree.
Anyone familiar with these and willing to share some insight? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackee |
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| ok, so I asked before looking there are a couple threads on this. Basically they will kill you if you don't do this. And if you don't do that, they will kill you. And, they taste like scrambled eggs. So i would still like to try some someday, but I'll leave the starting an ackee ranch off of the short term agenda. |
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- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Sat, Sep 29, 12 at 21:44
| I got a few trees at home, they were mostly already here when I bought the place. But a few more keep springing up. I suspect birds are moving them about. When I first read up on them years ago I just backed off and never went back to them again. There's a lot of great tropical fruits around without having to flirt with death. |
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| Jamaicans eat them all the time, you can buy them canned in brine and yes to me they taste like scrambles eggs. I guess if I didn't have a ready supply of eggs I'd consider owning an Ackee tree. :-) |
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- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Tue, Oct 2, 12 at 20:14
| I'll stick to eggs as well :O) |
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