Comments on Profile Post by Thad E Ginathom

Quite a big strawberry only an average water melon personal record for the latter north of 15 kg, on the other hand in India you are probably able to get ripe fruit here in Europe you often get fruit which is not ripe and which starts to rot before ever ripening, so much for progress

Jackfruit? Watermelon?

Strawberry! Wow, there's a thought! I'd need a huge amount of Cornish clotted cream for a 15kg strawberry, yum yum.

This IS a jackfruit. Quite a modest-sized jackfruit

http://tinypic.com/m/k21bf6/3

Since I'm unexperienced with jackfruit, how do you eat it, or prepare it? Interested because I'm in a family of pescatarians.

I've had some packaged barbeque jackfruit from the store which attempts to mimic shredded beef or pork. But it wasn't entirely successful IMO.

It is lots of what you might call softish seed pods inside. They are the edible bit. Geting them out is the hard-work bit. Cut into the fruit today, as it was getting brown spots already. Not that sweat raw, but utterly delicious deep-fried. Ate 15 pieces for dinner :)

The seeds are a bit like butter beans. They can make a nice dish too. I've always meant to video cutting the thing, and today I did. Don't know if it is youtube-able. But there is plenty already there. Look for such videos made in Kerala*. They have so much jackfruit there, you'd think it,... ahem... grows on trees!
*You don't need to understand the language, just watch!