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AckeeEater

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Hello everyone. I'm originally from Jamaica but now live in South Florida, USA.

Poking around I get the impression this is a friendly place so I decided to invite misself. Not a big fiction reader at all, though I may make time in future for that.

I'll now look around for the appropriate thread to post my main reason for coming. Thanks.

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Again, thanks for all the welcome; you guys are too nice. Now soon I'll have to look above for the even newer posters to welcome aboard, right? :)

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He! He! He! You're right, Poppy1, I've been doing my due, have you noticed?

Occlith, good on you. Ackee is a weird but wonderful fruit. Before it matures and pops its seams it's quite toxic; after opening it's cooked down with salted fish (cod, haddock, mackerel, etc.) to become just the most palatable dish, taken over rice, yam (a tuber of many varieties, not sweet potato!), boiled green banana, or even white bread. Indeed, with codfish it is Jamaica's national dish.

The prepared product looks like this; it looks somewhat like scrambled eggs, but if you ever have some, please resist the temptation to say it tastes like scrambled eggs too; I've seen Internet pages claiming so-- not true at all.

For some reason it was only brought to Jamaica (from West Africa during slavery times); any other island or country to possess it is as the result of Jamaicans having moved there, e.g., Costa Rica and South Florida.

--Æ.
 
AckeeEater said:
He! He! He! You're right, Poppy1, I've been doing my due, have you noticed?

Occlith, good on you. Ackee is a weird but wonderful fruit. Before it matures and pops its seams it's quite toxic; after opening it's cooked down with salted fish (cod, haddock, mackerel, etc.) to become just the most palatable dish, taken over rice, yam (a tuber of many varieties, not sweet potato!), boiled green banana, or even white bread. Indeed, with codfish it is Jamaica's national dish.

The prepared product looks like this; it looks somewhat like scrambled eggs, but if you ever have some, please resist the temptation to say it tastes like scrambled eggs too; I've seen Internet pages claiming so-- not true at all.

For some reason it was only brought to Jamaica (from West Africa during slavery times); any other island or country to possess it is as the result of Jamaicans having moved there, e.g., Costa Rica and South Florida.

--Æ.
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That looks and sounds yummy. My Grandfather, although British, was born and spent his early childhood in Trinidad. I know it's not that close to Jamaica but are there many similarities? I always remember him saying that we had no idea what a tree-ripened banana tasted like as we always get them green in NZ and then let them ripen up.
 
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