My ancestral home is Mangalore, so I've been there qutie often. The jackrfuit is my favorite fruit! Once you rip it open, removing the compartments is relatively easy. The seed is easier to remove. It's one of those fruits that is incredibly sweet, tasty, and you can eat A LOT of it. It can be a meal by itself and you won't feel sick of eating it.
Jackfruit could save millions from starvation
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#102My ancestral home is Mangalore, so I've been there qutie often. The jackrfuit is my favorite fruit! Once you rip it open, removing the compartments is relatively easy. The seed is easier to remove. It's one of those fruits that is incredibly sweet, tasty, and you can eat A LOT of it. It can be a meal by itself and you won't feel sick of eating it.
enchina saav maraya
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "Not popular in India? News to me." Yeah, you could find them everywhere in Karnataka and most of the states I went to in the South.
I think western writers have a silly perspective on India. It's more diverse than the European Union, really! How can one say anything at all about all of India at once?
As a westerner it's frustrating to me that my compatriots can't turn their statements around and see how it feels. If I said "okra is very popular in the U.S." Or heck even pineapple. I'd be half right and half wrong.
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#104Visiting Grandparents' in summer where magically a huge Jackfruit appears for the kids to get their oil-soaked hands dirty, and pluck the bulbs from the innards, and douse them with Ghee (Clarified butter) and eat dozens of them till your stomach hurts is a passage of rite for many kids in Southern India (atleast in the 80s). And add to scorching summer heat by toasting the seeds in open fire and peel the skin of the seeds and eat even more of it, makes me long for the fruit (and the innocence).
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#105Not popular in India? News to me. Maybe not all over India. But in Kerala, the state I am from, Jackfruit is pretty popular there and is used to make a wide variety of dishes. My grandparents house has many jackfruit trees and we always had jackfruit to eat. It tastes nothing like pulled pork to me though. It's mainly sweet and very slightly tangy/sour. Fresh jackfruit has a kind of "crunch" to it. I can't really des…
It was surprising. Jackfruit is available even in a city like Delhi. I fondly remember feasting on sweet jackfruit at my grandparents place when I was younger. I would say it is a popular native fruit. I am skeptical about the 75 % wastage mentioned. That cannot be true.
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#106There are three very similar fruits I've met so far: - Durian (looks similar to Jackfruit, a little rounder, and spikier), which is very popular in Malaysia and Singapore, and has a very strong smell. It has a more creamy consistency, and tastes quite different from jackfruit. People say, it's an acquired taste. Some love it, some hate it with passion. - Jackfruit, I got to know this first in Viet Nam, but it can als…
Jackfruit is widely eaten in Asia. It's delicious and ... yeah, it's a fucking fruit, so it could technically feed hungry people.
For the record, it doesn't take like pulled pork... in any respect whatsoever...
Durian - good luck getting anyone to eat the bloody thing. I love it, but it's an acquired taste.
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#107I am from Kerala, the southern state of India where Jack fruit is grown in abundance. Traditionally Jack fruit tree haven't got the status of Apple, Orange.. Now with reports in media saying that Apple, Orange etc available in our part is made with the excessive help of pesticides, people began looking at jackfruit since it can be grown without using pesticides or fertilizers. Now some startups has moved into commercial production of jackfruit products like http://www.jackfruit365.com/about_us.html
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#108Ohh my goodness. This tastes better than a mango when gets ripen.
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#109I am from the Kerala state in India where this fruit is in abundance. My home has 2 of those big trees. About the pulled pork reference , I have had pulled pork in Arizona Phoenix where I work now. The unripe jackfruit do not taste like that. Just an "unripe" taste that's all. Unripe fruit has lot of milky sticky liquid oozing from the hives inside the fruit. In its unripe form , its used for frying , something like…
Here in Europe jackfruit is sold as a vegetarian alternative to pulled pork in all food trucks. I haven't tried it but I've heard it's very similar.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair enough. I realise that the Indian states are very different, much like different EU countries. I don't think the EU has quite as many languages (and dialects) as that, though there are more than many people think. Have a quick look at the list here, for example: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/saoghal/mion-chanain/en/ Many that previously existed have died out, of course. And as TV and radio became more prevelant, it d…
> Do you see the same thing happening in India, or are they managing to preserve local tradition alongside the mainstream? It is complex! Some dialects are dying out, but the regions seem to be clustering around the 22 'scheduled languages'. In Karnataka (population ~ 60 million) for example, there are at least 4 dialects of Kannada. With the proliferation of social media, TV, and cinema, two things are happening: (1…
> But the masses never 'spoke' Sanskrit, it was more of a formalized language for literature and administration.
That's a strange thing to say. Panini formalized it, but the language was in widespread use for a long time before that, quite like Latin and classical Greek were. Why else would people start using it for literature and administration? Of course, using it for these two purposes gave it a certain degree of prestige and made the language live on long after it was spoken by the masses.