Fruits of T&T

[frico]

After reading about sapodilla in the Express this morning ah feel that it must be the tastiest fruit in the world,if there is a nicer tasting fruit I would like to know,on a different topic what about pone,isn't that the greatest sweet in TT,well I think so.

[Quags]

nah there is one thing sweeter in trini only one .not sure is a fruit doh so you might be right ,

[Deeks]

I'll put caimite, pommerac there too.

[frico]

Please dont talk bout Caimate and Pommerac,sometimes ah try to explain the fruits we have in TT,people not from TT will never understand.What about Balata,sometimes people tell me about fruits that I never saw.

[Tallman]

Sugar Apple / Sweetsop


Custard Apple

[100% Barataria]

2 Sapodilla and bannana

[Deeks]

Sour sop. A ripe one that a bird just pick.

[Preacher]

Sugar Apple / Sweetsop


Custard Apple

DANG!!!!!!!!!!   I'll spend money for that right now.  Sweet to bad.

[Peong]

As a boy I used to eat so much fruit.  Now is only meat and potatoes.
Sapodilla, balata and sugar apple are the sweetest fruits I ever tasted.
I remember being vex the balata were so small. My brothers and I used to raid a big caimete tree by a church.
We also had a big pomerac tree, I used to climb it and eat my belly full.
And pommecythere chow ah boy

[FireBrand]

BALATA 

Daz de sweetest right dey!    Big up de caimate and sapodilla too. De closest ting they have to dem fruits here in the US is a persimmon. Dat too does get lash mercilessly!


Anybody ever hear about a fruit called primrose? It has a distinctive smell and looks like a green pomerac. Daz one that left an indelible impression on my taste buds as ah chile.

[Bitter]

But then it have fruit we used to eat and now I doh know why, like downs or sour cherry.
Why we used to eat that eh? downs tying up yuh mout and sour cherry have yuh squinging yuh face. But I think the worse for me was Cashew. When yuh done yuh throat raw.

[Deeks]

Balata was always a rare fruit, and yes it sweet too. The thing about balata's rarity was that it was the wood of choice for furniture making. It is a red wood if I remembered and it is very hard. Something like oak. it was kinder of termite resistant, probably from it composition. But the drawback was the carpenter have to use dusk mask when sanding. Bad for the lungs. One of the few fruits that kept it Spanish name, like sapodilla.

[frico]

Just before we came to England ah was bout 11,ah use to go to the Sando Cemetry near the Market and pelt dong balata,one day as ah pelt dong one, a big boy went an take it away from me,he was about 15 and much bigger but ah struggle wid him and got it back,he didn't like that and he punch meh in meh eye.That day ah went home wid a black eye and a tell meh parents ah bounce meh head on a tree,ah never forget Balata and that boy Braithwaith who hit meh.I was no angel even at that age.

[Tallman]

But then it have fruit we used to eat and now I doh know why, like downs or sour cherry.
Why we used to eat that eh? downs tying up yuh mout and sour cherry have yuh squinging yuh face. But I think the worse for me was Cashew. When yuh done yuh throat raw.

Nah man, dongs nice. Depends on de stage of ripeness. Plus it have different kinds like snatty nose and toetee



Sour cherry does go good wit salt and pepper, and it does taste wicked when it preserved.

[frico]

Anytime allyuh fellas mention a fruit something click and a remember a story,someone just mention dongs  and that reminded me.When ah was bout 9 or 10 a went with some big boys who said they know where they could find plenty dongs,I followed them and came back home bout 2 or 3 we left  about morning time,well ah get so much blows Inever gorget that.Dongs and Balata sweet but bad luck for me .

[frico]

Here is one that I never saw or tasted but my father used to talk about it,its Ping Wing

[rotatopoti3]

wha about Katahar and Pippi Tambo ?

Katahar is Jack Fruit ah tink...with all dem seeds...I use to like dat too bad...

[Tallman]

Here is one that I never saw or tasted but my father used to talk about it,its Ping Wing

I consider mehself ah fruit demon, but ah never hear bout dat one. Ah look it up, and dey does also call it wild pineapple, because de plant similar to a pineapple plant. It possible dat ah mighta had it before, but ah doubt it.

wha about Katahar and Pippi Tambo ?

Katahar is Jack Fruit ah tink...with all dem seeds...I use to like dat too bad...

Yuh mean tipi tambo




Yeh, Katahar is Jackfruit. Breadfruit and Chataigne in de same family.

[ZANDOLIE]

Balata real nice. I partial to Tanka beans, plum, sugar apple. And could eat chennet and pomerac all day.

[zuluwarrior]

Any of you ever saw pomegrannte fruit tree in trinbago i never saw any but people said they exist is that true ,the thing about it they said it is not red it is green skin .

[FireBrand]

Here is one that I never saw or tasted but my father used to talk about it,its Ping Wing

I consider mehself ah fruit demon, but ah never hear bout dat one. Ah look it up, and dey does also call it wild pineapple, because de plant similar to a pineapple plant. It possible dat ah mighta had it before, but ah doubt it.

Yuh is ah fruit demon and yuh eh even respond to my question regarding primrose? Yuh is ah fruit demon or fruit ?

And as we on de topic of exotic fruits...wha bout peewa, gru gru boeuf, fat pork, padu, damson, stinking toe(with de "donkey eye" seeds) and cocorite?

[frico]

Me and meh wife was trying to remember that Cocorite ah sure ah had it already because meh fatherused to work in the oil fields in deep south and always bring home fruits,another one was Mame Apple,that nice tuh rass.

[Tallman]

Here is one that I never saw or tasted but my father used to talk about it,its Ping Wing

I consider mehself ah fruit demon, but ah never hear bout dat one. Ah look it up, and dey does also call it wild pineapple, because de plant similar to a pineapple plant. It possible dat ah mighta had it before, but ah doubt it.

Yuh is ah fruit demon and yuh eh even respond to my question regarding primrose? Yuh is ah fruit demon or fruit ?

And as we on de topic of exotic fruits...wha bout peewa, gru gru boeuf, fat pork, padu, damson, stinking toe(with de "donkey eye" seeds) and cocorite?

Dis is primrose? I eh familiar wit it.


One time during first period in Form 2, I open de top of meh desk and ah see some peewah in dey. Ah jump up and bawl out "Who peewah is dis?". Dey Physics  teacher say "You, get out de class and go home."



Grugru beef is de infamous banga. Dat tree could jook hard boy. I remember when I was small it had a story about ah man who get lash wit ah bullpistle, and he scale ah banga tree and didn't get chook.


Fat Pork


Pois Doux


Stinking Toe


Cocorite

[FireBrand]

Here is one that I never saw or tasted but my father used to talk about it,its Ping Wing

I consider mehself ah fruit demon, but ah never hear bout dat one. Ah look it up, and dey does also call it wild pineapple, because de plant similar to a pineapple plant. It possible dat ah mighta had it before, but ah doubt it.

Yuh is ah fruit demon and yuh eh even respond to my question regarding primrose? Yuh is ah fruit demon or fruit ?

And as we on de topic of exotic fruits...wha bout peewa, gru gru boeuf, fat pork, padu, damson, stinking toe(with de "donkey eye" seeds) and cocorite?

Dis is primrose? I eh familiar wit it.

Daz de damn ting self!    If yuh like pommerac yuh go like primrose.

[Tallman]

Here is one that I never saw or tasted but my father used to talk about it,its Ping Wing

I consider mehself ah fruit demon, but ah never hear bout dat one. Ah look it up, and dey does also call it wild pineapple, because de plant similar to a pineapple plant. It possible dat ah mighta had it before, but ah doubt it.

Yuh is ah fruit demon and yuh eh even respond to my question regarding primrose? Yuh is ah fruit demon or fruit ?

And as we on de topic of exotic fruits...wha bout peewa, gru gru boeuf, fat pork, padu, damson, stinking toe(with de "donkey eye" seeds) and cocorite?

Dis is primrose? I eh familiar wit it.

Daz de damn ting self!    If yuh like pommerac yuh go like primrose.

Dey both in de same family. Dey does also call it Rose Apple.

[Pointman]

Here is one that I never saw or tasted but my father used to talk about it,its Ping Wing

I consider mehself ah fruit demon, but ah never hear bout dat one. Ah look it up, and dey does also call it wild pineapple, because de plant similar to a pineapple plant. It possible dat ah mighta had it before, but ah doubt it.

Yuh is ah fruit demon and yuh eh even respond to my question regarding primrose? Yuh is ah fruit demon or fruit ?

And as we on de topic of exotic fruits...wha bout peewa, gru gru boeuf, fat pork, padu, damson, stinking toe(with de "donkey eye" seeds) and cocorite?

Grugru beef is de infamous banga. Dat tree could jook hard boy. I remember when I was small it had a story about ah man who get lash wit ah bullpistle, and he scale ah banga tree and didn't get chook.

Tallest ah never hear it call grugru beef... maybe we in Point does jus call it grugru bef anyway ah know it. Piques too bad on dah tree. If ah man have no other recourse but to run up ah grugru bef tree well he in REAL trouble. He life ha to be in some serious danger.

[Pointman]

DouDous mango hadda be up dey with the sweetest fruits in TnT. Kaimet (sp) sweet too bad too. One of my favorites.

[Tallman]

Tallest ah never hear it call grugru beef... maybe we in Point does jus call it grugru bef anyway ah know it. Piques too bad on dah tree. If ah man have no other recourse but to run up ah grugru bef tree well he in REAL trouble. He life ha to be in some serious danger.

You is ah ass eh  Ah tink ah was de victim of inadvertent auto-correction.

[frico]

Jeeezzz!ah never see half ah dem fruits but ah hear bout some from friends who live more out in country parts.Ah notice that somebody questioning the name "gru gru bef" well my wife from PointFortin and she call it by that name.I am hoping to spend quite a lot of time in TT in 2012 and I'll b discovering all those that I missed out on.Ah love those pictures man me and the wife just lookin and longing,thanks mates.

[rotatopoti3]

Tallman yuh puts tears in meh eye...dat Tipi Tambo...looking real fuh so....

What about Pee Wah and Chenette...dat iz ah fruit too?