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the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« on: December 09, 2012, 03:23:31 PM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/115718055

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Stinky The Clown (48,735 posts)    Sun Dec 9, 2012, 03:35 PM
Breadfruit . . . does anyone have any experience with it?

I bought one today for the lofty sum of 99¢, never having seen one before and not knowing a damned thing about them - except that they're a staple in some cultures and a treat in others.

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Le Taz Hot (13,347 posts) Sun Dec 9, 2012, 03:45 PM

1. I had it one time in Tahiti as part of a Luau. Prepared traditionally on hot coals and buried. It was one of the grossest things I've ever tasted but the Polynesians love it, so each his own I guess. Never had any experience preparing it.

Apparently that's all the help the sparkling old dude's going to get from his fellow primitives.

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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2012, 03:40:47 PM »
Breadfruit. Disgusting stuff.

Cutting down the trees makes for a good way to gum up your chainsaw.

There is however, some limited entertainment value in sitting back at 300 yards and popping the fruit with a large rifle.
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2012, 03:42:34 PM »
I was going to say I had raisen bread a few times, I assumed breadfruit was like that, but it isn't.



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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2012, 03:44:40 PM »
Quote from: LC EFA on December 09, 2012, 03:40:47 PM
Breadfruit. Disgusting stuff.

Cutting down the trees makes for a good way to gum up your chainsaw.

There is however, some limited entertainment value in sitting back at 300 yards and popping the fruit with a large rifle.

You wouldn't get to within 50 yards and pop 'em with a 12 gauge slug? :???:
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2012, 05:13:30 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on December 09, 2012, 03:44:40 PM
You wouldn't get to within 50 yards and pop 'em with a 12 gauge slug? :???:

Probably could. Don't own a shotgun though.
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2012, 05:59:44 PM »
Smells like poo, that was enough to turn me away from tasting it.
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2012, 07:02:15 PM »
Quote from: LC EFA on December 09, 2012, 05:13:30 PM
Don't own a shotgun though.

That would be a good reason . . .
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2012, 07:06:21 PM »
Well, if all comes to nought, Stinky could wear a condom....
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2012, 06:20:48 AM »
Quote from: marv on December 09, 2012, 07:06:21 PM
Well, if all comes to nought, Stinky could wear a condom....
I see what you did there!  :lmao:
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2012, 04:26:49 PM »
After about a day:

the sparkling old dude's campfire on Skins's island: 97 views, 3 comments.

the sparkling old dude's campfire here in the DUmpster: 164 views, 8 comments.

<<suspects the sparkling old dude hangs around wth the wrong people.
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2012, 04:48:19 PM »
All I know about breadfruit is what I learned from Mutiny On The Bounty.

The version with Marlon Brando was the best one, IMHO.
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2012, 09:14:32 AM »
2008, vacation to Kauai. Wife thinks breadfruit is supposed to taste like an artichoke. She was wrong.  :hammer:
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2012, 09:29:21 AM »
Quote from: Wineslob on December 11, 2012, 09:14:32 AM
2008, vacation to Kauai. Wife thinks breadfruit is supposed to taste like an artichoke. She was wrong.  :hammer:
What does it taste like?  I've read about it but never seen, smelled, or eaten one.

edit: Hm.  Looks like a horse apple.
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2012, 09:56:06 AM »
Hmmm, if horse apple = hedge apple, then when I was a kid, we used them to keep the vermin out of the basement.......
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2012, 09:57:30 AM »
Chris_:

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"Like undercooked potatoes," says Diane Ragone, a Kauai horticulturalist.


Delicious.  Stinky, ya wasted yr 99 cents.
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2012, 10:31:26 AM »
It's an interesting tree that has a lot of uses.  Don't think I would like to eat the fruit though.   :p
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2012, 11:27:14 AM »
Mystery solved...not the same, but similar...

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer12articles/will-breadfruit-solve-the-world-hunger-crisis.html


 
Osage Orange, Hedge Apple or Horse Apple (Maclura pomifera)
http://www.treeboss.net/Osage-Orange.htm



...but solve world hunger? I guess that when you're hungry, you'll eat anything!
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2012, 12:01:20 PM »
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Is that some sort of East Coast euphemism for gay, male prostitute?
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Re: the sparkling old dude wants an experience with breadfruit
« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2012, 12:04:18 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on December 11, 2012, 09:29:21 AM
What does it taste like?  I've read about it but never seen, smelled, or eaten one.

edit: Hm.  Looks like a horse apple.


Pretty bland and starchy. Put it this way, the things are all over the island, but I never saw anyone eating them.
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