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a basket of otaheite apples

If yuh see how dem big and fat and deep maroon. He picked them from his mother-in-law's tree earlier today.

Dis is dinner fi sure

In reply to Chrissy

Otaheites are the most delicious apples in the world. I dont care about them american apples at all. Give me a nice deep red otaheite any day of the week.

In reply to Chrissy
isn't that what we call cashew in Guyana?

In reply to Chrissy

we say cashew
we have the sweetest tree lol

In reply to Chrissy

WE call them Plum Rose , they are red on the outside and inside white & they
also have a hard seed .

In reply to Darkness

Yep - Mi love dem

In reply to POINT

Yuh sure you een talking about Rose Apple?

Blend di pulp, add grapefruit juice, lil ginger, brown sugar and water - delish!

In reply to Chrissy

Rose apples are yellow or white on the outside

In reply to Darkness

Every fruit you find in Jamaica is present in Guyana but may have a different name.

Pommerac

In reply to Dukes

You guys have no right to call those cashew though. Likewise the Bajies and their guinep-ackee mixup.

--Æ.

Pommerac..The darker and stouter,the sweeter..

In reply to bravos

Same ting -everywhere yuh turn dem deh 'bout right now. Nearly bought some in di market dis morning but knew I'd get at my cousin tomorrow. Will juice some of dem and freeze. Ha.

In reply to dale_staple

Mi love dem - can eat six on a stretch

In reply to Chrissy

I know..the flowering is another story!

Almost Mystical,like pink snow..

In reply to Chrissy

Ironically, my wife brought home two just now and i wolfed down one. Nice and juicy and delicious.

French Cashew in Grenada...Plum Rose in Vincy.

In reply to Chrissy

Lucky you, are you up to sharing.

It is called jamoon in another language and Pomerac in Tobago.

That is some good fruit ... Otaheti ....

In reply to Dukes

Yes, every fruit in Jamaica is present in Guyana tenfold and tenfold sweeter too.

I facting SEH SUH!

@RMc@

In reply to Chrissy

Duh is Malaka....mistakenly called Cashew by certain pagalee GY peeps.

In reply to Emir

NO dat is not jamoon

In reply to Chrissy

So what is Jamoon den?

In reply to JayMor

Bajans call that fruit in Chrissy's link Cashews too.

In reply to Emir

You bothering with the Emir Of Stupidity and Ignorance?

In reply to nick2020

Bajan's national dish is macaroni pie and bucket pig tail.Go figure..

In reply to Cheeks

we have plum rose here but it;s a different fruit

In reply to Emir

some people call that jamoon

but this we call jamoon

In reply to Chrissy


The biggest darkest ones I ever saw was in Portland. A student brought me some and they were scary big ..in St.Mary, the ones at home were tiny in comparison but a bit sweeter.
The only fault I find with them is that they bruise easily..but this is perhaps the nicest apple.And I LOVE them. Dinner? i ate them for breakfast lunch and supper

In reply to doosra

tell dem stiff necked fools bro, tell dem

take Jah Sun and Jah Moon and Jah Rain and Jah Stars and forever erase your fantasy yeah

In reply to Chrissy

If what you have has a hard seed in the middle , that is what we call Plum Rose .

In reply to Chrissy

Lawd...I need to get some of dem apples.

In reply to doosra

Trinis messed up all the names

Just to be sure.
Is that the same fruit with the nut attached to the bottom?
I know that as a cashew fruit.
The nuts are later used for a game with two people where the objective is to win as many nuts from the other by either hitting your opponent's nut as it lies on the ground or getting as near to it as possible so that the distance between the nuts are no more than the length of the span of the middle finger and the thumb.

these nuts could also be roasted to remove the "cashew" kernel in the middle.

In reply to embsallie

wrong fruit...what you mentioned is the cashew nut

somehow GT peeps call the fruit in this thread cashew

In reply to Curtis

wicked cashew
he seed outside

There was a place in Liguanea Hope Rd called Mimi's at least that is my memory from 1984-85. It was a restaurant owned by Marcia Griffith. I LOVED the food and the fresh fruit juices were special. It was there that I had the juice from this apple....soooo good. The only juice that was better to me was the june plum (golden apple) juice. Have not had oty apple in many years

In reply to doosra

Yup...Grenada too. What we call plum rose is a smaller yellow fruit.

In reply to Cheeks

that's what we call plum rose too

In reply to Trex

'Apples'??!!

In reply to Runs

Nah. It is BG-ites who have messed up names. Here's some examples I experienced. A few years ago I visited Queens- a NYC boro, there is a urban spread called Richmond Hill- many recent BG-ites and Trinidad immigrants have made it home.

You walk the main drag and shop the nice stores and you hear BG-ites refer to stuff by really strange names, some tremendously funny.

Examples, Paratha is called "clap roti," curried chicken is call "chicken curry" and subzi is called "takari"

Cashew Plum

Best fruit on Earth.

These, specifically.

N0 0ther fruit gives so much. Both seed and fruit are ridiculously tasty and versatile.

In reply to POINT

Yuh right - same ting - nebba heard dat name.

In reply to Ayenmol

Dem link een wuking

In reply to Oilah

Minis - loved her food and juices as well.

In reply to nick2020

Really!? So, to try to identify a fruit in B'dos you have to ask "What don't you call this?" it seems.

--Æ.

In reply to Chrissy

links fixed. My bad.

In reply to Ayenmol

Dat is not cashew in GT.

@RMc@

In reply to bravos

Lovely pink snow

In reply to Chrissy

coulda swear dem ting name cashew

In reply to eXodus

Bredda Cashew is cashew ok..

In reply to Chrissy

Che snow!

In reply to Chrissy

Cashima

Is it this you talking about ?

In reply to Commie


that is custard apple!

I was happy I got some apples in December. God bless them Bog Walk vendors. $400 well spent. What was priceless was my sons tasting them for the first time and killing it. We also got some cane and after a while all he said was "Dad my jaw bone is hurting" it just took me back to the good old days of chasing the cane trucks and just eating till my mouth was sore

We peeled the cane with our teeth. Now they get the cane cut and diced in plastic bags...ready to eat.

In reply to Robert

My school was surrounded by cane fields....suck can till muh belly buss

In reply to Oilah
What is the name of that fruit in Bim?

My backyard has a field of sugar cane, sucked so many as a youngster.

In reply to openning

Wait until they burn the cane fields then go and harvest. Eating dungs, green mangoes, tamarind, jamoon, starapple, sapodilla, golden apple...Growing up in GT was sweet for days.

In reply to Darkness

Yes and my mouth is watering.........
All the things we took for granted way back then...
We can only sit down quietly in a corner and long for those days of childhood and cashews in abundance!!!

In reply to Bigzinc

I totally agree with you!!!!!!!!!!!

In reply to Bigzinc

Isn't starapple and sapodilla the same thing?

--Æ.

In reply to JayMor

Where are you from Jaymor??

Two totally different fruit but equally awesome. Tropical fruits are the best.

Guava, sijan whitey, pineapple, soursop, papaya lordy lordy...I think that I am going to cry now.

In reply to JayMor

NO no no sapodilla is naseberry
and star apple is star apple

We used to spend all day in my grandma's sapodilla tree until every fruit was eaten. Mi still love dem.

In reply to doosra

In SVG those are called Java plums . I
guess in different Islands they are known by various names .

In reply to Chrissy

I know that my Jamaican friends call Sapodilla ; Nasberry . they also call
Golden Apples June Plums .

BTW , this year the SVG Botanical Gardens is celebrating its 250th anniversary . The International Airport is due to open by the middle of this year .

In reply to SpudsMcKenzie

This is cashew in Guyana also

The real cashew

In reply to camos


Custy for short. What a nice fruit. It was this fruit that taught me how to catch. Big Bro would clim and pick and throw them to me.Could not drop efenas 6 year old. Then when they soft and ripe we mis that thing with milk, just like we did the Sour Sop...bwoy nice fi days...and all this after we ate quite a few even down to the skin

In reply to Bigzinc and Chrissy

Right, right right! My mistake; it is indeed the naseberry that some islanders call by the Spanish name, sapodilla. Certainly, those two and the sweet sop were my absolute faves when me was a bwoy.

--Æ.

In reply to hubert

If you're from east Hanover then maybe we used to meet up at Custy Ridge. It wasn't a common fruit around my parts but there is a mountain that had a grove of them, to which we boys from my area would make a trek from time to time. And definitely, Mama would make said drink with the ones brought home. (...Except, you're missing the Dragon Stout ingredient, man! LOL.)

--Æ.

In reply to JayMor

I know it as sapodilla

In reply to black

Which one, the sweeetsop or the naseberry?

--Æ.

In reply to Darkness

Chrissy to foreign minded to use the homeland terminology

In reply to cricketmygame

I see Chrissy on J'can tv commenting on Yardie politics at election time; I don't see her in GT media doing same. She even 'gets gone to' on Mason for the J'can perspective. "Foreign" to her would be anything non-J'can, seen?

--Æ.

In reply to cricketmygame

Do you mean too? Your language skills are pathetic even when you're trying to tear down others.

In reply to JayMor

Naseberry

What a lovely thread this is.

I remember picking seed-yam, bull-bulloo and "ninni-ninni" as a kid. Gosh those things were deliocious to a young kid.

In reply to SpudsMcKenzie

Guyana has di sweetest pineapple on di planet. Of dat I'm sure - nothing like dem Guyanese sugarloaf