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drinks made with Caribbean fruit.

For me passion fruit and lime drink (both wid brown sugar) are at the top of the pile. A lil ginger and lime in di passion fruit for all of di heat in July and August and I'm good to go.

Drinking some wicked passion-fruit that I made yesterday. Lawks mi even mek flutti wid some.

In reply to Chrissy

In order of delectability:

Soursop drink.

Passion fruit.

A combination of ginger and coconut water.

In reply to Chrissy

Golden apple or June Plum juice fighting hard wid bajan cherry to be my favorite. I love dem straight nuttin added but ice. Passion fruit scraped out and blended gets an honorable mention

In reply to Chrissy
wait wait what happen to good old sorrel?

Sugarcane, after much processing, turned into a carmel colored well refined, easy to enjoy rum. (preferably outta Guyana). delicious indeed.

Ok, after that, passion fruit followed by fresh Star Apple

In reply to Chrissy

Guyanese plum with some tamarind soaked overnight is top rated for me. Sorrel also is very nice.

In reply to steveo

The aroma of ripe Guyanese plums is so appetising and delicious ... has your senses swirling

LLB

A milky Barbadine punch is always welcome

In reply to nickoutr

what are other names for Guyanese Plum? what do they look like?

In reply to VIX

link

In reply to steveo

ohhh, a type of citrus. I don't think we have those in TT

In reply to Chrissy

Guava, mango, pineapple and soursop.

Cane juice is crap.

In reply to VIX

I am not sure kumkwat is the same fruit, because when looking at the insides it looks very different. The Guyana plum has a large fibrous seed and not that much flesh.

In reply to Courtesy

Nice list

Favorite- tangy tangerine
Next - tamarind
Then soursop without milk.

In reply to nickoutr

I love sorrel - very refreshing and we get it most of the year.

In reply to Commie

Soursop wid lime fi me

Cherry nice too

In reply to Oilah

Golden apple well nice.

In reply to pelon

Waaaaaaaaaaaaah! No rum drinks here.

In reply to Chrissy
is Jamaica june plum the equivalent to Guyanese plum or to golden apple

In reply to nickoutr

June plum is what bajans call golden apple

In reply to Chrissy

JB right out of the demijohn.

guyanese plum look a lot like hog plum

In reply to steveo

nice fi true

In reply to nickoutr

golden apple

Some of our best memories at St Roses in Georgetown was stoning di nuns' golden apple tree between the two play fields.

In reply to Oilah

Looks like dat to me but a tamarind drink wid de right among of tang is delicious. Also five finger and lime, jugo de papaya con leche, ginger beer, sorrel a good ole lime squash wid banana essence

In reply to Maispwi

Tamarind ok never had five finger, don't like papaya can do without ginger beer but I love sorrel

I also loved otaheite apple juice freshly produced but I haven't had it since the 80s in Jamaica at Mimi's in Liguanea. I think I should get a lot of the seeds and plant dem all round de other islands like a modern day Johnny appleseed

In reply to MaispwiFunny how I really like the fruits wid serious flavour. I love otaheite with grapefruit juice or lil ginger an d lime.

The ting wid tamarind is getting dat perfect blend of sweet and sour and nuff ice.

Five finger nice, but dem een cheap around here. In Guyana we had our own tree and souree too.

In reply to Chrissy
What five finger taste and feel like?

In reply to Chrissy

We had a souree tree in the next door neighbour's yard that I used to lick dung every day for souree. Souree IMO makes the best sauce for pholouri or best type of curry.

For drinks, I don't know if any Guyanese people can still get their hands on a fruit called somootoo. It was the size of a guava, yellow when ripe, and was hollow with hundreds of seeds in it that you swallowed with its surrounding juice. Sweetest fruit in the world and made the best juice.

Also, jamoon makes some wicked wine.
Soursop, monkey-apple and lime juice are the best also.

Chenette

Think they call it Guinip elsewhere

There's also sapodilla (which I loved)

Pommecythere (pronounces POMSEETAY...what allyuh does call golden appple)

PawPaw.....north americans call it papaya

Plum....the big purple and red ones with the yellow fruit inside

barbadeen

soursop

lychee

In reply to Oilah
Taste like a crunchy, pickle-ly, sour-sweet, taste. Hard to describe but is delicious when made right

In reply to DukeStreet

I know of it, they grow in the wild. Kinda like passion fruit but smaller. When you start going into the backdam, you start discovering a whole new class of fruits, "wild fruits".

Does mauby count? Not a fruit though but delicioso

In reply to steveo
Yes, yes, backdam fruits are the best!

You remember bush jamoon and bush pineapple?

Also psidium and stinkin toe.

In reply to Runs
mauby is boss, bro?

A goin n book me flight to Guyana right now. A trip to eat all the fruits alyuh talkin bout is worth the ticket price. Going down to Bourda market, on Thursday evenings the trucks come down with produce from Black Bush Polder, don't know if that is still the case.

In reply to DukeStreet

Man I remember bush jamoon, I used to go to a boarding school(PC) and we used to take farmer boats and go deep into the backdam, up to today I remember that thing, never found it back again. Sooo sweet, juicy and refreshing I used to eat them by branches, they were so tiny. Thinking about it, I am sure a couple of insects may have been eaten in the process

Bush pineapple, never came across it, but came across the real pine apple farms during those backdam treks and we got chased by cutlassed farmers.

Man these fruits bringing back some great childhood memories

Psidium sells in the market and stinking toe I only got to know after reaching adulthood.

In reply to steveo
Yeah boy, don't forget the Fat Pork. The Trinis got them too.

In reply to DukeStreet

In reply to steveo
remember dunks some of them like little apples .. so sweet and juicy but dont let the thorns (aka plimpla) bore you.

In reply to DukeStreet
Tenks I'll make an effort to try one soon

In reply to nickoutr

"Plimpla" I en hear dat word in a long time

My clammy cherry juice never took off

In reply to Oilah
Well, since Chrissy and allyuh talking bout drinks, I got 2 bags of sorell de pickney dem bothering me fuh mek drinks from.

Time to break out the Demerara brown sugah and make some sorell drink tonite.

In reply to Oilah

Five fingers in Jamaica is carambola in the rest of the Caribbean.

Otahiti apple in Jamaica is pomme a rac (maybe pommerac not sure of spelling) in Trinidad.

With all these lovely fruits around the Caribbean it's painful when you go to well known restaurants and all you can get is soda or an unknown concoction.

In reply to DukeStreet

I practically grew up eating all those backdam fruits!
sumutu,psydium(stains your teeth)!
Sumutu makes a mean drink! similar to passion fruit indeed!

Anybody ever heard of "whitey"?? think there were 2 varieties!

In reply to nickoutr

Dunks is still around, but speaking of baby apples, there is actually a fruit in guyana called "baby apple". Looks like an apple but taste and texture different. Now my wife is telling me thats the "fat poke"

In reply to StumpCam

Delicious fruit, comes in big green pods, thats a regular thing found in the market when in season

In reply to steveo

cashew pear would have similar texture to "fat poke"

In reply to nickoutr

yes, but the cashew is more crisp. Speaking of cashew, its in season now, I hope I remember to head to the market in the morning

Man wunnuh calling some fruit I en know bout. I wonder which place Jamaica, Trinidad or Guyana got de most variety of fruit...

In reply to Oilah

Jamaica and Guyana have di most followed by T&T

In reply to Oilah

See it yah

In reply to DukeStreet

My mum made a wicked jamoon wine fi true. Mi love souree.

Sapodilla is nasberry in Jamaica - we used to spend most of July and August up dem trees in granny's yard in Berbice. Di ginep tree had nuff hairy worms but who cared

In reply to Chrissy

Swank ...err lime water

Mauby and sorrel if those count


Re: sumotoo

Grew up with the Mahaicony variety which greatly differs from the passion fruit knock offs that they sell at stabroek. Need to get some of that

In reply to black

I always preferred eating guavas to guava drink - I like it in mixes - now gi mi di ice cream and I love it.

I usually make smoothies with pineapple mixed wid mango, lime and banana - wicked, wicked. I use honey fi dat.

In reply to eXodus

Yep mi love a lime drink too bad - plenty lime and di browner di sugar di better - pu tin freezer until almost frozen

In reply to Oilah

I have a good friend who plants every seed possible in St Lucia

In reply to imusic

Mi love to eat fresh lychee - nuh drink fi me - I can eat a pound and skip meals Haven't seen one this year - dem real sometimeish

In reply to Chrissy
Wash

In reply to Chrissy

I know dat and I love it carambola. Lucia is a beautiful place de place I want tuh go is Dominica I hear it well fertile and unspoiled

In reply to Chrissy

You no see Lychee this year? A true you no come to Manchester. Dem boy seh Galchester

Anyone know Mawmee. Popular fruit in eastern Jamaica where I am from

In reply to Timpy

Is dat the same thing as mammy apple? orange flesh

In reply to nickoutr

It's not dunks, it's downs (not sure about the spelling). Looks like green olives with the seed in it.

Plimpla

Yuh must be from the country.

Meh Baan and grow in the country.

In reply to Chrissy

Slam Dunk right there!!!!

In Canada I usually mix 1:1, Pure Leaf raspberry flavored brewed tea with Tropicana lemonade with lots of ice for a refreshing summer drink...

seems like tomato juice is totally neglected .. tomato is a fruit after all some hard core drink banks beer with tomoato juice

Ah forget de gooseberry dem. Mek a nice wine too

In reply to Chrissy

do you know seaside grapes? they grow on big tree
my mom's uncle had one in his back yard ... used to bear during the august holidays

In reply to Oilah

Orange flesh yes. Sound like the same thing. But Mamamy, maybe a we country people call it mawmee. I have never seen it in a drink but the flesh nice.

In reply to eXodus

sumatoo or simatoo - we had a vine in our yard. Loved it. Was a must in rum punch

In reply to nickoutr
Lotsof trees in Jamaica but if you really love dem Cuba rules.

In reply to Timpy

Yuh serious re lychee - di lady I buy from seh she hasn't got any and I haven't seen any on the road

In reply to Maispwi

Our tree was by di front fence and dem school children used to raid it

In reply to Oilah
Me and a tall Afro girl used to go in backyard of a house in Sando,and teef hog plum,we were about 6 years old.Her name was Annette,and she used to ask me if I was a "CO - - I E.Hog Plum was crap though.

In reply to DukeStreet

Soomatoo is what the island peeps call passion fruit. Mek a nice juice fuh true.

weh my Trini peeps at? Portugal juice..cyaan beat that. Hard to find these days.

In reply to Timpy

Yes I never hear bout mammy apple drink but de orange flesh is nice. Maybe someone her can tell us if mawmee and mammy apple is de same ting

In reply to Curtis

I like ortanique juice but I'd rather eat tangerines.

In reply to pelon
"Sugarcane, after much processing, turned into a carmel colored well refined, easy to enjoy rum. (preferably outta Guyana). delicious indeed."
You nail it!
When I hear of passion fruit, I always remember this girl in Suriname. She made the best passion fruit drink EVER! Even until now, if I only mention passion fruit to her sister, she get mad and start quarelling about how the girl is married and why can't I forget her etc. Sometimes I just mention it for kicks.

In reply to Timpy
Me hear ppl say if u eat mawmee and drink rum u gon die. Well, it's not true. I had to disprove the theory.

In reply to Maispwi

My good friend owns the company that makes MEL's ginger beer - best commercial brand in the region - available all year.

In reply to Oilah

Mammy apple and mawmey, mawmie spell it anyway yuh like. If the fruit is cricket ball or usually bigger size, very brown and rough with a hard seed and yellowish flesh inside, sweetish smell and soft (when ripe) tasty flesh about half inch thick, growing on very tall trees, then it is the same fruit. Common in eastern Jamaica especially in Portland, St Vincent, Trinidad and Barbados especially in St. Bernard Village. ( Most Bajans don't know where St. Bernard Village is.)


BTW portugal, tangerine, mangerine are just varieties of the same fruit with different shapes, sweetness etc.

No mention so far of jackfruit. The world's largest fruit.

In reply to Headley

I hate jackfruit - strange since I like every other fruit in di Caribbean.

By the way green mango juice tastes di same as cherry

In reply to Headley

Your description of mammy apple is spot on but I don't think I ever see a mammy apple tree. It was one of the 'minor' fruits when I was growing up and I know I never pick one from a tree.

(Shhhh I en know where St. Bernards Village located

In reply to VIX

That is the best!!!

In reply to Chrissy

Never thought of doing green mango juice. Surprised to hear it tastes like cherry. Thanks for the tip. Will investigate, I have lots of mango, green and ripe.

Yes jackfruit has a powerful smell. Helps to get pass the smell if you start eating it at a very young age and in my youth days the choice of ready to eat foods were limited - fruit and more fruit.

In reply to Oilah

I ate mammy apple for years before I saw a tree. Trees are not common and each tree produces a lot of fruit. Never saw a small tree. I suspect the tree produces fruit only when it's quite large.

St. Bernard Village is near Sugar Hill. Going east from Flower Forest or Sugar Hill on HWY 3A, it's the last left turn before Hunt's Nursery. After St. Bernard Village the road takes you past the top of Spa Hill and Mellows, continues to Chalky Mount or right turn to East Coast between Cattlewash and Joe's River Bridge.

And now for the clincher! This one is not delicious or tasty just powdery, slightly sweet and strange. Yes folks the mighty 'stinkin toe'.

About 7 - 8 years ago we spoke about 'stinkin toe' here on this MB. Not many folks know it. Don't think I ever knew the correct name but it looks and smells like a stinking toe. You have to be an inquisitive little boy or girl to eat it.

In reply to Headley

Rumour has it that lots of what poses as cherry juice is indeed green mango wid food colouring

In reply to Chrissy

Oh shieteeeeeee!

In reply to tops

I heard that too, don't know of anyone that died.

That fruit has a unique taste to it.

In reply to Headley

Tenks I'll make a point tuh look fuh a tree and plant a seed. Somehow de fruit would just turn up at my house very infrequently.

In reply to Oilah

I am guessing here but I've only seen it in high rainfall and high humidity areas. If you're from Trinidad it probably would grow in the Cocoa Areas. You prolly should consult an ex spurt.

In reply to Oilah

your right that is a trend ... only when relative I didn't see often comes visiting he always brings mamee and huge sized avacados ... im not a fan of mamee

In reply to Headley

Dere was a tree in a cemetary dat bore de sweetest mammy apples

In reply to Chrissy

Dey must be adding some flavouring if dats the case cause you can tell the difference between the two tastes.

Jamaicans seem to add ginger to almost every drink. Had some Jamaican sorrell dat was ruined by too much ginger.