Fruits of India........!!!!!

Umm, they aren't green on the outside, the way, say, peas and sugar-snap peas are, or young, green chick peas are( harbara in Marathi, Maharashtra and a completely different topic ).

They are a very slightly brown on the outside intrinsically but the mud that sticks to them gives it a color of whatever soil they were in - I've seen brown and deep-red.

There is no culture in Tx - OOPS I mean there is no PEANUT culture in Tx ; its just a cash crop for that area - very philistine about this particular aspect - so, 2007, I didn't find any roadside farm-shops with raw, fresh-out-of-the-ground or boiled-peanut shacks with peanuts simmering in oil drums run by one-armed, mostly toothless YOUNGish men ( well not all of course, and certainly not all one-armed, in fact, just one was one-armed, but of perhaps 40 shacks I've been in, at least 50% were young and still lacked one or two front teeth) the way I've seen in the deep south.

The area to focus on for you, in Dallas,( Arkansas might be closer though) is the Portales, Clovis, Floyd area in NM and across the border in Tx. I got mine in Morton, Tx, well 20 miles out of Morton. When I drove down, the crop in the NM area wasn't ready but the one in Tx was. I'd been buggin the Sunland Peanut processing factory desk ladies 3 weeks ahead, calling/phoning and asking - "Are we there yet, are we there yet". Eventually time was running out, weekend availability wise so I just drove down.

When I got to the office,they paged one of the farmers who was in the queue, 24 hour wait, to drop off some of the crop, all 55,000 tons ( that sounds like a LOT, must check that - big double truck load anyway) - who talked to someone else, who talked to someone, who told me to go a gas station in Morton, 50 miles away and I did and then yet another farmer drove me to his field where he had just dug them up and I could take as many as I pleased, free, gratis of course - and I did.. until my wife got embarrassed at my greed.

It is very very different in the deep south - you'll find them in supermarkets, farm shops, road side shacks and so on.

-skk

jackfruit ??? was the smell nauseating ???



:brishti

Jackfruit doesn't smell nauseating; it smells sweet and delicious and unbearably tempting!

Time for you to search for one of the 'can you get durian in India' threads, maybe.

(Singapore subway/MRT signs saying "No Durians allowed".

I wondered once if I was a Durian, whatever it was.)

Do you come from the planet Dur?

nope. Not called Ian either.

Tee hee... hadn't noticed that one!

Probably panaskaya or jackfruit.

Description tallies.

There is no such thing as pariskaya in Telugu
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Thanks grikoo for the info about fruit -very useful& interesting.When in malaysia some years back, in the a market a nice man sold us a fruit which sounds like the Jackfruit you describe. He looked for the best one on his store for us. But as we are quite igorant in these matters,on the way back to the hotel on the bus everybody was looking at us -we realised that what we were carrying was very smelly and we felt very embarressed.Once in the hotel we opened a part of the fruit to try and what we tried was not eatable anyway in the end we gave it to the employees in the kitchen of hotel and they were very happy- it was all quite confusing.When we go to india if we find this again we will know better thanks to you.

That's it! Jackfruit, panaskaya. Thanks for your help everyone.

Coincidentally, I AM named Ian, so your response confused me for a bit.

Was it jackfruit or durian? Durian is VERY strong smelling, something like a cross between banana, melon & garlic. Jackfruit is rather pleasant tasting.

I'm almost certain it was Jackfruit. I've had Durian in Chinatown in Toronto. This was bigger and less spiky and it broke up into sweet, yellow segments.

See if you can find jackfruit chips in an Asian grocery. AWESOME! I have a weakness for them. They are as close to the fresh fruit taste as you can get!

from what I'm reading on all your comments I think it was not jackfruit that we bought because ours was very unpleasant smelling(and I mean really bad). But the malayan people thought of it as a treasure, and it was quite expensive.I'm curious to know now what it could have been, it didn't smell like bananas-melon & garlic(I like those)it very unpleasant.

Durian is not an Indian fruit, or not commonly at any rate. We should not really admit it here, as this thread is supposed to be a reference thread about Indian fruit, but hey, I suppose what is not-indian has a place in a reference thread too!

The smell of durian cannot be described in terms of anything pleasant. It is the stench of a filthy public toilet --- or some Chennai street corners!