Round, robust, soft, weak, wimpy, and judging by it’s location you would think lofty things of the breadfruit. It seats high on top of a slender tree, looking down on you as though as to say ‘you there, down there, what do you want?! When in fact it is in hiding. It went up high up, so you won’t easily get to it. It is truly ‘the wimp’. It cannot defend itself; it is covered in soft shell and insula ted. it is also soft, it’s sinewy insides and yellowish white, if you expose it to the sun for too long, its greenish soft shell for short while the shell become yellow and, in a few days,, it becomes rotten and useless.
But wait, before you decide to pass by the breadfruit without an adequate taste assessment; start an open fire pit, slice up the breadfruit with its shell intact, sprinkle some same salt and roast, fry or boil it.
You will find it is a fantastic snack all by itself or as a side dish for other meals. It will excitement to an otherwise sedentary breakfast table along with your traditional bacon and eggs, or sausage and grits, or anything else you have with your breakfast bagel. Therefore, you pack your snack why not parboil it’s slices and deep fry it, and you’ll find out, as the golden slices of fried breadfruit dissolve in your mouth why the breadfruit should be called the: delicious wimpy queen!
