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The Pommerac! As we Trinidadians call it! yum
yum makes a great chow!
Chow: highly seasoned fruit with lots of
green seasoning, salt, pepper and garlic!
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nice photos!
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thanks :-)
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Bonjour, je suis l'administrateur du groupe WEST-INDIES and MORE (Post 1, Comment 2 and
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We call it Ponmdo in creole Martinique,
Pomme d'eau in french.
Pommerac sounds strange in french. In
guadeloupe it's called Pomme Malaka. As it's
not really sweet we say also "acre"
and in creole that word is "rak".
That gives = Ponmrak or Pommerac if you turn
it frenchy :)))
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bonjour Jen
yeah, I think we spell it pommerac, because
that's how we pronounce in T&T
(pom-ah-rac). I think I remember reading an
explanation for the word very similar to
yours, except most people (like me) who
didn't actually grow up speaking the
patois/creole don't always know the roots of
the terms we use all the time! I know it for
the pommecythere (golden apple). And for some
reason the older indo-Trini community calls
it jamoon, which I think means sweet? or a
sweet...have to check the parents.
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humm! Miam miam ! belle macro ! great shot
!!!
Thanks for sharing !
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Well, I have never had one of these fruits
before. Looks sweet…
Thanks for sharing !
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J'adoooooore ça
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The flower is also very nice ! one day I'll
post it if noone does it before :))
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You have 4 comments you can post your picture
in the thread !
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thanks Jen, would love to see the flower -
it's been a while since I've seen the actual
tree!
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Magnifique. I don't know this fruit. Is it
big ? It seems to be rather little
Thanks for sharing !
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In Jamaica it iscalled an otaheite apple. It
is had as a ripe fruit or made into a
juice.....delicious!!!
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Congratulations!
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otaheiti apples, my favorite!!! YUM!
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thanks all!
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Ok some history....Jamoon also is the name
for a similar type fruit which also grows in
clusters, It is deep red almost crimson and
the fruit when ripe is so sweet and leaves a
reddish purply stain on anything in its part.
The flowers are similar to the Pommerac which
is also called big Jamoon. I vivdly remember
this tree in the village , well there were
more than one and when we would pass by the
tree we were sure to get one and rub it on
our lips for lipstick. But oh so sweet and
finger stains on the nails as well. There is
a tree as you drive up the ramp near the
Preysal Exit . Pommerac flowers are beautiful
and a great sight.....
Of course jamoon is associated with the
sweet we make from flour and condensed milk
etc ... gulab jamoon to be exact and this
purple fruit was also called gulab jamoon by
some.... if I remember correctly some odd 50
years ago hehehehe.
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ok, so that lipstick story sounding
familiar...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambul
(Syzygium cumini)
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Yes yes that is it.......thanks.
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Ok i am a trini and i speak creole also known
as patois, i can give you an explanation of
the word pommerac. In trinidad unlike
martinique and guadeloupe our creole has been
strongly influenced by spanish. The word
pommerac comes from a combination of the
words pomme which is french for apple and the
spanish word maracas which is what some
trinis call shack-shack. The fruit does look
like the instrument as well as an apple!
Hence the name!
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thank you very much :-)
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