Known as ‘zicack’ or ‘fat pork’ this fruit makes an exquisite treat especially for children…..well, grown ups too.
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never seen that fruit before, i thought it was an eggplant at first
Looks more like a fruit from the Balsam
I do not think I know this fruit. Who knows? I may have eaten it. It looks like a plum. This fruit was not grown in the area where I resided in DA. I am familiar with the popular fruits.
Thanks DNO for informing us about our DA fruits. It is educating. As mangoes and other fruits it blooms and bares fruits at a certain time of the year? Are you aware of that time?
I am making a note of this fruit so that when I visit I will ask for it. I share this information with others in Toronto; also the U.S. What village(s)are they especially grown?
Everything grown that is edible is healthy for us. All contain different Vitamins.
Residing in Canada, in recent years I have become appreciative of fruits and vegetables, also the American ones. Most of our vegetables and fruits are imported from tropical and semi-tropical countries. I grew to like them, knowing their health benefits. No exception Dominica fruits and vegetables. We did take them for granted.
By the way, if I recall there is a village in Dominica called Zicack. Am I correct?
Alongside the road from the Geneva River all along that coastal road via Dubique, Stowe, Pte Mulatre, and Bagatelle, to Fond St. Jean.
My, my, my, I have patch protected by law on the approach to Picard! I say dat because I have police dere guarding it!!(LOL)
in more than 22years.
OMG LOOK AT MY FAVORITE LORD fatpok
this is not fat poke
Zicack or Fat Pork. There is the purple type and also the white (it remains a light green color when ripe). I remember the days when we used to go hunting for this wild fruit. Taste really good. Please don’t forget the nut inside the shell. Makes a great snack when mixed with sugar like coconut and sugar.
I have never seen it this colour. I would love to taste this one. Zicack is really a delicious fruit.
These are exotic fruits. Used to eat them growing up but I never saw the purple ones before. That’s good information to know.
My brother and I were talking about the good times we had growing up and all the different fruits we ate as children.
bwa tan, pois doux, bwi, pom si tere, pwin, mango doom, mango coco beff, and many more
Garcon,
You are the one who ate all the mango coco Beff by my house
yum Yum Coco Plum
Only a few days ago, I was thinking about zicack and saying to myself, I would like to eat even one.I never knew there were other colours than what I know, the red one.Thanks for the informations.
it also have green,pink,yellow and white
I knew fat pork as a red fruit and the inside was white. Did the color change. It’s very sweet.
This is not Fat Pork. Check out this link. This is what I know to be Fat Pork. http://www.barbadospocketguide.com/our-island-barbados/plants/trees-fruit/fat-pork-tree.html
Its the same fruit, and as the article said “the thin skin varying from pinkish white to purple in colour”. Those in the pic i think the color is black. I have seen both colors growing in the same area, and not just seen but EATEN them too.
If you look at the leaves you will see the similarity
There is the red and black
u cannot read
it says pinkish, white to purple. this one is purple there are different colors.. u need grade k classes!
Seem like river side grape to me ,not Fat Pork,.Please correct and confirm.
this dont even look like grapes, it looks like what we referred to as ‘bwee’
It is……The colour and size vary from place to place
That is where zicark in possi got its name.
It is also kwon as “hug plum” when ever u go to Barbados u can buy them along the road side in plastic bags. When they are not so ripe, they stain ur mouth
Nothing good like a fat poke but nothing is worse than its stain.
A next fruit I’d like to see is the what we call the “moweeseeve”.
man long I havent had moweeseeve – nice with some brown sugar and also “pwa doo”……..missing those days
man long i havent had moweeseeve – nice with some brown sugar and also “pwa doo”…those were the days
I’ve been waiting to eat moweeseeve in sooooo long wish i could get some
Wow nice avocadoes.
Is the local name fat pork or fat poke?
fat poke.. long i doe eat dat
One of the many wild fruits available to Nature Islanders, and which make the nature island’s cultural heritage what it is. This is also the smaller of the two local varieties of Zikak. The other one is much larger, and comes in colours of black, white, yellow, pink and purple. Girls use the zikak seeds as earings in their play games.
I had some enormous recently in Rosalie…. wonderful.
ooppss! meant “some enormous ones……”.
seriously? it’s rather eat dirt
TINY………GO RIGHT AHEAD. But let me think for you first. I think you would rather ENJOY a handfull of these wild delicacies than eat an ounce of dirt. REALLY
Oh my, I haven’t eaten that in so long. loved those especially the big red one that would split when they ripe. Boy those things are sweet like sugar. Used to have alot on the way from San Sauveur when we used to go primary school. Miss those days.
Yep…lots of it under ceecil in the area below the adventist church and in the bush above Philip for Toeky house. Man them things were sweet but both areas were known to have loogarwoo so only a few brave ones dared go there with trembling knees. A bird would squeak and your hairs would stand…lol. Oh the good old days in the old school where teachers like Stain, Koto, Ernie, Anet and Hyacinth reigned supreme.
Assertive, NOT Agressive!
hey i was among that group of teachers lol.I thought as much you were from my village lol.As soon as i noticed the people you mentioned like ma Tokey .If i give you all a joke about that zicack .There was a lot in La Rivere Louis.Do you know where that is?.One day we lost our grand mother money when we came from Rosalie and that was the only place we stopped to pick ziczck.man look blows and we had to go back all the way there in darkness with a bouzai.Lo and behold God was with us it was hanging in the diaper it was tied in on a zicack branch i make sin a cwa wi when i get it.
Yep…lots of it under ceecil in the area below the adventist church and in the bush above Philip for Toeky house. Man them things were sweet but both areas were known to have loogarwoo so only a few brave ones dared go there with trembling knees. A bird would squeak and your hairs would stand…lol. Oh the good old days in the old school where teachers like Stain, Koto, Ernie, Anet and Hyacinth reigned supreme.
Assertive, NOT Agressive!
The other day I was craving zicack. Now my mouth watering.