THE ACKEE AND SALTFISH:The Ackee is Jamaica’s national fruit, when it’s put with the saltfish otherwise called the “salted codfish”. It’s called the Ackee and Saltfish, the national dish of Jamaica; it can be enjoyed as  breakfast, lunch and dinner. Ackee is a savory fruit with thick red skin; when unripe, the skin forms a  pod, but when the fruit ripens, the skin opens up to reveal a beautiful petal-like shape containing three or four yellow pegs topped with a single black seed. If the fruit is forced open or you would called picked before it ripens it can be very poisonous, because it has a acid inside of it that if it doesn’t open on its own the toxins wouldn’t get the chance to be released. This fruit is very much complicated as well as delectable. The Ackee is a Native of West Africa, Ackee came to Jamaica along with enslaved Africans, who used its seed as a talisman.  It can either be eaten with fried flour AKA fried dumpling,  boiled dumpling and boiled green bananas, fried breadfruit or roasted breadfruit and the list goes on. There was this one time I tried to make ackee and saltfish that did not go well. What happened is that I was cooking it and I left the pot on the stove and went to sleep. Hmmm as much you know what the ackee and saltfish was burned my mom was like you can’t cook making fun of me and up on till this date i have not make a next dish of ackee and saltfish.  Below I have a few pictures to show you of what the ackee and saltfish dish looks like and what it's enjoyed with:---

– Darnique Taylor

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