Yesterday, I ate canned jackfruit to prepare myself for the different tastes I will experience in Vietnam. The yellow pods smelt very sweet. Their taste matches their scent. It tastes pretty good. It is just hard to describe the taste to something we are familiar with. Many online sites describe its taste as a mix between a pineapple and a banana. I had fresh jackfruit before in the Philippines. I don’t know if any of you have ever seen them in person… The outside of it is green and prickly. The ones I saw were massive… about 3 to 5 times larger than my head. You eat the bulbs of the jackfruit and don’t eat the seeds inside the bulbs. When I ate the fresh jackfruit, I misunderstood, and ate the straight bland things inside the jackfruit that held the bulbs in place as well. Apparently they are not eaten… or maybe they are only rarely eaten because they don’t taste so great. Well, in case someone accidently eats it, I survived. 🙂 To those of you who live in Springfield, you can pick up canned jackfruit and other food from Asia at the Asian Food Store on Sunshine, I believe. It is next to a Wal-Mart.