Produce Retailer Blog

I’m working in the Kansas City office this week in The Packer’s newsroom. It’s cold and dreary and we like to try to keep things interesting so we decided to take up a collection and buy a jackfruit from a local international grocery.

The Packer’s managing editor Fred Wilkinson and video coordinator King-Pui Leong went out in search of a ripe fruit and came back with a 17-pound, $34 specimen.

Of course, I’m the silly video veteran so I volunteered to cut into it. I didn’t even Google the how-to’s beforehand.

After hacking it apart with a tradeshow knife, we dug into the rather pungent smelling fruit. Just about everyone in the office came over to see the spectacle and at least try a sample of the fruit.

This is Jack. We hacked him to pieces in the spirit of trying new things.

I will say that jackfruit is not my favorite flavor, but it was pretty good. I can imagine it being in the kind of drink served on a tropical beach with a little paper umbrella.

 

And now I’m getting serious

What out of the ordinary produce have you sampled recently?

Have your produce clerks tried every Stock Keeping Unit you carry? How are they supposed to answer consumers’ questions if they haven’t tried it themselves?

So get out there and hack apart your own jackfruit.

You might want to take up a collection and bring some friends, though. Those things are huge.