yum yum

as you might have guessed we've eaten all sorts of new and interesting fruits in the last week:
jackfruit, soursop, julie mangoes, common mangoes, black mangoes, stringy mangoes, star apple, star fruit, tambarin, passion fruit, sugarcane, plaintains, custard apple, ackee, naseberry, papayas, guava, coconut, breadfruit, otaheite apple, stinky toe, and june plum

can you guess this famous jamacain fruit:


some other interesting foods we've had: chicken feet, festival, fish head, cassava, ox tail, pig tail, callaloo, chochos, and curried goat. annnddd we've only gotten started. for example, we've yet to try manish water (soup made from the head of a goat).

mama rose (what we're now calling her) is an excellent cook, and has served us many excellent dishes.


and she really splurged last night when she took julie somewhere extra special...KFC