Card of the Day - 2022-05-13

Now lets start with a bit of an apology, for I had to create this card, I knew mine was trimmed, but not how badly until I looked for another online – and this shows on the back too. So if anyone has the full sized version, a scan of front and back would be most appreciated.

This set was also issued by British American Tobacco, but a bit later, in 1925.

However this is the card I was determined to add to vegetarian day, for it shows the big hitter of the vegetarian and vegan game, jackfruit, which, in its green state, ie unripe, can be substituted quite easily for chicken or pork, having a very similar texture. And once ripe it becomes a fruit with a sweetness to it. 

Like all foods there are health risks as well as benefits. Preparing it will result in the appearance of a substance based on latex which can result in skin irritations, and eating its seeds can bring on a reaction in people taking even non prescription medications. 

On the card it tells us that this versatile vegetable is called vegetable bread, and it is the fruit of the Bread Fruit tree, so named because when sliced and cooked it is “much resembling genuine bread warm from the baker`s oven” Then it goes on to say “The particular species here shown is called Jack-fruit”. 

Jackfruit is a big fruit with a very rough, prickly exterior, and it looks like durian, until you smell it, for durian is rather pungent.

It grows in Asia, like our card shows, on a tree, but what the card does not really show well is that the fruit is huge, often weighing over 75 pounds and measuring 36 inches in length, though those at markets are usually rather smaller.