0 a fruit similar in appearance to a large pear, which is popular in Jamaica cooked as a savoury (= not sweet) dish:
Mangoes, pineapple, papaya, bananas, guava, coconuts, ackee, and plantains are just a few of the fruits eaten in Jamaica.
The slowly cooked meat is then hacked from or “jerked” off the bones and eaten with rice and ackee.
The pear-shaped fruit, which has large black seeds and yellow flesh, traditionally is prepared with dried cod to make Jamaica's national dish - ackee and saltfish - a meal made famous by a Harry Belafonte calypso song.
