I present for your counting pleasure this dubious tin of Tropical Sun Jamaican Breadfruit, courtesy of the local Sri Lankan corner establishment.

Please provide your totals for the following three elements.

Breadfruit pieces
Salty liquid
Best before date

The only clue I will give re the best before date is that it is some time in the future. Those Sri Lankans do have standards you know...

Any partial pieces will be added together to form a whole piece

Closing time will be 18:45 on Wednesday. Whilst I'll be out fishing all day they've now got WiFi so shouldn't be any issues

wonder if these are relatives of the Cargo that was on HMS Bounty before the Mutiny

64 slices of untoasted Bread Fruit.
175 gms/mls of salty Bread Fruit Jooooooooose

Best before date ... March 2026

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 09, 2025 1:16 pm

wonder if these are relatives of the Cargo that was on HMS Bounty before the Mutiny

64 slices of untoasted Bread Fruit.
175 gms/mls of salty Bread Fruit Jooooooooose

Best before date ... March 2026

Logically they must be descendants as I don't believe that bread fruit originated in the Caribbean

One of my favourite grave captures is that of Captain Bligh, which is adorned splendidly with a bread fruit

Never seen this before! A totally wild guess at

37 pieces of bread fruit
120 mls of salty liquid and a
BBD of February 2026

Thanks for this unusual offering Croydon!
UTC

Bump

16 pieces
140 mls of liquid
BB September 2026

21 pieces ofthe breaded fruit
156 mls of liquid
Best Before time about november 2026

Thanks for the count Croydon and tight lines!

67 pieces of Jamaican breadfruit
132mls of liquid
BBD = Aug 2026

Thanks for doing the count Croydon!

UTC

Wow. This is a challenge.

32 pieces of Jamaican breadfruit
168mls of liquid
BBD = Dec 2025

Up The Clarets

An excellent choice Croydon I sez
15 slices of breadfruit
97 ml of sunny Caribbean Sea
BBD 31/03/2030
This excellent choice will please the foodcounting gods greatly and will surely see us hammer Hull, tame tigers that they are.
Up the Mighty Clarets, come what may.

Having never eaten any of this let alone bought a tin of it I will be totally out of my depth. Still it's a good challenge. Well done Croydon

Pieces of breadfruit 75
Salt water 135ml
Best before 05 Nov 2025

Wow this is a toughy, great challenge thanks for doing this.

49 pieces of Jamaican breadfruit
183 mls of liquid
BBD = May 2026

UTC NNN

For clarification - the best before date only quotes a particular month. So there is no need to provide a specific date, only the month

May I just ask for clarification, if the jooooos is going to be measured in ml or grams? The reason being, that in Saturdays food count, the OP stated joooos in ml, but when it came to measuring time, it showed it was weighed on a scale. I didn't want to say anything at the time as I didn't want to kick up a stink and have Eloise have her 5 points erased

DingleDangle wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:37 pm

May I just ask for clarification, if the jooooos is going to be measured in ml or grams? The reason being, that in Saturdays food count, the OP stated joooos in ml, but when it came to measuring time, it showed it was weighed on a scale. I didn't want to say anything at the time as I didn't want to kick up a stink and have Eloise have her 5 points erased

I'll be weighing it, hence the joooose will be in grams

I think you might want to ask if they want to change their joooooose quantities, as they've all gone for ml

The scales I use when hosting a food count, I can change the mode to mls, gr, ozs etc. On the previous foodcount, on the picture for the Olive juice, I think you will find the setting had been changed to ml.

Pic attached

Ahhh yes, I just went back and looked at Saturdays food count (before you just posted the pic), zoomed in and saw 63ml. I didn't know scales did that nowadays as I don't own any. So thank you for clearing that up for me Eloise. You learn something new everyday.

Everyday’s a school day as they DD

It certainly is Eloise and I know that with working in a college

In that case then, I'm going foooooor......

56 chunks of breadfruit
111g of Jamaican corporation pop
Best before 03/2026

Thanks Croydon Claret and here's to 3 points against the Tiggers ( and yes I meant to spell it like that ha ha) on Weds. UtBFC!

Bump

Thanks Croydon
I will go for 13 slices
169ml of liquid and 27/08/2025

Morning Croydon,

Never heard of the stuff before so be interesting to see it

Breadfruit 28
180ml jews
09/25 date

Hope you ... enjoy it

tarkys_ears wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:52 am

Morning Croydon,

Never heard of the stuff before so be interesting to see it

Breadfruit 28
180ml jews
09/25 date

Hope you ... enjoy it

That's the big dilemma - I have absolutely no clue what to do with it. I doubt the fox will have it

Eloise Laws wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:56 pm

The scales I use when hosting a food count, I can change the mode to mls, gr, ozs etc. On the previous foodcount, on the picture for the Olive juice, I think you will find the setting had been changed to ml.

Isn't 1 ml = 1gm ? I could easily be wrong as I left school many, many years ago.

BigF wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 11, 2025 2:00 pm

Isn't 1 ml = 1gm ? I could easily be wrong as I left school many, many years ago.

Tbf depends on the liquids density/viscosity ... but I always go basically 1ml=gm

Like many other food counters not something I have come across before.
Hoping the artist's impression on the can is accurate I'll go with

11 Breadfruit pieces
171g Salty water
Best before date 04/2025 ( I think it might be a can that's been at the back of a cupboard for a while )

Salt water is approx 2.5% heavier than fresh water. Using the naked eye to try and judge the volume in millilitres to within 2.5% accuracy is never going to be remotely possible so weighing, whilst not 100% accurate, is the best option available

Better to weigh and be slightly out, than to try and judge the volume and be more wrong

Breadfruit 46
Juice 130 ml
Best before 10/25

Thanks Croydon

Bump

36 breadfruit
121ml liquid
7/25 best before date

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DingleDangle wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:37 pm

May I just ask for clarification, if the jooooos is going to be measured in ml or grams? The reason being, that in Saturdays food count, the OP stated joooos in ml, but when it came to measuring time, it showed it was weighed on a scale. I didn't want to say anything at the time as I didn't want to kick up a stink and have Eloise have her 5 points erased

My scales show ml for liquids. All good with the count

Mine weigh in ml also but it's complete nonsense as ml is a measurement of volume.

A quick test shows that the value for g and ml are always exactly the same, which of course they would be as it has no clue what is measured/weighed so just assumes that everything is pure water.

Rather pointless feature which will only ever provide inaccurate results unless you're weighing pure water

Bump

Count in 3 hours

12 slices
179ml joooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose
Date 06/2026

Count closed

Oops, had to take a phone call

The results are

Breadfruit pieces: 5
Joooose: 63
BBD: Dec 2025

Looks the breadfruit pieces fooled everyone, myself included.

Nearest/exact answers as below
That results in the following awards
Jasper64 - 5 points for being closest to the breadfruit pieces
Claretmisterg - 5 points for being closest with the joooose count
Longsider - 10 points for getting the BBD date correct
Croydon Claret - 3 points for being here


If anyone is interested the breadfruit has the texture, and pretty much the taste, of a boiled potato but with a slight after taste of pear.

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Great count Croydon. Thanks for doing it.

Up The Clarets

Great count Croydon You do know I missed a decimal point in my guess...

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:55 pm

Great count Croydon You do know I missed a decimal point in my guess...

Nice try. I'm on to you

I cooked them up with some paprika, cumin, turmeric, coriander and olive oil. Looks burnt but that's just the colour of the rub. Essentially treat them like potato wedges

They were ok but won't be buying another tin

Well I’ve never seen breadfruit, and now don’t care if I never see it again either but thanks for an interesting count of a usual product.
Great result on the Turf too!

Looks like yucca/cassava to me

Get it deep fried and have the best "chips" you can!