Bought Tamrind from Thailand ,labelled Jamaican

[Sir X]

So i googled up and look what i found, interesting.

amaican tamarind (or Jamaican tamarindus indica) from a curved brown bean-Jamaican tamarind pod from the Jamaican tamarind tree. The Jamaican tamarind pod contains a sticky Jamaican tamarind pulp enclosing one to ten shiny black Jamaican tamarind seeds. It is the Jamaican tamarind pulp that is used as a flavoring for its sweet, sour, Jamaican tamarind fruity aroma and taste. It is available as a pressed fibrous slab, or as a jam like bottled concentrate, and some Indian shops carry the dried Jamaican tamarind pods. The Jamaican tamarind is native to tropical East Africa. It is extensively cultivated in tropical areas of the world. Sometime during the sixteenth century, it was introduced in Jamaica and today is widely grown across the country. The Jamaican tamarind fruit is known by several different names, in Spanish it is Jamaican tamarindo; in French, tamarin, in Dutch and German, Jamaican tamarinde, and in Italian, tamarandizio. The name "Jamaican tamarind" with a qualifying adjective is often applied to other members of the family Leguminous having somewhat similar foliage.

http://www.getjamaica.com/Jamaican%2...20Tamarind.asp

[Historian]

Re: Tamarinds

Tamarinds with similar qualities are found throughout the Caribbean. As far as I’m aware, every Caribbean island has tamarind trees.

So i googled up and look what i found, interesting.

amaican tamarind (or Jamaican tamarindus indica) from a curved brown bean-Jamaican tamarind pod from the Jamaican tamarind tree. The Jamaican tamarind pod contains a sticky Jamaican tamarind pulp enclosing one to ten shiny black Jamaican tamarind seeds. It is the Jamaican tamarind pulp that is used as a flavoring for its sweet, sour, Jamaican tamarind fruity aroma and taste. It is available as a pressed fibrous slab, or as a jam like bottled concentrate, and some Indian shops carry the dried Jamaican tamarind pods. The Jamaican tamarind is native to tropical East Africa. It is extensively cultivated in tropical areas of the world. Sometime during the sixteenth century, it was introduced in Jamaica and today is widely grown across the country. The Jamaican tamarind fruit is known by several different names, in Spanish it is Jamaican tamarindo; in French, tamarin, in Dutch and German, Jamaican tamarinde, and in Italian, tamarandizio. The name "Jamaican tamarind" with a qualifying adjective is often applied to other members of the family Leguminous having somewhat similar foliage.

http://www.getjamaica.com/Jamaican%2...20Tamarind.asp

[Stonigut]

Wow, I did not realize that. I know the Spaniards brought it to Jamaica and at some point many of the avenues in Spanish town had huge tamarinds trees lining the road.

[Sir X]

I was fascinated on how it became labelled jamaican, i always thought it was associated with india,not africa,but hey ,i can only guess, whoever brought it to jamaica overly populated the island with it, and then exported it around the world.

Suh wi large,sounds like our history of migration.

[Stonigut]

Yeah, Jamaica was truly a crossroads for world trade and a real jump off point for the Spanish in their American conquests. Other one like that is Sorrel which is also called jamaica hibiscus which is originally from India but throughout Latin America and especially in Mexico it is called flor de jamaica or flower of jamaica or simply called Jamaica.

The funny riddle me this question I am always posing that surprise some people is which country first started speaking Spanish was it Mexico, Peru, jamaica or Colombia, that is always jamaica by many years, the only ones that could truly be said to pbe possibly before would be DR and PR with Cuba and jamaica probably about the same time. Of course this is simple general knowledge and history but apparently most people have little of that.

[Sir X]

Yep

[Historian]

Just a Question

I’m not sure why you say Jamaica when the fact is that Christopher Columbus visited Hispaniola some two years or so before landing in Jamaica. Remember forts La Navidad and Isabella in Hispaniola? Likewise, the Spanish concentrated on Hispaniola first of all (remember the economically successful years of Nicolas de Ovando between 1502 – 1508?).

I’m not saying you are wrong, but I’m simply querying your reason for choosing Jamaica. There was much less settlement in Jamaica when compared with gold-rich Mexico (under Cortes and his Conquistadores) and silver-rich Peru (under Pizarro and his Conquistadores).

Yeah, Jamaica was truly a crossroads for world trade and a real jump off point for the Spanish in their American conquests. Other one like that is Sorrel which is also called jamaica hibiscus which is originally from India but throughout Latin America and especially in Mexico it is called flor de jamaica or flower of jamaica or simply called Jamaica.

The funny riddle me this question I am always posing that surprise some people is which country first started speaking Spanish was it Mexico, Peru, jamaica or Colombia, that is always jamaica by many years, the only ones that could truly be said to pbe possibly before would be DR and PR with Cuba and jamaica probably about the same time. Of course this is simple general knowledge and history but apparently most people have little of that.

[Gamma]

they also probably have coffee too ... suh why di hell blue mountain coffee is more expensive than Kona?

or why is it that Jamaican ginger is so sought after? isn't ginger after all grown elsewhere as well?

[Mosiah]

It's like that because we insist it, whatever "it" is, to be called Jamaican.

In New York, you ask for Jamaican pepper at the supermarket even though the very person who will show you where to find it knows it grows "natively" in his Peru!

However, as we stake our claim to food items that might not really be ours, we are losing it musically. The most popular music in Vanuatu is reggae, but some identify it as reggaeton, whose description did not make the slightest reference to Jamaica.

[Don1]

It's like that because we insist it, whatever "it" is, to be called Jamaican.

In New York, you ask for Jamaican pepper at the supermarket even though the very person who will show you where to find it knows it grows "natively" in his Peru!

However, as we stake our claim to food items that might not really be ours, we are losing it musically. The most popular music in Vanuatu is reggae, but some identify it as reggaeton, whose description did not make the slightest reference to Jamaica.

LOL!! Vanuatu?? Nuh one set ah dot dat??????????

Woooiiiee mi Pixel-Nation!!!!!

[Mosiah]

LOL!! Vanuatu?? Nuh one set ah dot dat??????????

Woooiiiee mi Pixel-Nation!!!!!

I know! Who would have thunk it! An island in the Pacific where time has stood still for thousands of years in some places.

Wi large!

[Jangle]

I don't know where the ginger that we get here in foreign is grown, but I know that one likkle piece of Jamaican ginger hotter than the entire hand a ginger weh sell yasso.

[Stonigut]

OK you are asking two questions here. The first point you make is correct that Hispaniola was settled before ja, look at my post again I said Dr and PR were probably ahead of Jamaica in terms of settlement timeline. On the others look at the timeline of settlement it is well established that the conquest of mex was done largely through Jamaican supplies and support from the established Spanish settlement there. Mex was probably first mainland settlement followed by Columbia and Peru, this is especially so just by looking at the geo spread and the mode of movement from east to west then to south.