Rivals for the title include a 144-pounder reportedly sighted at a jackfruit festival in the southern Indian state Kerala in 2010.
Kerala is where the American poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil first tasted jackfruit, at age 8.
Then they watched her devour jackfruit and understood that she was one of them after all.
But in 2020, when grocery supplies were running low during the pandemic, she spotted canned young jackfruit at the local store.
“It’s about as close as you can get to tearing into flesh,” Nezhukumatathil says.
Persons:
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, ”, jackfruit, ” Nezhukumatathil, Nezhukumatathil
Organizations:
Rivals, Miss
Locations:
Maharashtra, Kerala, American, Chicago, Oxford, Mississippi, United States