There's a potato for every occasion. Breakfast? Hash browns. Lunch? Fries. Dinner? Baked potato. Having a party? Potato chips. Wife divorced you and took the kids? Vodka.
Peru to Eastern Europe: "ah you think the potato is your friend, but you merely adopted it. I was born to it, molded by it, I did not see cereals till I was colonized and by then it only made me gassy!"
You'd need a way to convert the starches into sugars first.
I found a few forum threads where someone got as far as realizing that, declared maybe they'll try, and never came back. But no mentions of completed bean beers.
We can thank Quechua scientists for giving us some of the best agricultural technology out there. I don't have links, but its pretty interesting to read about some of the agricultural labs that were built in the andes ages ago to make this delicious monstrosity:
No. Jackfruit is the real superfood. First comes the fruit. Obviously, it is super-sweet, and not stinky like it's sibling fruit they sell in South-East Asia. You want papad? Sweet, salty, get them all. Pickled raw jackfruit? Simply the best. Want to eat something that tastes like potato, but granier? Jackfruit seeds at your service.
You want dosa? Jackfruit with urad dal and dosa rice would like to have a word with you - again, sweet or plain, that's up to you. Are you craving sweet stuff? Steamed jackfruit cakes. Want something more texturey? Coconut flake and jaggery dumpling, with jackfruit as the cover. Want some other alternative sweet dish? Jackfruit custard and kheer exists.
Did I forget something? Ah, yes. Freeze it, and you end up with ice-cream. Jackfruit is also used to make experimental kevlar substitute, and can stop bullets. Vegan leather comes from jackfruit. Jackfruit also secretes natural latex of a certain kind. Just be careful enough, and you could have a makeshift, sweet-tasting condom. Ignore the last one, I just made that up.
i'm happy to see your enthusiasm for jackfruit. i find its nutritional value lacking, especially since in the west it's mostly used as a meat substitute, but has very little protein in it. guess i should give it another try.
Interestingly, the cuisine local to our region is such that the lack of proteins in Jackfruit is supplemented by other veggies, especially lentils, beans and wild mangoes. And obviously, lots of fish (which is not vegan, but they don't need to mind this, the above vegan substitutes will do just fine).
It probably does not grow in Poland, as it requires tropical and subtropical climates, but it is truly an amazing exotic fruit. It is the most superior vegan food, after coconut.
And you know what, Jackfruit has wine, because it is truly the most exotic fruit worthy for champagne socialists🍷
And there's a really cool song too. Btw, raw jackfruit has a meaty texture, making it superior to soy substitutes.
If I was stuck on an island and I had one crop to choose it'd either be sweet potato or amaranth. Probably amaranth if I'm being honest because under the right conditions it will spread like wildfire and you get (pseudo)grains out of it along with spinach-except-better, but amaranth is not as well known in the west these days. At some points in human history there's archaeological evidence that amaranth family crops were of major importance though.
But sweet potato is right up there too. It also spreads like a weed and requires virtually no intervention under the right conditions. Shit, you can even try drowning sweet potato and it'll be like "Alright, bet" and it'll continue to grow. Tuber+greens is a winning combination.