Breadfruit. What do I do with it?

In Waltham today, while waiting around, I went into the Indian grocery, and they had breadfruit. So I bought one.

Now, according the DA INTERNETZ, breadfruit are cooked and eaten in different ways at different stages in their development, so the one plant is remarkably versatile. And the one I got is at its "super-ripe, eat before it rots" stage.

They have some similarity to bananas, in which, at their greenest stage, you use them like a tuber, as in plantain fries, and then, as they mature, they get sweeter and more useful for dessert, and then, if you wait too long, they're no good for anybody but fruit flies.

And I appear to have bought one at the "dessert" stage.

So I cut it in half, and stared at it.

So, you know how bananas get mushy, but still kind of sticky? And you know how bread dough is mushy, but still kind of sticky? The fruit of it mushed through my hands and felt EXACTLY like a soft bread dough. And smelled somewhat like a banana, but also somewhat vegetal.

Everything about it was simultaneously screaming to me, "I AM FOOD", and also "I'M NOT REALLY FOOD".

So, I mushed up a ball of it, squished it flat, and fried it. It looks kind of like a pancake, smells a little like a banana pancake.

I don't know if I like it. I think I do. Then I think I don't.

I mean, if I were on a tropical island, and I had to catch fish and eat breadfruit, I wouldn't be miserable. I don't really LIKE fish that much, but if it's a choice between "skip a meal" and "eat fish", I'd eat fish. Not even getting to if the choice was "eat fish" or "be really hungry."

I think breadfruit, at least this particular breadfruit, squished up and fried, is in the same category. There are many other things I'd like to eat more than I'd like to eat this, but I'd rather eat this than skip a meal.