Meaning
A soft, slightly sweet folded bread made with coconut milk, traditionally split and wrapped around a beef patty to make the classic 'patty and coco bread'. A staple of Jamaican bakeries and lunchtime eating, the coco bread is pillowy and mildly sweet, its fold made to hold the patty snugly so the whole thing eats as one filling, portable meal. Beloved across the island, patty-and-coco-bread is one of the great everyday Jamaican lunches, cheap, satisfying, and found at every bakery and patty shop.
Examples
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Gi mi a patty an coco bread fi lunch.
Give me a patty and coco bread for lunch.
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Di coco bread soft an fold up nice roun di patty.
The coco bread is soft and folds nicely around the patty.
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Every bakery sell fresh coco bread inna di mawnin.
Every bakery sells fresh coco bread in the morning.
Origin
Named for the coconut milk in the dough that gives it its soft, rich texture; its folded shape is made to hold a patty.
How it’s used
Most famously eaten with a beef patty. 'Coco' here refers to coconut, not the coco root.