Meaning
Small, round, green pea-sized berries — also called 'gully bean' — with a distinctive bitter taste, cooked as a vegetable, most famously together with saltfish or in ackee. The bitterness of susumber is an acquired but much-loved flavour, and the little berries, which grow on a prickly bush, are a traditional country food gathered and sold in the market by the cupful.
Examples
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Cook di susumber wid di saltfish.
Cook the gully beans with the saltfish.
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Susumber bitter but mi love it.
Gully beans are bitter but I love them.
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Buy a cup a gully bean inna di market.
Buy a cup of gully beans in the market.
Origin
From an African source; the bitter 'gully bean' berry (Solanum). See [[callaloo]], [[ground-provision]].
How it’s used
Small bitter green berries ('gully bean') cooked with saltfish/ackee. See [[saltfish]], [[ground-provision]].