Cooking Jackfruit Iron Chef Dad

I watch many a video about cooking. Jackfruit is something I have not cooked in a long time. Now I want to find jackfruit and try this recipe.

I tried it raw once, wasn't impressed, didn't seem fully ripe?  But maybe its better when cooked.

My first thought is Jackfruit available anywhere in the US?  Certainly not where I live ...

to cook, canned jackfruit is available in most asian stores in the US (thai, laotian, cambodian). I found it uninspiring, alas.
there are a few kinds of jackfruit. he's got the more solid kind- where i live they tend to be the softer, more fragrant kind, but also the kind you don't dare cut inside your home, because your kitchen/knife/board will be covered with a horribly sticky latex and you'll start thinking you're going to die like a mouse on a sticky trap.

I DO really like these videos because they show what you can do with what you have available in volume, locally- you can make a darn good curry with those same ingredients with chayote, or zucchini, or green bananas, or green papayas, or broccoli stems, or whatever you have a glut of. You're not going to get exactly the same texture, but it shows the ingenuity of using what you've got-- very permie.

In the Pacific NW, at least in the Portland metro area, we have Asian grocery stores that sell them both canned and in their natural pokey huge form.