Utterly OT: mangos

You can have mine. Can't stand them. :)

Cute DH story about mangos, though. One time I'd been having an awful week, and he really wanted to do something nice. So he stopped at the store to pick up some sorbet for me. He came home with mango sorbet. I told him "dear, that was really sweet, but mango is one of two fruits I simply cannot stand."

He still wanted to do something nice, so the next evening he stopped at the store again. And came home with passion fruit sorbet. "Uh, honey, do you want to take a wild guess at what the other fruit I can't stand is?"

(He was awfully determined, though. The next evening he called from the sorbet aisle of the grocery store). *grin*

Ahhhhhh poor guy. That's a sweet story!

Yeah, I'll keep him. :) (For the curious, the final flavor was peach. Yum!)

I can't eat them, or anything that is flavored with mango. sigh. They taste like cantaloupe and other melons as well as cucumbers. (Same "base" taste) All of which make me ill, often violently. Don't even stay in the system long enough to "get a reaction", they just leave quickly.

So in general I just say that I am allergic to them, makes it easier to explain why I can't eat them, or anything that has the juice from them on it, etc. Even mango lifesavers can do me in.

Pati, > You can have mine. Can't stand them. :)

So you have one like that too. Mine has brought me containers of butter pecan, peach, and coffee ice cream. I can understand the first

I feel so bad for you right now. Debra in VA See my quilts at:

I don't need the gadget. I watched Alton Brown slice one and his method works perfectly for me. Debra in VA See my quilts at:

Mangos are my favorite fruit!!!

Debbi in SO CA

Sandy wrote:

I LOVE ripe mangos, but I'm having the same problem I always have. The fruit at the store is as hard as baseballs. I'm talking peaches, pears, mangos, plums. They pick them so early, they have no flavor. If you put peaches in a paper bag to "ripen", you get soft, flavorless mush.

It's been years since I had a good peach.

Cindy

I don't know if it's a regional thing or what, but my mom always called green peppers "mangos"! Can you imagine. So it was years before I attempted to try one.

My first Cinco de Mayo in a big city. Someone thrust this piece of fruit on a stick in my hand. Try this, they said.

Oh. My. God. I didn't know anything could taste that good. I stood there and was dripping in mango juice. I've never had a better one than that first one.

Cindy > had my first fried taco at that festival, as well. Yum!

My ex called green bell peppers mangos, too! He was from Indiana, but had been an Air Force brat, so who knows where he picked that up??? I thought he was crazy and he thought I was- until I showed him the signs in the grocery store produce dept. He still argued that the grocery store was wrong.... Sheesh!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

What a sweetie. Mine would have given up...

LOL! I love dried mangos, too, but I hadn't seen the ones at Costco. I'll look for them the next time I'm in there. :)

In Ohio, mangos are bell peppers. Had a hard time remembering when we moved to Fl. where real mangos grow. Anna Belle in Palm Bay

They are like candy !!! Yummy

I like mangos a lot. Have you tried