The MANGOS are coming!

[shereads]

Went outside with the pup, glanced at the neighbor's mango tree, and did a classic Warner Brothers/Chuck Jones double take

<< There are mangos on the tree. >>

Hundreds of enormous green baby mangos. To appreciate the enormity of this moment, you must understand how I dread summer in Miami. There are three things to look forward to:

• Poinciana trees in are bloom

• The 11th annual edition of the "Hurricane Preparedness" multiple-page insert in the Miami Herald, which always has a feature article explaining how screwed I am if I don't rebuild the house to the current building code before May 23

• Mango season

We have dozens of varieties of mangos. Drippy, musky, juicy-sweet mangos. Round ones, ovoid ones, orange ones and yellow ones and plaid ones.

We have a Mango Festival. We drink mango milkshakes. We once had a local public radio program about mango season, where I heard the following:

Interviewer: "Lloyd, I wish our listening audience could see the size of your mangos."

Who wants to make mango shakes?

 

[SummerMorning]

I miss my mangoes...I remember once an army of big black and red caterpillars with white fur came along and ate the whole tree. Well, the leaves anyway.

 

[Guest]

Ah, my favourite fruit, maybe favourite food. I still recall the sight of my first mango grove in Mexico.

Have a fine, messy mango season, Sher. P.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Mmmm, man-goo...

 

[Xelebes]

I had a mango marguerita last night, my first marguerita (I doubt I even spelled that right) and I must say it was by far too sweet. I guess I'm not a marguerita person.

 

[shereads]

Mmmm, man-goo...

Nicely Simsonesque.

 

[SummerMorning]

or was it Simpsonesque?

Mmm... forbidden man-goo...

 

[SummerMorning]

Or just man goo - which sounds a bit... suitable for this forum.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Homeresque.

 

[shereads]

I had a mango marguerita last night, my first marguerita (I doubt I even spelled that right) and I must say it was by far too sweet. I guess I'm not a marguerita person.

One bad mango marguerita doesn't mean you don't like mangos.

 

[shereads]

or was it Simpsonesque?

Mmm... forbidden man-goo...

Yes, what you said.





Mmm...gummi venus de milo.

 

[Xelebes]

One bad mango marguerita doesn't mean you don't like mangos.

I said I didn't like margueritas, not mangos. Mangos are ok.

 

[raphy]

Ewww, fruit

 

[English Lady]

ooh mangoes are so yummy and sensual.....mmmmmmm

 

[lucky-E-leven]

The only time I tried a mango, I had a skin reaction to it. Not pretty and it burned like hell. I'm staying away from mangoes.

That'll teach me from trying new things with a girl from Hawaii that eats them off of the tree.

~lucky

 

[Madame Manga]

I love 'em. But I should NOT try to buy them at Safeway. The local Mercado is bound to have better mangoes than the horrible Safeway produce department. My husband hates mangoes--it's that faint, piquant hint of turpentine in their flavor, I think. But he hates peaches and pears too, so the mangoes are in good company.

It's true, they do have an irritant in the skin to which some people are sensitive. Make someone else prepare them and don't bite the cubes straight off the skin and you should be OK, barring some sort of specific allergy.

Ever have mango cubes skewered and grilled? Yum.

MM

Edited to add: Many people have mistakenly addressed me as Madame Mango, but I don't really mind.

 

[shereads]

The only time I tried a mango, I had a skin reaction to it. Not pretty and it burned like hell. I'm staying away from mangoes.

That'll teach me from trying new things with a girl from Hawaii that eats them off of the tree.

~lucky

Don't eat the skin! Noooo! Mango skin has an irritant in it that's similar to poison ivy. No wonder it wasn't pretty.

 

[shereads]

Ewww, fruit

Raphy, don't think of them as fruit. Think of them as a milkshake ingredient. An ice cream topping. Or think of them as something sweet and juicy that you might feed to someone, with your fingertips, in a moment when sticky juice is not objectionable...

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Don't eat the skin! Noooo! Mango skin has an irritant in it that's similar to poison ivy. No wonder it wasn't pretty.

NOW ya' tell me! That little shit friend of mine ate it like an apple and didn't get a spot. I swear it took the top layer of my tongue off too, but thank goodness that's back to normal.

Perhaps I'll give them a go again. I really liked the fruit.

~lucky

 

[Guest]

Here's a good site with illustrations at the bottom on a few ways of preparing a mango for eating. I love the cubed way as I then pour lime juice over the fruit and sprinkle with either salt or chile powder. I'm so lucky, we get mangos all year round here, and all kinds.

Perdita

Mango

 

[Mhari]

I'm hungry now! That lovely firm fruit to bite...




Damn Perdita's AV!



~M

 

[Guest]

Damn Perdita's AV!

Aw, go buy a mango. P.

 

[Mhari]

*pouts*

~M

 

[raphy]

Raphy, don't think of them as fruit. Think of them as a milkshake ingredient. An ice cream topping. Or think of them as something sweet and juicy that you might feed to someone, with your fingertips, in a moment when sticky juice is not objectionable...

Sorry, I don't eat anything that's remotely good for you.

Maybe if you fried it, with lots of fat and grease and poured a ton of salt on it I might consider it.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I don't eat anything that's remotely good for you.

Maybe if you fried it, with lots of fat and grease and poured a ton of salt on it I might consider it.

*Mutters something about damn British men and their fried food*

Tell Whisp I both empathise and sympathise.

Lou