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I've actually used this technique, and it works! Although I did have to leave some bits of mango at the bottom of my seed where my Safeways plastic spoon couldn't get at them. Anyway [+] for mango related content. |
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Bread for angering Steven Jay Gould with your "telling a story" method of explaining an evolutionary aptation. |
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Mmmmmmm...mangoes. I usually eat them while standing over the kitchen sink so I won't make a mess everywhere else. I shall try this new technique this afternoon. |
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Use a spoon!? INCREDIBLE!!! This whole time I've been eating steak by sticking my face into the bloody hunk of meat, I could've just been using silverware! [-] |
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Seems like you'd miss a lot of the fruit, unless you use a grapefruit spoon. |
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Ummm... Try this:
Hold the mango upright, as suggested.
With a sharp knife, cut the entire "cheek" away from the side of the fruit, running as close to the seed as you can.
Rotate the fruit through 180deg and repeat.
Holding one "cheek" in the palm of your hand carefully cross-hatch the fruit, down to the skin, taking care not to cut the skin through. Make about 16 x 1in squares.
Using both hands, press the skin inwards and upwards, so you have the cubes of fruit everted and standing out like the segments on a fragmentation grenade.
Eat, without mess. |
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The fruit left on the seed is also easy to remove. Pare the skin off in one long strip. The seed is left with a rim of flesh, easy to bite off. |
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I grew up with seven mango trees in our backyard. There is *no* easier way to eat them than I have described. |
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Zanz, your way is certainly easier, but it's also a lot messier. |
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It took [zanz] all day to post his anno, because his keyboard is so sticky :) |
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I like to cut a " ‡ " and then to spread them and eat. I get a nasty reaction to them, though, due to their taxonomy as part of the same plant family as poison ivy. |
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I don't recall ever really getting much mango on me, eating them that way. Then again, I probably never eat more than 200 mangoes in any year, so I may not be giving myself a fair chance to get all gooey. |
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Bythe way, [dpsyplc], the reaction is to an oleoresin, called urushiol, in mango sap. It is common to all of the Rhus family of trees, and is also present in Japanese and Chinese lacquer. Mango sap is nasty. It will take automotive paint off, first time. If it splashes on your skin and you don't wash it off straight away then your skin will blister and peel. I had many "mango boils" when I was a kid. |
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i always find that simply cutting the "cheeks" off the mango then using a metal spoon to dig out the flesh usually suffices to eat a mango with minimum mess. you just have to cut in against the grain.Also, [zanzibar] either you have rather sensitive skin or im immune to mango sap because the most i've ever gotten from it is a slight itchyness. |
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Maybe it's the variety? I never got it from Kensington Pride trees, or Bullock's Heart, but the Common and Turpentine varieties are pretty nasty. Left on for a few hours (if you didn't know about it) and I've never met anyone immune to it. |
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I don't know about variety, i just call them mango, apple mango, and green mango. Also, apple mango is a wonderful answer to the mess problem as they contain less juice than normal mangoes and you can cut them up before you leave the house so you don't have to fuss with spoons or knives during lunch. |
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I agree with [bonsai_rainbow], in Thailand that's how they do it.
I'm told that the sap from Bananas is worse than the sap from Mangoes, and that the sap from Papaya is worse than the sap from Bananas. Unripe Papaya is finely cut and used to soften meat. |
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I'm kind of terrified by the number of people out there who eat fruits and smear themselves with sap, and yet don't bother to wash it off, to be completely honest. |
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I eat my mangoes with a fork. I open the lid, stab me a slice, and insert into hungry mouth. |
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Don't sit under the apple tree .... |
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In places I've lived, were you to ask for a mango you'd get a green bell pepper. |
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Yes, apple mango. The flesh is firmer and the skin is usally a redder colour when ripe. |
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There's a type of mango you can roll between your palms so that the insides get squashed, then make a hole in the skin and suck the contents out. |
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But, to really appreciate a mango you have to eat it solo - then change your clothes and take a bath. |
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there are many great techniques, but few will work in a professional environment. Cutting the mango into chunks before is just blasphemy! |
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Actually, there is an easier way to eat a mango. I learned this in Ecuador, when I was in the Peace Corps. Basically, you cut a small hole in the bottom end of the mango and suck the insides out. Squeeze the mango gently and keep sucking. If you squeeze too hard the skin will split and you'll have flesh melting mango all over you. The horror.
Anyway, this is a good way to enjoy a mango without having to pick 2-3 oz. of mango flesh strings out of your teeth.
The same thing works for thick skinned oranges.
cj
And I guess I should read all the way through to the end. The mangoes that you would eat this way were called mangos de chupar or "sucking mangoes". |
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