I <3 Mangoes

[bug_mama]

I have a love/hate relationship with mangoes. They are absolutely my favorite fruit bar none and I would like to be able to share them with my kids. However, I first tried them in Ecuador, at a sustainable tourism lodge located along the shore of the Napo river, which is part of the Amazonian river basin (though that's not really saying much since

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[el_coyotl]

I'm as mango challenged as you are. I keep buying them and only once has it been an amazing experience. Now I try to go for cutting too early instead of too late, since if it's slightly too early, I'll just blend it with yogurt, vanilla, and ice and make a weird milkshake-thing. Too late and it's horrible.

[bug_mama]

The Baba and Ambar Indian restaurants have mango lassi yogurt drinks. I don't know how they make them but they are fantastic. I also don't want to know how they make them. I would like to think forever that they have family back home that ships them in daily from the trees in their backyards.

[staticguy]

we had an intern here for a while who was from India, and he said he has not found a good mango in this country. He would have relatives ship him mango's from India. Where he was from, people would travel across India to get there mango's.
Hyderabad I think is the area. He also said there is a Biryani shop in Chicago called Hyderabad Biryani on Ganhdi rd. that is the best in the US for Biryani, which people would also travel to hyderabad for.

[vettecat]

I wasn't sure initially whether you meant the fruit or the vegetable. :-) (At least, S. claims that everyone in Ohio calls peppers "mangoes"...?)

[bug_mama]

That is true. I've never figured exactly out what parts of the country do this but I'm from Kentucky and very few people where I grew up called them that. Everyone knew someone who did though.

[vettecat]

I wonder where that came from...