How to Eat a Mango

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I love mangoes. I bought one at the produce stand last week, and it was finally ripe enough to eat today. It could have sat another day or so, but I was impatient. It really wasn't any different than buying one in the States, since it wasn't ripe off the tree, but it's the thought.

A mango is something you don't want to eat in polite company. I've never figured out a good way to do it -- though I've heard the best way to eat one is naked, standing in the ocean. I have to agree with that, since they are so juicy, and the juice runs everywhere.

In Mexico they impale a mango on a stick or special mango fork, pull the peel off, and just gnaw it off. They sell them on the street that way -- fruit on a stick. You can't handily cut them up because you can't pop the seed out like some fruits.

I ate mine at the kitchen sink. I peeled the skin off one half, sliced the flesh, and then carved it off the seed as I went. Then I held the exposed seed, peeled the other half, and ate it the same way. By the time I was done, I had juice up to my elbows. Then I went for some dental floss...mangoes are so stringy. But soooo good!

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