Is your method superior over others’ ?
With your mouth.
According to my Hispanic fiancé, you must eat it like a savage animal, tearing at its flesh while it’s juices drip down your chin.
But you eat it over the sink because we’re not barbarians.
I cut it up, then messily eat what is left on the pit, standing over the sink. Then wash my face and prissily eat the cut pieces with chopsticks or a fork.
In Guadalupe I learned the manner of consuming mango ‘a titi maman’ (mother’s breasts). You massage the fruit through the skin, then make a small hole in the skin and then suck the liquified flesh through the hole.
This only works with super ripe fruits, like you would be finding on a Carribean island.
It’s not the most practical but as mango consuming method relevant to the thread.
It actually depends on the type of mango as well. It is like a delicious smoothie.
The reverse hedgehog.
Remarkably easy to do and looks fancy:
Cut sides of mango like you’d fillet a fish.
Cut a square grid into each mango fillet
Pop it out from the bottom and all the delicious chunks of mango thrust themselves outward ready to be devoured. 👍
Stick a fork into the bottom of the remaining slab of mango containing the seed peel the skin off and you’ve got yourself a mango pop! Kids love em!
I want to eat that HEDGEHOG.
With your mouth. Not sure how others eat them.
The superior method is from behind.
I thought everyone keistered their mangoes
Orally.
I usually just give up any sense of civility and get my face in there. I have yet to find an efficient way of eating mango that does not result in X-rated mangolingus action with my beard dripping with mango juice.
Cut the sides off when the pit is horizontal; that’ll let you get the largest cuts without cutting into the pit. You can then bite into the flesh of the pieces you cut off with minimal mess and either bite into the flesh along the pit or cut the flesh off the pit.
Your hands will probably still get a bit messy but your face will largely be spared.
First of all I am THE objective authority about eating mangoes and that is not up for debate thank you very much. As much is my goddamn birthright.
Secondly it depends on the breed of mango.
Now idk what kinds exist everywhere in the world but I do know that theres several legitimate ways to eat the varieties found in India and Pakistan.
If you can ever get your hands on em try one of the Pakistani breeds.
- Chaunsa (white, sweet and black)- the best stuff imo.
- Dusehri-great texture.
- Anwar Ratol- small, sweet, very flavourful. Short shelf life.
- Sindhri- queen of mangoes.
Theres also badshah pasand which I believe Shah Jahan loved and was pissed his son Aurangzeb was taking some of his. (Mughal Emperors and my ancestors as it so happens)
- Cutting into slices is acceptable, skin on.
- Cutting into cups is acceptable for kids (and me)
- Squishing them when skin on to pulp them and then breaking the little black nipple tk suck out the pulp is acceptable for certain varieties. Anwar Ratol for example.
- Cutting into skinless squares to be eaten with forks will be allowed so long as you do it with shame.
Love the passion you have for this and you clearly have experience. Mango is my favorite fruit, by far.
I have questions.
*Why should I be shamed for cutting them into skinless squares?
*If I didn’t eat them it with a fork should I still be shamed for cutting mango into skinless squares?
*What is cutting into cups? Sounds like a style of cutting/preparing but also could be just the receptacle you use to hold the mango, so I am confused by the ambiguity.
*It seems that your mango experience is South Asian centric, as you point out, but have you had much experience with Central/South American mangos? If so, how are they different from your preferred mango varietals?
Thank you for the list of mangos I should try. I may have had several of them before as I have travelled through South Asia several times, but alas, it was in the less mango informed days of my youth.
Keep on keeping on, mango buddy!
Mangoes are also my favourite fruit. Also the favourite fruit of anyone who’s ever tried one.
Answers:
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skinless squares: its the clean, unmessy, ‘sophisticated’ way of eating it. We get down and dirty.
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without fork: that is unheard of! This is a new permutation I was unprepared for, I’ll allow it.
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ive explained the cup method in another reply with an image. But it’s a novelty thing that kids love.
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unfortunately haven’t had much exposure to american mangos, central or south. South Asians who’ve had both dont tend to like them. But locals seem to love them anyways. Apparently they aren’t as sweet and lack depth of flavour.
I’m sure you’ve tried a Chaunsa if you’ve been in south Asia.
Thank you and hope you get go visit South Asia again for more mangoes soon.
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First of all I am THE objective authority about eating mangoes and that is not up for debate thank you very much. As much is my goddamn birthright.
I thought, “Ha! That’s some very funny hyperbole right there!”
Then I read the rest of your comment. I no longer believe that your opening statement was inaccurate in any way.
Lmao I was just joking but I’ll still gladly take the title
!Solved
What’s cutting into cups?
You cut it there, twist to open, pull out the ‘seed?’ and eat it with a spoon.
The skin of the mango is the cup itself.
The seed pullout is the step I didn’t think was possible. Will give it a try, thanks!
Oh yeah need the right breed of mangoes for this to work, need a thick skin and easy to remove seed.
One thing that works for me is pulling it out with my teeth instead of hands, also a lil twist to loosen it first.
thick skin and easy to remove seed
This offends me for some reason but I can’t quite put my finger on it…
Mangos are the sluts of the fruit world
Well if only you had thick skin, it wouldn’t
Paper towel or napkin works too for getting enough grip to manipulate a mango seed without it slipping.
Never tried that. I would give it a go but I just want mango in my mouth. Can’t have a single drop of mango juice wasted on a napkin!
Do it over a plate and lick the plate after
Put it in the fridge for a few hours, then eat it sitting down in a warm shower.
Came here to say shower mango. I prefer mine slightly frozen. Peaches too. Hot shower, cold fruit, no mess, no cleanup, plus the hot humid air makes the shower smell super strongly of fruit.
🤤🤤
Bite a hole in the bottom, squeeze it like an orange and suck out the juice through the hole
Peel it and smush it into your face whole. Wear swimmers. Then go for a swim.
Edit: works best with a Kensington Pride. Dunno why you’d choose anything else, really, unless you’ve already eaten all the Kensington Prides.
Slice both long sides into mango filets, then trim the short sides into strips, and finally cut off the few bits of leftover pulp
The traditional way. Peel it and look directly into the camera as you slowly lick the peels.
