A-HA!

[conuly]

Can anybody now doubt that mangoes are evil?

Comments

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I've always know of their (and cashews and pistachios) evilness, courtesy an allergy! D:

That is a pretty horrifying rash, though. D:

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Libel, obviously.

[conuly]

It's only libel if it lies.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

You know, Daniel is morbidly allergic to mangoes? Went into anaphalactic shock even after just KISSING ME a couple hours after I ate a mango. D:

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Personally I find mangoes disappointing--the only flavor they seem to have is "sweet", with a faint trace of fruitiness in the background.

I would rather have a lovely ripe peach or some raspberries (both of which we can grow ourselves and needn't import at enormous expense) than eat a mango anyway.

[conuly]

Well, there's varieties of mangoes just as there's varieties of apples, and they have different flavors (especially at varying stages of ripeness). The mangoes I've had have had a strong flavor.

[leora.livejournal.com]

Mangoes were one of my favorite fruits as a child. I quite like them. Plus it was fun, because you have the large pit inside each one that you kind of eat from like corn on the cob or such. My father would slice up a mango, give all of us pieces, and we'd vary who got the center.

Although certainly it's a problem for anyone who is going to have an allergic reaction. But people are allergic to all sorts of things. I know someone who is allergic to potatoes. He can't eat french fries or baked potatoes or garlic mashed potatoes, but these things are still good. Oh so good.

[conuly]

Oh, I just don't like mangoes.

As a kid, I had bad bronchitis one year and had to have this medicine that tasted just like mango snapple. I'd never had mangoes at that point in my life, and never put it together WHY I didn't like them (once I got to try them) until one day I smelled Liz's snapple. Ew, that brought that back! Gross! (This is also why I dislike the smell of hyacinth, as I had to have a nasal clearer that smelled like hyacinths. Worked like a charm, though, and my family kept the medicine well after I stopped needing it just in case they got stuffed up. Even as a kid, I realized this was not medically advised, but it *really worked*!)

[leora.livejournal.com]

That's understandable. I wish I had better words for tastes. When I was a kid I had to take this oral antibiotic. What I remember was that it really made me think that it tasted like a rainbow if somehow a rainbow tasted bad. I know that doesn't make any sense, but that really is what it tasted like to me - a bad tasting rainbow. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to have ever come up for me again.

Most of the medication I had in childhood was baby aspirin, which I loved the taste of. I was so pleased when I discovered that orange push-ups taste similar to baby aspirin, but don't require taking a dangerous and unnecessary dosage of aspirin to enjoy.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Mangos are awesome! Even if the only way to eat them tidily is to get naked and take one with you into the shower. (I forget who wrote that, but I love it).