Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Yes. That's why you dig the pit out with the spoon. It takes practice, but I can now successfully eat a mango with minimal dripping.

Although I am also now a mango snob and refuse to eat anything but Taiwanese mangoes.

But you can kind of tell what side is the flat side of the seed by the way the mango is shaped. You cut it so that the seed is flat in your "bowl". You can also use a knife to cut the seed out; it's a little easier, but you don't get to eat the mango as fast (i.e. 20 more seconds between picking up the mango and gorging).

Gio- as much as I want to, I just can't take you seriously with that face of yours. Please change it back.

The mango cutter from a place like W&S is the best thing.

& I'd much prefer this image of the now-former Secretary of State.

No. Keep it. I like it the way it is.

Hm. Now I feel like I ought to come up with a picture for myself.

Yeah nope. It's staying. I like it too much.

I like your picture... it's super cute.

yayfulness wrote:No. Keep it. I like it the way it is.

Hm. Now I feel like I ought to come up with a picture for myself.

Your 'nym always makes me think of this.

Seconded! I'll be Hillary, and you be creeper girlfriend.

She's my favorite meme, btw.

Portia wrote:

yayfulness wrote:No. Keep it. I like it the way it is.

Hm. Now I feel like I ought to come up with a picture for myself.

Your 'nym always makes me think of this.

For the record, I did not intend it to be so big, but I have absolutely no idea how to smallify it and absolutely no desire to do so, either.

yayfulness wrote:For the record, I did not intend it to be so big, but I have absolutely no idea how to smallify it and absolutely no desire to do so, either.

Any smaller and we wouldn't have gotten the message! This is juuuuust right.

My vote's with Yay.

I didn't know people had such issues eating mangoes.

I always just cut them in half, cut the pit out, cut lines through each half in both directions, invert the halves, and scoop out the delicious mango cubes into a bowl. Same thing with avocados.

The only way to eat a mango is straight off the tree in your backyard.

#obnoxiouspostsfrompeoplewho'velivedoverseas

NerdGirl wrote:I always just cut them in half, cut the pit out, cut lines through each half in both directions, invert the halves, and scoop out the delicious mango cubes into a bowl. Same thing with avocados.

Interesting, I always cut two slices on the sides, just to where the pit is, then cube them out like you do. Then I cut the skin off the two little ends still on the sides of the pit and suck away at it like there's no tomorrow. Then I wash off my hands and get on with my day.

NerdGirl wrote:I always just cut them in half, cut the pit out, cut lines through each half in both directions, invert the halves, and scoop out the delicious mango cubes into a bowl. Same thing with avocados.

Why?!?! Then all the juice gets stuck to the bowl, your bowl gets dirty, you don't get the last shreds of mango flesh out of the bottom of the rind, and it's not as cool!

@Emiliana

I always lived in an apartment, and thus had no mango trees. However, we could find them for like a buck a piece (for the giant, sweet kind), sometimes (i.e. the height of mango season) for like $.30 a piece. And that is if we didn't get given them.

My second year in Uganda, we had the best mango season evvvvvver. For about a month, I could hardly give away enough mangoes to keep them from falling off and rotting.

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:

NerdGirl wrote:I always just cut them in half, cut the pit out, cut lines through each half in both directions, invert the halves, and scoop out the delicious mango cubes into a bowl. Same thing with avocados.

Why?!?! Then all the juice gets stuck to the bowl, your bowl gets dirty, you don't get the last shreds of mango flesh out of the bottom of the rind, and it's not as cool!

Well, that's more for if I'm cutting it up to put it in a salad or a recipe or a fruit tray something. If I'm just going to sit there and eat a mango (and I don't have an audience), I usually do the same thing but then just eat it with my face after I invert it and skip the bowl altogether.