Green mango

I like mangoes
Red, yellow or green
Sweet or sour
Or somewhere in between

I’ll eat them with anything,
To me it’s all the same
But the bad thing about mangoes
Is they make my poetry lame.

Thank you.

And I’ve very, very sorry.

But I really do love mangoes.
Love them from my head to my toes.

 

I’ll stop rhyming now.

12 thoughts on “Green mango”

  1. In the Philippines, we have awesome mango crepe desserts and the creamiest, most intense mango ice cream. I also love green mango shakes, which are out of this world. They taste almost like a virgin green mango margarita. Perfect for summertime. Which is just about all year round there. :)

  2. That all sounds delicious! I might have to go to the store and get some mangoes… although I haven’t tried them in any recipes yet. We just cut them up and eat them :-)

  3. Uh … Shrew, I’m trying not to know what you mean.

    I was hoping to distract you with the awful rhymes. They seem to have worked on Brc, but I guess with you I needed to try harder. :)

    Michaela, mangoes cut up and eaten as soon as they reach the house would be the preferred way of eating around my home too.

  4. How do you choose a nice, ripe mango? I’m often intrigued by them at the store but don’t know how to choose a good one.
    I like the silly rhymes by the way, and I didn’t think anything anatomical until Shrewbie-Doo mentioned it!
    The new template is cool, but I miss the masthead with “and its not made of soap”

  5. Karma, I am partial to the smaller mangoes if I want a good, ripe one. They’re small, thinner than what you usually see in the supermarket, and bright yellow-orange all around. They’re not fibrous at all, and are uber sweet. (Did I just say uber?)

    Otherwise, for the supermarket mangoes here in the northeast, I like them somewhere between green and red. Not so sweet, and crunchy. If you let them get too ripe, then you start having to deal with all those nasty fibers in the flesh. I’m not a fan of the fibers.

    Oh, and thanks for pointing out the missing tag line under my header! I’d been trying out different themes, and rejecting a whole bunch because they removed my “and it’s not made of soap” line. I think it was late and I ended up picking this based on how the pictures still looked neat. I forgot to check the header.

    Hmmm … I just may revert to the old one.

  6. Shrew, you are soooo funny. And too cute. No need to worry about possibly offending anyone. Besides, I actually thought you exercised great restraint in choosing your words there. Definitely sounded like “thinking before typing” to me.

    Plus, you merely echoed what already occurred to me before posting the photos. :)

  7. Crunchy? Really? I like them all soft and fibery. That was one of my favorite things about the buffet at the all inclusive resort we went to in Aruba. Fresh mango at every meal! Wheeeee! I think I got my yearly allowance of vitamin C that week.

  8. Jen, you have got to try mangoes from the Philippines. Even my husband, who is from the Caribbean where mangoes are in season all year round, was astounded at how sweet the mangoes were when we visited the Philippines two years ago. It was sweet, not too fibrous, and the mango flavor just explodes in your mouth. My husband said that in some cases, he almost felt like he had to squeeze some lemon in it to counter the sweetness.

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