Sunday, February 13, 2011

Green Mango Eaters~

So all the locals -- Kenyans and Sudanese, I mean -- have been chomping away at the multitude of unripe mangoes popping up on trees. I wondered about these Green Mango Eaters, something had to be off in their heads to eat unripe fruit. In the States, unripe mangoes taste like flavorless, stringy blah.  I mean... come on! Why would you willingly eat that? If I eat a mango at all, I want it ripe.

But these guys kept insisting that green mangoes were good, so I thought I’d give it a go -- African Style. They eat them skin and all, like apples, so I decide to as well.

Sinking my teeth through the tender skin, I crunched away on all the crisp, semi-tart mango-ness. It was good. No. It was excellent! I’m happy to report, I’m now a green mango eater too!

3 comments:

  1. Really greta posting! Nice photo. congratulations!!!

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  2. Hahaha... I would never have guessed they taste great! Happy chomping :)

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  3. What?! You lived for 2 years in the Phils and you never had green mango?! We eat it all the time! Dipped into spicy coconut vinegar. they sell it at like every sari-sari!! :)

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