Vanessa

I tried it in Penang and I thought it was disgusting. Possibly the worst thing I have ever put in my mouth - and that is saying something :scared: The texture is a bit like a mango and avacado and, to me, it tastes as it smells, rotting onions and decaying flesh - YUK!

TheCrone

I feel just the same way about pawpaws - or papayas, as some call them.
But persimmons are my favourite; they look like tomatoes. Just bite into them and suck out the juice - wonderful!
Mangoes are best eaten in the bath! They're gorgeous, but very messy.
While I was living in FNQ, I met some people who were experimenting with growing exotic fruit. Brazilian cherries, aoui (that's not a mis-spelling),jack-fruit, custard apples, lots more whose names I can't remember, as well as lychees, but I don't think they've made it to markets yet.

Vanessa

I bought a custard apple from Safeways - not bad but not my favourite.

I love mangos but as you say, they have to be eaten in the bath with dental floss to follow!

A dogs life

Here's how:

http://www.atcoblueflamekitchen.com/...at%20a%20mango

This is the way I've always eaten mango since I was a little girl. It still gets messy though when you try to eat the flesh near the pit. Mangoes are among my favourite fruit and am already eating about 6 of them a week even though the season has only just started. They make great smoothie too with a bit of orange juice.

Mrs JTL

MrsDagboy

You are right, its amusing reading this as firstly, an aussie, but more importantly, as a queenslander. Someone who has never tries mango?!?!?! Shock, horror!!!! And not liking pawpaw? You've obviously never tasted a good one! Pineapples are something that my nephew & niece grow on their farm & that you only eat in summer cos the winter pines are only good for canning :scared: . Custard apples, monsterio, bananas, persimmons & lychees are just stuff that grows in the backyard & every qld kid worth their salt had a mango tree in their backyard or had a friend who did, so you could climb them & sit in the boughs & eat the mangos straight off the tree, bugger the bath . Fruits like that are things that I have grown up with.

But raspberries ooh, Id never tasted a fresh raspberry until about 3 years ago .

Flying Banana

My first visit to friends in Sydney a few years back produced a similar reaction, went shopping with them and they were merrily loading up their trolley, came back to find me holding a Mango looking at it suspiciously, when I asked them what it was they almost collapsed laughing, ended up with everyone in Coles fruit n Veg section pointing at the crazy Pom who didn't know what a Mango was lol.

Soon as I tasted it I was on twenty a day Got a shock when I went home and found the big juicy $1.50 each fruits were now small, almost black, looked like they had been played football with and Sainsbury's were charging £1.50

Have attached a useful little card I picked up in Coles after getting fed up having to line the walls and floor with plastic sheeting every time I tried dissecting one. To work out where the seed is turn it over so looking down from above you are looking at the thinnest part of the fruit, the seed is then a big 'disk' somewhere around the centre of the fruit, trial and error required here.

woodyinoz

Are they kind to the waist?

woodyinoz

Can you grow all of these in Melbourne

I am getting into gardening a big way.
I planted 2 kiwi bushes last year but one died... I am not sure if it was the male or female. How can I tell? I must get another one because I just love eating them as does my daughter. I can't belive that you can eat the skin here. In the UK it was as tough as leather

MrsDagboy

I can tell you a funny story about Dagboys sister making me mango crumble the first time I went to the UK. She told us we were having mango crumble for dessert & then produced a "mango" from the fridge. I took one look at it & said "You cant eat that, it's as hard as a rock & green!" :scared: Dagboy cracked up laughing at the look of absolute horror on my face , cos thats what mangoes (& all other *exotic* fruit) are like in the UK. Sure enough she chopped it up & cooked it - bloody good job it was cooked is all I can say cos otherwise it would have been like eating a brick .

possoms

Where did you live in the UK? I always eat the skin and we've eaten mangoes and since I was a kid and I'm from Rotherham!!!!!

What about cape gooseberries, or in fact just normal gooseberries do you get them out there??

P

Hels

OR......

One of my favourite ways to eat mango is to chuck one in the freezer for a few hours....make sure its properly frozen and when you take it out, use a knife to cut the skin away and eat it like an Icy Pole (Ice lollie for the Poms )

possoms

oooo I've done it with bananas but not mangoes that sounds yum

Hels

Are you sure you posted that on the right forum???

Luke I Amyofath

yeah, which would be more satisfying, a banana or mango ?

MrsDagboy

We used to have a friend with a goseberry bush when I was a kid & ate them all the time, so they definitely grow here, but I havent actually seen one for years.