Mango jerk chicken wrap served with a mango salsa dip prepared by Aldith Bruce at the Hilton Kingston Hotel.
MANGOES, MANGOES everywhere and they are just waiting to be eaten.
Not surprisingly, the ways to eat them are as varied as the types we have right here on Jamrock. Eating mangoes is fun partly because the juice is sweet and if you don't mind getting some stuck in your teeth then chomp away. So what fun ways can you devour these sweet nature treats?
Well, the most common way is to bite into the skin, making an initial tear. Then strip by strip there goes the skin with the (by now) delighted individual biting into the inner parts of the fruit. (We recommend a piece of newspaper or something to drop the skin; we don't want to make a mess).
Some prefer to cut slices of the mango and eat them one piece at a time rather than the aforementioned tearing of skin with one's teeth.
Others like to pound, squeeze or beat up the mango then make a little hole in the skin and suck the juice out of it. The common, blackie and number 11 types seem to get this treatment the most.
Another method which involves a knife, is to cut a cross at the base of the mango, until the knife touches the pip. Peel the skin back and hold the covered part while you eat the flesh from the top, like peeling a banana. You then peel, dice and eat the fruit with a fork, spoon, toothpick or your good old fingers.
The fully ripe mangoes don't get to have all the fun. The half ripe or 'turned' mangoes as they call them, can be cut up, sprinkled with salt or even pepper and eaten bit by bit.
One piece of advice, no matter which way you eat them, just don't eat too many at one sitting. The after-effects are definitely not fun!
- Daviot Kelly
Additional advice taken from http://rayma.com.
