One of my students gave me this mango this morning. My first words were: ‘How did you know?’ I love mangoes! As a child, this was our ‘junk food’ and go-to snack. It was plentiful and free. There were trees everywhere. In the summer months – this was lunch. When in season, they were in such abundance we would use them to throw at each other like balls. We had no concern about diabetes or whatever else they associate with mangoes. I still don’t worry about the sugar content.
In my native island mangoes were God’s candies to reward us children for good behavior. It transported us a land of laughter and total satisfaction. They come in all sizes, flavors and names I can’t even remember: Julie, East Indian, Common, Black Mangoes, Bombay, Stringy, Fine Skin, Number 11 Hairy, Yammy, Milky and Millie. The list goes on.
Enjoy a mango today! In the Southeast, the trees are getting ready to be harvested. I plan to be a child again this season. What an awesome piece of God’s creation!
Restored Hearts 
When I was eighteen, it was my privilege to serve as a missionary-helper in Honduras for six weeks of the summer. Just like you, we ate a lot of mangoes –every meal. I’d never had them before (being from Illinois in the USA) and loved them, but they didn’t like me! I broke out in terrible hives! 🤣
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Wow! I’ve never heard of a mango allergy.😍
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Perhaps it was something else, but that seemed to be the most likely trigger. I stopped eating them, and over the next few days the lesions subsided. What an itchy nuisance though!
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god’s awesome creation indeed! love mangoes ❤
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Girl, you didn’t mention East Indian mangoes. My favorite, we had a tree in our backyard (still do) I would come home from school and climb the tree and eat my bellyful. Hands down my favorite fruit. Girl did you eat all those mangoes? Now I know why I like you🤣.
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Not me I can only do about 2 at a time now. That’s a ‘ big man’ appetite – a yardie friend of mine. I don’t know how he found space for all them mangoes.
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Girl when I’m home in JA I usually eat no less that 6 mangoes per day, usually 3 at a time and you know dem East Indian mangoes are big 😊.
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You’re my shero ! 😀
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