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ratcreature) wrote2018-02-11 02:10 pm
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poll inspired by unfortunate kitchen events
So that mishap where you are not attentive enough before trying to use a fairly expensive fruit and it turns out not to have fully ripened yet, and thus your fruit isn't the tasty anticipated treat, but just hard and gross and full of disappointment. Which is sadder, ending up with an unripe mango or an unripe avocado?
Poll #19481 Unripe fruit
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Which is sadder?
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an unripe avocado
9 (45.0%)
an unripe mango
9 (45.0%)
a third fruit is even worse an I'll comment with it
2 (10.0%)
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We usually caramelize and then add curry to the green mangoes to make a cooked dish. Or you can make a sort of chutney/salad thing with salt, pepper and cilantro mixed into thin slices of the raw green mango. Both of which are quite popular here. :)
ETA: Recipes! :D
https://spiceboxtravels.com/2014/04/11/trinidadian-mango-chow/
Cook the green mango to make this:
http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/curried-mango-trinidad-241611
Re: ETA: Recipes! :D
I think unripe mango make me sadder because while I like avocado okay, mango is my favorite fruit, so it is a bigger disappointment.
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Re avocadoes: Don't your underripe ones ripen? I usually buy mine a bit unripe so they aren't bruised and then wait for a bit. And hopefully eat them at the right moment.
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We get those, and also different kinds of small ones on an infrequent basis. I like the small ones better than the big ones; I'm not at all a fan of large bananas, but the little ones I've had are all tastier (well, except when unripe, BLECH) and have a more interesting variety of flavors.
I do put avocados out to ripen, and of course they're best when perfectly ripe, but a lot of the ones we get here just go straight from underripe to spoiled, so I'll often err a little on the side of underripeness rather than risk losing it completely.
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However most mango you get here in normal supermarkets are sold somewhat unripe so I always have to wait between buying and eating. And I really like mango, whereas I am more indifferent towards avocado. It's okay but not my favorite. So misjudged mango makes me sadder. Also I didn't realize you could cook with the unripe ones.
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But both are expensive and annoying when they're not ripe on time, I agree.
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I had trouble recently because it has been cold outside and my hanging fruit basket is near the window so it hasn't been quite regular "room temperature" there.