poll inspired by unfortunate kitchen events

[ratcreature]

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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[goss]

You can actually eat and cook the unripe mangoes, but not the avocados.

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

[goss]

Use raw green mango to make this:
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

[ratcreature]

Thanks, that's good to know. Though I'm not sure my recent sad mango was so unripe as to qualify as "green". It just wasn't soft and juicy enough to easily blend into my yogurt which I wanted it for.

I think unripe mango make me sadder because while I like avocado okay, mango is my favorite fruit, so it is a bigger disappointment.

[laurajv]

dammit now i am hungry and want mango chutney on spicy chickpeas