💬 Mangoes should be squeezed and sucked, not sliced

I'll say it plainly. Slicing a mango is a crime, and I'm tired of watching people do it. A ripe mango needs to be squeezed all over first. Roll it on the table until it goes soft. Then you bite a small hole at the top and suck. Juice runs down your wrist and you let it. My cousins and I did this on my grandmother's terrace every summer. We were told to go wash after. In Jeddah the Indian mangoes show up in May in a box of 6, always at a crazy price. Last year I paid 60 riyals and sat on my kitchen floor eating 3 of them in one go. A friend from work stopped by, saw juice up to my elbows, and said, what are you doing, man? I said it's the only correct way. He said there's a knife in the drawer and left. The skin is the best part. People throw away half the mango when they slice it. Squeezing gets the pulp right off the inside of the skin, every last bit of it. Then you can cut the skin open and scrape the rest. Nothing wasted, nothing on the plate. My grandmother used to hand me the skin at the end, still half orange. Best part of the day. I get it, sliced looks cleaner. If you've got guests, fine, bring the plate and fork. But if it's just you and the mango, you're missing it. Ask any kid under 10. My sister cuts hers into cubes and eats them with a toothpick. We don't talk about that. I'm going to buy another box on Thursday. I'll eat it standing over the sink.

My father is a squeezer. He's done it since before I was born, my grandmother says. At mango season he goes to the kitchen sink so the rest of us don't have to watch. I never understood it until I read your skin tip. He does scrape the skin at the end. I'm a slicer, but I still go to the sink with him sometimes. Just for the noise.

Not a chance. I get mango on my wrist and then somehow on my collar too.

Slices for me. I tried your method once at a family lunch and it went badly. Juice on my shirt, juice on the tablecloth, and my aunt gave me a long look. But I'll admit the skin tip is new to me. Scraping the inside sounds kind of smart. I might try it alone at home, with a towel and nobody watching. Just once.