You don't want to get near the pit anyway. Slice off a side (now called 'front', lay it flat and cut off the other two sides, then flip and cut the 'back' off. Score the flesh while it's attached to the skin, then flip the skin inside out so you have chunks ready to pluck off the skin.
Winter before last we were feeding trimmings from an organic produce house that did a lot of prep for restaurants and delis, and the cattle would carry the mango pits around and suck on them for days after they'd eaten all the cabbage cores and squishy tomatoes and outside leaves of radicchio and smashed green peppers.
The cattle won't eat red bell peppers, for some reason, but the songbirds devour them with enthusiasm.
Julia, right now we're feeding apple pulp from an organic cider mill
I clicked on more than one, but any type of melon is my true favorite. What sucks is that I'm allergic to melon and my tongue and mouth swell when I eat it. Oh well, it doesn't stop me!
Tangerines- not those too-sweet and bland satsumas,or the nasty, sugary, Honey Tangerines that are in season in January, but either the Thompkins ones, when they come on the market with leaves intact, or Algerians, which I havce to go to Pike Place Market to get. Valencia oranges are OK, too, or heirloom navels, but modern navel oranges are just too ridiculously sweet (and wasn't my friend who is a professor of citriculture distressed by that opinion).
And fresh figs! Gree figs with pink flesh, like Kadota or Dessert King.
Julia, and Gravenstein apples are lovely, but the season is so short
I love anything I don't have to wash or dice. If you put fruit in front of me in nice yummie morsels I eat anything, but I am too lazy to do it for myself.
mangos, nectarines, pineapple, and asian pears. and figs, figs are good. (i like the dried ones better than the fresh ones, tho - something about the cross-section of a fresh fig just disturbs me.)
There is a really yummy citrus called Ugli fruit. It looks like a green skinned grapefruit but is really sweet and good.
Also if you hate peeling mangoes, Dole has mangoe sections in a jar for sale in the produce section. They're almost as good as fresh, but nowhere near the aggravation.
Apples for me. I don't care for any of those, but apples are the least awful for me.
Passion fruit (Who can resist a name like that?)
If only a drop of the liquid wouldn't kill me, I might be able to vote for this. (And mango. And pineapple. Deadly when all three are combined in a fruit drink.)
Fresh pineapple. When I went to Hawaii I literally made myself sick eating them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And I would do it again, given the chance because soooooo yummmy!
I started checking, and realized that I was going to check them all but passion fruit... and I also love pineapple and blackberries. Pears have to be cooked... preferably with stilton and a little blackberry brandy.
Cherries, but Bing not Maraschino. Although I do like to eat the Maraschino cherries after they've been marinating at the bottom of a good drink... and tying the stems into knots using only ones tongue helps pass the time. *weg*
I love most fruit, but since these weren't on your poll (though some of your readers have already mentioned them):
blackberries (luscious taste and hideously expensive) mangoes (one Christmas I made a mango ice cream and surrounded it with pureed mango - yumm!) pomegranates (messy but good) papaya (more tropical goodness) guava (I love the texture although I've only eaten canned) fresh figs (though dried are good, too; but fresh are so decadent) mandarins clementines tangerines dried cranberries ('cuz they taste good AND are good for you, too) watermelon (mostly water - but this is my absolute favourite because it yells SUMMER all year long)
Now, I'm feeling all pouty, because stupid winter is on the way.
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mmmm good.
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Also, mentiont hat when you eat the fruit next to the pit it gets stuck in your teeth and is a pain.
So I give it to Hunter and HE eats it.
*g*
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And in an odd aside.....cows love mangoes though they get a bit frothy at the mouth sucking on the pit
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Winter before last we were feeding trimmings from an organic produce house that did a lot of prep for restaurants and delis, and the cattle would carry the mango pits around and suck on them for days after they'd eaten all the cabbage cores and squishy tomatoes and outside leaves of radicchio and smashed green peppers.
The cattle won't eat red bell peppers, for some reason, but the songbirds devour them with enthusiasm.
Julia, right now we're feeding apple pulp from an organic cider mill
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LOL about the cows.
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mmmmm fruits!
Fruits in season are the best!
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And fresh figs! Gree figs with pink flesh, like Kadota or Dessert King.
Julia, and Gravenstein apples are lovely, but the season is so short
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If you put fruit in front of me in nice yummie morsels I eat anything, but I am too lazy to do it for myself.
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Also if you hate peeling mangoes, Dole has mangoe sections in a jar for sale in the produce section. They're almost as good as fresh, but nowhere near the aggravation.
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Passion fruit (Who can resist a name like that?)
If only a drop of the liquid wouldn't kill me, I might be able to vote for this. (And mango. And pineapple. Deadly when all three are combined in a fruit drink.)
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blackberries (luscious taste and hideously expensive)
mangoes (one Christmas I made a mango ice cream and surrounded it with pureed mango - yumm!)
pomegranates (messy but good)
papaya (more tropical goodness)
guava (I love the texture although I've only eaten canned)
fresh figs (though dried are good, too; but fresh are so decadent)
mandarins
clementines
tangerines
dried cranberries ('cuz they taste good AND are good for you, too)
watermelon (mostly water - but this is my absolute favourite because it yells SUMMER all year long)
Now, I'm feeling all pouty, because stupid winter is on the way.
Hungry hugs,
H.