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around 8.00 after my morning walk.
Picked up two that fell over night (good for juicing) and then looked for some turning ones.
Saw this lovey one all red, yellow orange and green - touched it and it literally slipped into my hand.
Chilled it for two hours - just had my first slice - freaking delish - the perfect mango - perfectly fit and ripe.

Eat yuh hearts out.

In reply to Chrissy

The only life!

Did similar with a long slim-thick pawpaw de odder day..(papaya) You know the long ones have thicker walls and a smaller void core..

Did wonders for my digestive system...,you can feel taste and smell your body positively reacting to it,the seeds are lil magic pills too...

Gimme a suck of yah julie mango


Couldn't resist!

In reply to bravos

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The seeds taste horrible. You swallow them without chewing?

In reply to Curtis

Yuh like sucking Julie?

In reply to bravos

Got some lovely pawpaws at a friend's home last week - nice pineapples too.

what is the best way to enjoy a ripe julie mango?


for me, knead it and soften it real good without breaking the skin. Put in fridge for a bit, then insert straw or just make small puncture and have fun.

hands stay clean and nothing stuck in teeth.

In reply to cricketest

Julie is a uptown mango my yute
With flesh firm and sweet, like music from a flute
There is no hair in the meat
To get stuck in yuh teet
Google if yuh doan believe but dat is the trute

Jack Mandora mi nuh choose none ..

In reply to black

I bite them and burst them chew and spit out roughage,when you pass them that's all you smell no matter what else you ate,it's like a good cleanse,seems like it promotes the good bacteria and kills neutralizes the bad ones like acidophilous..

In reply to Chrissy

WTF was that all about?

In reply to Chrissy

Got some pine in the yard too,got whole plants with young fruit on a jobsite couple years ago,real hardy plant they thrive anywhere and bear over and over..

In reply to cricketmygame

She got it fresh from a mango tree and not a Walmart force-ripe sour to de seed bastard mango...

It was for who the cap fit man..so if you had a similar experience recently you are free to contribute ..

In reply to Chrissy

Got a large one from a colleague this morning

In reply to Chrissyt

Lady , there really is no reason to eat my heart out , One of my two trees has little Ones on it .

So by May or June I shall be eating
mangoes , there ae many more on that tree than last year , which Ido not believe was a Good year in WPB .

In reply to JohnBull

mi rahtid


dem kind of lyrics are wasted on this crowd
dey only notice when di chatter is loud

a julie mango is di sweetest ting
after the first lick yuh heart will sing

At times it will stick in your teeth
the best remedy is to get another and repeat

In reply to ponderiver


Buxton Spice

In reply to JohnBull

Correct is right

In reply to bravos

In reply to POINT

Mine ready now

In reply to Chrissy

0 °C and you has the nerve to talk about Julie mangoes, on a tree.
Where is the love.

In reply to openning

Hehehehehhehe

In reply to Bigzinc

Nice mango dat

In reply to cricketmygame

How many of allyuh overseas can pick and eat mango or any other tropical fruit?
Eat yah hearts out.
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The julie tree will soon be ready. I fear mangoes though. Its so addictive. Especially nice julies of the type you described. You have to exercise regularly to eat mango.

In reply to Chrissy

Love a Julie mango and a de Pawi mango but all ah dem run a second to de glorious Bombay

In reply to Oilah

Had a Bombay Saturday. Gorgeous mango - dat sweet to sour is divine

In reply to dale_staple

An hour and a half of exercise four days a week - maximum one a day fi mango season

In reply to Chrissy

You are a wicked woman

In reply to Chrissy

This mango thread is like Dejavu..

Was waiting for a 'Bombay' mango comment!!

Yuh mean allyuh havtu start dis fuckry knowing I daz read di MB.

In reply to granite

Suffa

In reply to bravos

Bombay is di greatest mango on di planet

In reply to Maispwi

Yuh done know

In reply to cricketmygame

Her's is picking a mango from a tree. What's your life simple pleasures?

One of mine is to get up and enjoy rowing through my own gears every morning while I drive to work. Driving stick-shift is fun for me even here in NY.

In reply to Chrissy

Ok, rub it in.

My issue though runs a lot deeper than the (un)availability of the various mango 'variety'. While I love to see mangoes and even smell them, that's as close I can get without a visit to the emergency room.

Actually, I can taste a black mango (aka green-edge (sp)), but that's it.

In reply to bravos



The best! Bar none!


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In reply to Chrissy




Yes!!!!!






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In reply to JohnBull



Fi real!





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In reply to JohnBull

well said

In reply to Chrissy

I nevah had a Julie Mango. How does it compare to Buxton Spice?

doux doux mango
mango vert (have dental floss handy)
mango julie
starch mango
ice cream mango (to the best of my knowledge..only found in tobago)

in dat order

In reply to Yamfoot

TMI!!!!

In reply to DukeStreet

Different flavour and texture but two lovely mangoes

In reply to Drapsey

Wow - are you allergic?
Never heard of a mango issue before. My mum was allergic to bananas.

In reply to Chrissy

What a torturer you are

As this talk bout mango can kiss mi ass
Christine is true … yuh wicked nuh rass
When yuh ress ah foreign
The fruits situation well worryin’
Dem tuff and sour and muster cyaan pass

For me it's the Sweet Elena from the Phillipines

In reply to Chrissy

Just for you

In reply to Chrissy

When me read you comments about the Julie mangoes it just mek me heart sing – me have like 3 variety of what could be rightly called “FAKE” mangoes on me kitchen counter. I never knew you had sour mangoes – I bought 6 seemingly good looking mangoes at a farm couple days ago ---- sour oranges are sweeter than them ----- with the other species – you buy six – and may salvage 1 ½ ---- George Bush had supposedly made a deal with India to import Bombay mangoes – I was excited – but that never materialize --- maybe I may have to move to florida and star a mango farm -

In reply to Maispwi

Look 'pon mango

In reply to birdseye

Mi feel it fi yuh

Di only time of year dis yard is perfectly clean is mango season - di gardener shows up on extra days fi free (to fill his bag).

In reply to JohnBull

Hehehehehehhehe - slices julie

In reply to Chrissy


I am scheduled to be in the Yard in July. If the Bombay season is over before then, keep two in the fridge for me!





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In reply to Chrissy

Julie mangoes from near the leeward side of SVG = heaven. large, sweet and juicy

so good it have ah stamp!

In reply to Ewart

Keep bombay in the fridge so long?
Yuh crazy if yuh feel her willpower that strong
They'll be washed, cut and cleaned
then filled with ice cream
IF yuh think yuh will see them yuh wrong

In reply to JohnBull

Tell him - filled wid Devon House coconut ice cream to boot

In reply to pelon

Nice

In reply to Chrissy

chrissy is one bad minded woman..

them thing we get here are not mangoes but faux mango...looks good but blah blah blah....I tell my non tropical friends here that them mangoes they rave about are nothing compared to the real deal...a la chrissy's.


enjoy enjoy enjoy

the best fruit is a mango bar none

southee might return to hear more about this

In reply to JohnBull





Wasn't thinking!


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In reply to Chrissy


You mean you would spoil up the Bombay flavour with ice cream???






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In reply to Ewart

Bro dem go real well together

In reply to Bigzinc

My Miami sister always comments about the lovely smell of fruits and vegetables in the Caribbean.

Our fruit and veggies really taste better than the crap allyuh eat.
Of course you can get fresh stuff at farmers' markets.

In reply to Chrissy

The Bombay, that is my favorite. I have not had that since maybe 2004.

In reply to Ewart

When the queen visited JA in '66 she was hosted by then GG, Sir Clifford Campbell. The flight over from Britain was long and also marred by horrible weather. The trek from Palisadoes was also arduous as the open air limo provided no protection from the brutal Kingston sun. So after moving slowly for most of the journey so that she could wave to the majesty-struck locals and enduring the pressure of being under Roy Lawrence, she arrived at Kings House in state of complete fatigue.

The queen excused herself and went straight to her quarters to hold a fresh, take a nap and ready herself for supper. And what a supper it was. My grandfather, Aristobull, who attended in his capacity as chief liason between the Crown and the city of Kingston, recounted the tale of the splendour and grandeur of this meal to us dozens of times --- legs of lamb and beef, trays of giant glazed lobsters, massive red snappers stuffed with callallo and shrimp and baked to perfection, capons of all varieties served on trays of gold, plantains and yams and breadfruits, grilled, broiled and roasted ....simply the very best that the farms of the island had to offer.

Elizabeth, Phillip and guests feasted like there was no tomorrow and as the meal came to an end and dishes started to be cleared, the murmurings of dessert began. It was all the wonder how would GG and Lady Campbell top the meal. The head chef at Kings House was renowned but such had been the meal's magnificence that there was genuine fear that the sweets would fall short and thus diminish the evening. What would or could top this .... chocolate cake, plantain tarts, plum pudding .....what ....?

The suspense was heightened even more by a short delay and to fill the time Sir Clifford ordered the band to play adagio while the waiters re-filled everyone's glasses. Whispered rumours re the final course filled the room and the anticipation, due in no small part to the excellence of the main meal, was intense.

Finally it arrived. Plated in twos, on gleaming silver trays and carried on high by a platoon of servers, was the dessert of desserts.

Bombay mangoes, perfectly halved and seeded, each filled with a heaping scoop of ice cream, freshly churned in the great house's kitchen. One half had rum and raisin and the other, cherry vanilla, and the ensemble was completed by a generous slice of ote-eti apple aesthetically placed between the Bombay orbs.

ELizabeth and Phillip stared at their plates and at each other, nervously. Lady C, sensing the problem, identified the items and once the mystery was solved it was, as they say at Caymanas Park when a favourite goes post to post, all over bar the shouting.

The royal couple tucked in and seemed thoroughly to be enjoying when Sir Alexander leaned over and asked the Queen what she thought of her dessert. She replied that it was very sweet and delicious to which he responded, "Yes mi dear ...it sweet like a tullolups".

So doan joke with bombay mango and ice cream, Mr. Ewart .... it is a treat fit for a queen ....and king!

Oh btw .... is a true story dis, doan have no doubts.

In reply to JohnBull

In reply to JohnBull





Great tale, and very well told. I have no doubt of its authenticity. Especially not after Busta and his tullolups!

Truth is... I never aspired to Royalty and would not have encountered any such delights. But the very richness of your prose has convinced me.


Now, Chrissy, Don't forget to hold dem 2 Bombays for me!





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In reply to Chrissy

Don't think I ever had one,maybe did and called it a 'grafted' mango..will do some local research.



In reply to Ewart

Can't fathom how any mango could be better than 'starch' ,'douxdoux','julie' etc..

In reply to bravos


That must be because you never tasted one. Heaven on Earth!





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In reply to pelon

Affi put in a word fuh some ah dem small common breeed mangoes...dem could be real good if yuh get de right tree

In reply to Chrissy

I would love to move back to JA to experience some of that life but, its a pipe dream..I am married now.

In reply to Oilah

True. A nice "Common/Hairy Mango" can be just as good. So many nice varieties of mango.

Remember my dearly departed uncle who had a very huge Bombay tree, of cotton tree proportion, in his yard, mixing the scooped-out Bombay with condensed milk, putting it in that large white enamel mug that was used to make lemonade, "setting" it in the freezer and you had it before it became frozen hard. Was like ice cream. Very nice.

In reply to CWWeekes

Sounds delish but dat must have been sweet to blow wow