For Mango Lovers

[suarezn]

Apparently Bani has a mango festival every year. It looks like fun...now I feel like having a nice juicy Mango Banilejo.

ExpoMango - "Ban: Capital del Mango" - Repblica Dominicana

Some pics from last year's festival.

 

[Hillbilly]

Love mangos...mango juice...almost there...most of the trees have flowered here in Santiago and the buds are forming. Hope the rains don't damage the crop. We have Yamagu?, Banilejo and Enano in our yard....hummmm....

Might take a trip to Bani, too...but that freakin'(for want of a better word!) road scares me....d@mn Butcher's Boulevard...

HB

 

[AZB]

mangos banilejos are the best.
AZB

 

[Yayow]

When in 2009?

Does anybody know when the festival is scheduled for this year?

 

[Drro]

Is it in Bani again? And what part of the island is that? Mangoes are my absolute favorites, especially the red and green ones.

 

[Tamborista]

21 de Junio 2009

 

[Yayow]

Bani

Is it in Bani again? And what part of the island is that? Mangoes are my absolute favorites, especially the red and green ones.

Bani is on the So. Coast of the island about an 40 min drive from Santo Domingo going west. Next major town past San Cristobal.

 

[jcrue20]

i dont like the mangoes here. south east asia have better magoes. LOL!

 

[suarezn]

i dont like the mangoes here. south east asia have better magoes. LOL!

May be (I've never been to south east Asia)...but have you tried ALL the different varieties we have (Santiagueros, Baniejos, Haitianos, etc...) Unless you have you cannot say...

It looks like the festival is from June 18th thru the 21st. I don't think there's any entrance fee or anything like that. I'm sure you can get baskets of Mango for very cheap prices...it's almost Mango time in The DR if not already. I was there about a month ago ant the tree were in full bloom then...

 

[dv8]

first time i read about mango in adventure type book when i was still a child. i imagined it as a cross between an orange (skin and colour) and strawberry (texture of flesh).
i tried mango years later in london, purchased in brixton market. i cannot even describe my dissapointment as i sank my teeth into what i imagine as soft and juicy and what proved to be hard, stinky and full of fibers.
childhood fantasy and reality clash so badly...

 

[Yayow]

I'm leaving on a jet plane!!

i dont like the mangoes here. south east Asia have better mangoes. LOL!

I guess then your next option is to hop on a plane to SE Asia and enjoy their mangoes. If that doesn't seem like a financially feasible thing to do, hop in your car, or a bus to Bani and enjoy some of the inferior mangoes of this region. I would imagine that even an inferior mango is better than no mango at all.

 

[M.A.R.]

OMG the pictures of those mangoes is just DELICIOUS....MMMMM loooove mangoes.......i could eat the peal,its smells soooo good....here in the states you don't get a nice smelling mango.........ahhhh Suarez you are killing me.

 

[Music]

wow.......I never knew

I had no idea there was such a thing. This is for me I absolutley loooooooove mangos, all mangos. I love anything with mango yummy!!
This is one Festival I definatley should attend

 

[suarezn]

first time i read about mango in adventure type book when i was still a child. i imagined it as a cross between an orange (skin and colour) and strawberry (texture of flesh).
i tried mango years later in london, purchased in brixton market. i cannot even describe my dissapointment as i sank my teeth into what i imagine as soft and juicy and what proved to be hard, stinky and full of fibers.
childhood fantasy and reality clash so badly...

Whaaat? Stinky? Hard? It sounds like you tried an unripe mango. Also I wouldn't expect to get great mangoes in The UK, I know the ones you get here in The US are not any good.

I never heard anyone describe mangoes as stinky. Have you smelled a ripe one (like the ones on the pic). They smell delicious (to me at least I guess everyone has their own sense of what smells good or not). They are soft...very, very soft when ripe...as a matter of fact I saw an episode of "real sex" in HBO where they were teaching guys how to perform oral sex on their wifes and they were using mangoes to practice on, because of how soft they are and how much the experience can resemble that...but I digress

I think is time you give mangoes another try...or at least have "youresposo" practice on some of them...:cheeky:

 

[? bient?t]

stinky and full of fibers.
childhood fantasy and reality clash so badly...

Stinky mango? If so, then Michael Jordan sucked at b-ball, the Autobahn's left lane is for tricycles, Edsels are sexy, and I love winter.

Banilejos RULE!

 

[Thandie]

hard, stinky and full of fibers.
childhood fantasy and reality clash so badly...

DV8 you obviously had a bad mango in Brixton.
Have you tried mangos in the DR?

Mangos are my favourite fruit!

 

[hammerdown]

the only good mangos are the fresh ones, especially right off the tree....the ones you get imported into your country are the ones we wouldn't eat here...so that probably why is sucked so bad....when i visited canada last time, with my dominican girlfriend, she bought a mango and thought it was the worst thing she tasted....unless you try them here you don't know what a real mango tastes like....(or the ones from se asia)...or in my opinion anyway

 

[M.A.R.]

Agree.........

the only good mangos are the fresh ones, especially right off the tree....the ones you get imported into your country are the ones we wouldn't eat here...so that probably why is sucked so bad....when i visited canada last time, with my dominican girlfriend, she bought a mango and thought it was the worst thing she tasted....unless you try them here you don't know what a real mango tastes like....(or the ones from se asia)...or in my opinion anyway

...the only and most delicious mangoes are those that you've catch straight from the tree........you gather a few rocks and aim at that beautiful yellow/orange ripe mango at the very top of the tree....mmmm

mango smoothy;

one ripe mango
ice
and one plain yogurt
blend well and serve

 

[ExtremeR]

...the only and most delicious mangoes are those that you've catch straight from the tree........you gather a few rocks and aim at that beautiful yellow/orange ripe mango at the very top of the tree....mmmm

mango smoothy;

one ripe mango
ice
and one plain yogurt
blend well and serve

I've known several people who has gotten serious injuries trying to reach those delicious mangos "alla arriba en el cojollito de la mata".

 

[M.A.R.]

I've known several people who has gotten serious injuries trying to reach those delicious mangos "alla arriba en el cojollito de la mata".

HAHAH NOOOO, WELL I USED to climb as a child, but throwing a rock is no harm, unless there is someone under the tree.