Good afternoon everyone


I stopped at the supermarket on the way home from work. I used the self check out, but was right next to a "manned" cashier and over heard the following conversation between two store employees.


Employee 1: I like pineapple soda. It's my favorite

Employee 2: I like pineapple too, but mango flavor is my favorite. I like anything mango flavored except mangoes, because I don't like the bone.

I was a history major, so I do not claim expertise in biology, but....

mmmmm....mangos

Hmmm - no bone here....

Does that mean there's no bones in ice cream, either??

Those bastards LIED to me!

What you have never gotten choked on a mango bone? That was so funny I am going to use that as my new saying for the day. Well that so "choke me on a mango bone".

Like most fruits, mangoes originally had bones to support their outer structures.

Scientists and food researchers have, in just the last hundred years or so, developed methods of producing what we now know as "boneless fruits" across virtually the entire fruit spectrum.

This results in a better and more convenient source of nutrition for all of us.

Boneless fruit contains more actual "fruit content" and is therefore healthier, not to mention easier, than eating the bone would have been.

These scientists and food researchers are the unsung heroes of today's fruit industry.

These same technologies, expanded into other areas, have given us many other useful items, such as the bagless vacuum cleaner and the cordless phone.

I believe there are bones in Porterhouse steak ice cream.

DO PINEAPPLES GROW ON PINE TREES????????

Oh, well, okay then. That's different.

You place a pine tree and an apple tree in the same hole and then you get ....

Aww man! And all these years, I've been calling the crust..."pizza bones"...

I dont like lizard heads

I had a mango tree in my yard. The fruit tastes like a cross between a peach and an orange (to me). And there is a huge "seed" pod inside the fruit that the pulp sticks to (much like the peach pulp sticks to the peach pit).

I was so amazed by the size and texture, etc. of the seed that I let it dry on the window sill and I saved it. It's kind of football shaped and dries to a texture much like a bone (like a wishbone).

Anyway, that may be where they got that expression referencing the bone.

Although I love all the awesome responses and jokes about it, I thought I'd let you in on the facts. I still have the dried seed (or bone) somewhere around here -- I was that intrigued by it.

Now, if I could just figure out one burning question, "where did my Mango?"