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[kayre]

Tonight a dinner guest and I spent a pleasant hour browsing through the recipe boxes which belonged to my two grandmothers-- two women of very different social circles [though both white and of European origin], but both from Southwest Ohio, and probably accumulating recipes from about 1925 to 1960. We were startled to find that both boxes contained quite a few recipes for mangoes! So likely my parents both grew up eating mangoes, and yet I'm pretty sure I tasted my first when I was in my 30s.

A quick search of the internet reveals an effort to grow them, beginning in the late 1800s, in both Florida and California, but nothing about a decline in the mid 20th century, which my anecdotal evidence might indicate.

Anyone have any other anecdotes, stories, information to satisfy my curiousity?

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[wordweaverlynn]

Are those mangoes as we know them? Because in some areas, including Ohio, green peppers were called mangoes.

[kayre]

I just learned this via comments on Facebook. Now I need to go back through the recipes and see if I can discern what they really are!