under the weather

[Graybeard]

We have high temps 35+C coupled with a Mango glut ..... so many mangos that the council wheelie (refuse) bins are overloaded ..... and as the refuse trucks trip the arm at 70kgs ... none of the bins are being emptied.

I'm all 'mango'd out ... even filled the freezer with sliced mango.

cool bananas ... greg

(but the flying foxes are loving it)

[labelwench]

We have high temps 35+C coupled with a Mango glut ..... so many mangos that the council wheelie (refuse) bins are overloaded ..... and as the refuse trucks trip the arm at 70kgs ... none of the bins are being emptied.

I'm all 'mango'd out ... even filled the freezer with sliced mango.

cool bananas ... greg

(but the flying foxes are loving it)

Your 'flying foxes' are fruit bats, Greg, while my vixen with a propensity for leaping from heights is truly of the bushy tailed variety, lol....vulpes vulpes, the red fox common to much of North America, that comes in a number of color variants. I do slightly envy you the glut of fresh mango though....

The grey-headed flying fox, Pteropus poliocephalus, is a fruitbat native to Australia. Members of the genus Pteropus include the largest bats in the world. The Pteropus genus has currently about 57 recognised species. Pteropus is primarily an island taxon, with 55 species having some or all of their distribution on islands. Only nine species are found in continental areas (five in Asia and four in Australia), and only two (Lyle's flying fox Pteropus lylei and the grey-headed flying fox) are restricted to continents.

Diet

Around dusk, grey-headed flying foxes leave the roost and travel up to 50 km a night to feed on pollen, nectar and fruit. The food sources utilised by the species include pollen and nectar from trees belonging to the genera Eucalyptus, Angophora, Melaleuca and Banksia, and fruits from a wide range of rainforest trees, including members of the Ficus genus. Grey-headed flying foxes, along with the three other Australian flying fox species, fulfill a very important ecological role by dispersing the pollen and seeds of a wide range of native Australian plants. The grey-headed flying fox is the only mammalian pollenivore, nectarivore and frugivore to occupy substantial areas of subtropical rainforests and so is of key importance to those forests.

[Graybeard]

Your 'flying foxes' are fruit bats, Greg, while my vixen with a propensity for leaping from heights is truly of the bushy tailed variety, lol....vulpes vulpes, the red fox common to much of North America, that comes in a number of color variants. I do slightly envy you the glut of fresh mango though....

Yes .... and also ..... just as you get 'crying' drunks, and 'singing drunks', and 'agressive drunks' ... so to with the flying foxes.. They are all getting around pissed as newts from the fermented mangos everywhere.

One just attacked three men and they're claiming he was sent mad by the deadly lyssa-virus ... but I reckon its because he was drunk. rotflmao

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and the Mango glut ...

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cool mangos .... greg

[labelwench]

Yes .... and also ..... just as you get 'crying' drunks, and 'singing drunks', and 'agressive drunks' ... so to with the flying foxes.. They are all getting around pissed as newts from the fermented mangos everywhere.

One just attacked three men and they're claiming he was sent mad by the deadly lyssa-virus ... but I reckon its because he was drunk. rotflmao

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and the Mango glut ...

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cool mangos .... greg

Thank you for the links, Greg. Very interesting to hear about the difficulties that can occur when one has 'too much of a good thing.' Unfortunate, also, that there is no easy mechanism in place to capture this surfeit of nutrition and deploy it to areas of the world where people are starving, as mangoes are very nutritious. Certainly they spoil quickly, but canned, frozen or juiced, there would be possibilities.

Is this mango glut an uncommon occurrence, then?

[Graybeard]

Is this mango glut an uncommon occurrence, then?

It happens every now and then, a bumper year, but this one is really big ... prisoners on the work-release scheme are being sent to elderly peoples houses to clear they're roofs and gutters, and clean up their yards. But usually, in order to get your tree to fruit its quite common to drive a few 6" nails into the trunk. This sorta scares the tree into fruiting in large amounts.

In the Northern Territory, where mangos are big business, they have Tractors, with an unusual grip mounted on the front ... these Tractors grip the trunk at the point where it diverges in branches, and then with enormous force, they shake the living shit out of the tree.

This causes the tree to retain all its blossom and fruit very heavily. Just a manipulation of a Natural Selection .... rotflmao.

Last night I ate an 'R2E2' that weighed over a kilo (2.2lbs) for dessert ...I just couldn't stop ... and today I am in agony .... but I have another one for lunch in the fridge ... lol. I am one of those people who will eat anything if it is good ... and pay the consequences later. I never learn .. also .. it is believed (urban myth) that too many Mangos give you boils ... I have never really decided if this is true or not.

R2E2 is a new variety ... 1990 ??? ... and is not so popular amongst all the traditionalists who still favour the 'Bowen' (which the R2E2 is a variety of) and the Bullock Hearts. Mangos are from India originally, I believe ... but most people here believe they are native ...

For my money ... R2E2 leaves all others behind ... and a distant behind ... much more quantity and flavour for your buck ... and beautiful to look at

cool bananas ... greg

[labelwench]

Here is the answer to your 'urban myth' regarding mangoes. Some persons have a sensitivity to the oil Urushiol, which is found in mangoes and these other plants, so not related to quantity eaten.
Aside from the risk of colic, (abdominal pain) you should suffer no lasting deleterious effect from your indulgence, lol...

Urushiol-induced contact dermatitis (also called Toxicodendron dermatitis and Rhus dermatitis) is the medical name given to allergic rashes produced by the oil urushiol, which is contained in various plants, including the plants of the genus Toxicodendron (including poison ivy, poison oak, and poison Sumac), as well as other plants in the family Anacardiaceae (mango, Rengas tree, Burmese lacquer tree, India marking nut tree, and the shell of the cashew nut), and also unrelated plants such as Ginkgo biloba.

[Graybeard]

Here is the answer to your 'urban myth' regarding mangoes. Some persons have a sensitivity to the oil Urushiol, which is found in mangoes and these other plants, so not related to quantity eaten.
Aside from the risk of colic, (abdominal pain) you should suffer no lasting deleterious effect from your indulgence, lol...

I have certainly got severe abdominal pains ... lol .... but i just ate another R2E2 for lunch .... reminds me of the story of Mulla Nasrudin ... who never having seen chillis, bought a huge bag of the 'bright red fruit' for a penny. An unbelievable bargain ....... He started to eat them... and terrible agony ensued ... people passing by told him to stop eating the 'bright red fruit' or he would die. he replied he wasn't eating the fruit any longer, he was eating his penny ...rotflmao

Urushiol-induced contact dermatitis (also called Toxicodendron dermatitis and Rhus dermatitis) is the medical name given to allergic rashes produced by the oil urushiol, which is contained in various plants, including the plants of the genus Toxicodendron (including poison ivy, poison oak, and poison Sumac), as well as other plants in the family Anacardiaceae (mango, Rengas tree, Burmese lacquer tree, India marking nut tree, and the shell of the cashew nut), and also unrelated plants such as Ginkgo biloba.

oooppps ... I am Arab by descent ... and i use Sumac when I am cooking steak all the time

cool bananas ... greg