Vittles 6.11 - Mangoes

The Pleasure and Politics of Eating Mangoes, by Apoorva Sripathi

There was a meme floating around last year of seven or eight interlocking hands, labelled ‘Indian’, ‘Pakistani’, ‘Filipino’, ‘ Jamaican’, ‘Nigerian’, ‘Thai’, ‘Colombian’ all coalescing around the word ‘mango’. The love that people have for the mango is quite extraordinary — I can’t think of another food item that inspires so much ardour, so much bad poe…