Mangoes have a black pepper taste to you? I’ve heard of people not liking mangoes but that one is new. If they are unripe they have this kind of tree resin taste/aroma but even that varies across different types.
It’s not exactly black pepper. It’s like mangoes and black pepper share a something, and that’s enough to remind me of black pepper, if that makes sense.
This does mean I like it enough as an ingredient - for example, I would eat mango salsa.
Now I want to gather as many different mangoes as possible, pig out on them, and try to experience this for myself. So far I don’t think I know of anything with a taste I would associage with black pepper other than itself. Same with white. The red pepper variety that makes your mouth numb made me feel like I was almost reminded by something else, but I could never figure it out.
I’m also kind of wondering if anyone has done much research on how taste works for different people or different animals. I remember the tastes being associated with different zones on the tongue being taught in school which turned out to be bullshit.
I got very addicted to eating dragon fruit pretty much every day when I was in Vietnam. Sadly the ones I can get here in the UK are expensive and insipid, but I’m going to keep on throwing my money away in the vain hope of finding a good one.
Dragon fruit have to fully ripen on the cactus. The tendril or dragon scale like bits will start to brown and that’s my favourite time to pick at least. The yellow kind I just guess because they don’t have those. They don’t ripen after being picked and will taste like dirt if picked early. If you have the climate or maybe greenhouse you can grow them by planting them in a pot held up at 8 ft or higher with the cactus segments dangling down. The fruit grow from the hanging parts. I still have a bunch but they need more nutrients to fruit any more and I’ve been too lazy to go outside to buy the fertilizer. Also post lockdown anxiety.
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