[Sca-cooks] OOP - Green Peppers and Mangoes

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> In a message dated 12/30/2004 11:29:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> kingstaste at mindspring.com writes:
>
> <<The word ‘mango’ is used in some areas to refer to green  peppers or
> stuffed green peppers. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois
> and Missouri are all states that I have received e-mails about
grandparents,
> parents and even current usage of ‘mango’ for green  pepper.>>
>
> Interesting.
> I've lived my entire life in south eastern and south central Pennsylvania,
> as have both my parents and a number of my other relatives, and I have
NEVER
> heard stuffed green peppers referred to as anything other than stuffed
peppers
> (and at least in my house they got stuffed with a mixture of browned
ground
> beef  and cooked rice), nor green peppers as anything other than either
green
> or bell  peppers.  Never ever heard them referred to as "mangos".
> The first time I ever saw or ate a mango (the real kind) was several years
> after I graduated from college and had moved to Lancaster; one of my
roommates
> used to buy them periodically.
>
> Brangwayna

Are you in a rural area, surrounded by country folks? It was very common in
SE Ohio- I was intriqued by "home grown mangos" until I found out exactly
what nasty things they were referring to. It wasn't an exclusive term-
people who called them mangos recognized what I meant when I referred to
them as bell peppers or green peppers, but their word of choice for them was
mango.

Saint Phlip,
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