On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:59:35PM +0530, Aadisht Khanna wrote:
IIRC, the import of mangoes from India was not permitted in the United
States until last year - I think for health and safety rather than financial
reasons, though I may be wrong about this. The export market for Indian
mangoes
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:59:35PM +0530, Aadisht Khanna wrote:
IIRC, the import of mangoes from India was not permitted in the United
States until last year - I think for health and safety rather than financial
reasons,
The nice himalayan mangoes we're getting here are fake?
If they're being advertised as 'Himalayan', they definitely are fake. The
reason: mangoes are native to tropical climes more prevalent in the
peninsular parts of the Indian subcontinent.
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Sumant Srivathsan
sumants.blogspot.com
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:01:32PM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
The nice himalayan mangoes we're getting here are fake?
Um ... is it even possible to grow mangoes in the himalayas?
At the foothills of. I presumed most of those were indian, but
maybe BASF makes these in Ludwigshafen.
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maybe BASF makes these in Ludwigshafen.
but BASF doesn't make mangoes; they only make them better. :-D
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Sumant Srivathsan
sumants.blogspot.com
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IIRC, the import of mangoes from India was not permitted in the United
States until last year - I think for health and safety rather than financial
reasons, though I may be wrong about this. The export market for Indian
mangoes has traditionally been the
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[1] My favourite are the red ones -- any idea what they're called?
chevazhai? or is it the malai pazham (but that is green-yellow, not red, afaik)
I've also very little experience with real mangoes -- the ones sold
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:10 PM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[1] My favourite are the red ones -- any idea what they're called?
chevazhai? or is it the malai pazham (but that is green-yellow, not red,
afaik)
Aadisht Khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IIRC, the import of mangoes from India was not permitted in the United
States until last year - I think for health and safety rather than financial
reasons, though I may be wrong about this.
It was mostly out of fear of agricultural pests being
There was much fanfare in the newspapers about the start of the trade, but
I've yet to see an
Indian mango for sale. :(
Well, we ain't seen no Harleys either.
Not that it makes things any better, one way or another.
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Sumant Srivathsan
sumants.blogspot.com
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:28 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
out because of the botanical equivalent of incest. i have never eaten or seen
this 'cavendish'.
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp
Bananas aren't about to be swept from the face of the earth by a
deadly pestilence
On 6/19/08 4:58 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the article is a bit presumptuous to assume that its the end of the
banana simply because a variety of banana eaten by americans is dying
out because of the botanical equivalent of incest. i have never eaten or seen
this
Gautam John [19/06/08 10:14 +0530]:
I remember reading a piece that indicated that the sole surviving hope
for the banana was a hundred year old tree in Calcutta or some such.
Long Mista Tallyman, Tally Me Banana ... one more reporter to point to
snopes.com I guess.
On Thursday 19 Jun 2008 2:27:21 pm Biju Chacko wrote:
the Cavendish is the only banana we see in our
markets. It is the only kind that is shipped and eaten everywhere from
Beijing to Berlin, Moscow to Minneapolis.
How true is this in India? I see several different varieties [1]
available
I think the article is a bit presumptuous to assume that
its the end of the
banana simply because a variety of banana eaten by
americans is dying
out because of the botanical equivalent of incest.
I thought all bananas don't undergo sexual reproduction; all members of a
variety are clones.
Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How true is this in India? I see several different varieties [1]
available here. From that perspective, this article seems
unnecessarily alarmist.
India has a wide variety of bananas available because they don't have
to be shipped long distances. Here in
Shyam Visweswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think the article is a bit presumptuous to assume that its the
end of the banana simply because a variety of banana eaten by
americans is dying out because of the botanical equivalent of
incest.
I thought all bananas don't undergo sexual
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I feel deprived. I have never tasted any banana other than a
Cavendish, and I'm reliably told that they're really not very tasty
compared to most other types.
I've also very little experience with real mangoes -- the
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[1] My favourite are the red ones -- any idea what they're called?
I only know of it by its name in Tamil, where it has the rather
obvious name of red banana.
I feel deprived. I have never tasted any banana other than
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