I like mangos, but they’re a pain to eat because of the large seed. At first, I peeled the skin off, and then cut the meat from the seed. This was messy. So now I cut it into eighths (i.e., I cut “chunks” off as close as I can to the seed) and then cut the skin off the chunks. But there must be a better way.
What is the “official” method of eating a mango?
haha, never been to Australia?
It’s easy. It’s hard to explain.
But what you do is, get a knife, then cut around from top to bottom and up again. (Hence creating a complete circle running perpendicular (not really perp. but you get the point) to the mangos base. like so > (|) )
Then pop both sides off and cut the mango into a grid, then pop that. Easy.
in the end it should look likethis
OMG there is a guava in that picture. The prophcy is complete.
Nope. I was thinking of going in December, but I lost my job.
I tried to find the edge of the seed, but never could; otherwise, I do make a longitudinal slice all the way around. The halves don’t “pop off”. I still have to cut it into chunks so that I can cut the seed away.
That’s a papaya. (Unless you meant the kimchee)
smam: If you’ve been eating papayas, and not guavas, then getting the seeds out is easy. I slice papayas in half longitudinally. Then I just scoop the mass of purple seeds out with a spoon. To eat a papaya, I like to squeeze lemon juice on it and eat the flesh with a spoon.
There is no need to peel the skin off. First, mango is a fruit that cannot be eaten without no mess at all. You can only minimize the mess. So here’s how it is to be eaten. Wash the mango well - really well. Cut vertical slices of the mango by running the knife from top to bottom and then back up again keeping the blade as close to the seed as possible. What you will get from this is one big circular slice. Since now you will be holding the mango which has already been cut, you might feel this messy. Continue cutting the rest of the mango in longitudinal slices. Cut the first round slice from top to bottom wide enough that you can put it in your mouth. Now you have longitudinal slices, maybe 4 to 6 depending on the size of the mango. Without bothering to peel the skin, open your mouth and slide the slice in your mouth - the slice entering lengthwise - skin side bottom. Bite down on the flesh, sinking your teeth in but not so hard as to severe the skin totally. Slowly pull the slice out, juggling the force on your jaws such that the flesh comes off and the skin is withdrawn. Follow the same procedure with the rest of the slice(s). If the slices are too long, it might be necessary to just bite into the flesh in the middle of the slice while holding the slice ends across the mouth. Finish eating. Throw skins away. Wash hands. Look for another mango.
To answer the OP:
Sorry, for a minute there I thought it looked not unlike a guava or indeed a womans vagina. I stand corrected (since visiting the chiropractor) and stand corrected.
Whew,glad to see I wasn’t the only one.
In concurrence to a comment by wisernow, the first rule for mangos is like the first rule for barbecue: make sure you’re wearing a really old/cheap/ratty shirt. An even-messier-method: pare/peel off half of the skin (if the skin can just peel off the surface, it’s realy, really ripe). Start biting/sucking on naked part of mango, until hitting the pit. Repeat for the other side. Throw away shirt, take bath, floss teeth 
Less messy method, as mentioned before: slice off chunks of the mango flesh from the pit, as if it were a cheese. Then either pare (as if skinning fish) or peel (as with a ripe avocado) the skin off the chunks.
Some mangos are more fibrous than others, this may affect the effectiveness of the various methods. And really, really ripe mangos start kinda liquefying so you may also want to wear cheap/old pants.
Very soon it’ll be mango season here again, and we’ll have mangos out the wazoo. A fully grown mango tree can produce, man! (Hey, I grew up picking guavas and mangos that grew by the side of the frickin’ road. Hence I’m touring the tropical fruit threads today.)
My sister-in-law says that when she was a kid (growing up in India) when the fresh mangos came in, her mom would send all the kids (siblings, cousins, friends) out to the veranda and make them strip down to their underwear. Then she would give them the mangos and leave them to their own devices. When all the mangos were finished, the adults would wash the kiddies from head to toe with a hose.
Mangoes are my all time favourite fruit and unlike guavas I have no trouble seperating the edible from the inedible. No other fruit on earth can compare IMO for the heavenly taste of a ripe mango. Excellent for making smoothies with too.
I usually end up with a seed with still quite a bit of fruit attached which I like to chew.
When my little girl is born in September I am gonna (once she is a bit older) start giving her the seed to suck on. It might help when she is teething.
I’ve found this minimizes the need for flossing later.
A serious word of warning about peeling and eating raw mangoes. wisernow mentions that you need to wash the mango really well; I’ll go further than that. Mangoes belong to the sumac family. Their skin contains an oil, urushiol, also found in poison sumac, poison ivy, and poison oak. And, speaking as someone with unfortunate personal experience, some people are more sensitive to this oil than others–if you’re one of those people and the oil comes into contact with your skin, it causes a really nasty (and really lingering) brace of rashes and itchy, oozing sores. Once the oil attaches to your skin, you can’t wash it off. It’s absolutely awful. I found out the hard way.
So if you cut up mangoes, make sure not only to wash the skin thoroughly, but to wash your hands with soap immediately afterwards. And be very careful when bringing your mouth into contact with meat that might have been in contact with the skin.
I always just cut in a circular fashion (from stem to stern and back) and then take both sides and twist. Then, if it’s ripe enough, take a sharp knife * be very very careful * and smack it in to the seed. Twist a bit and it should pop right out. The same trick works for avocados.
What a coincidence! Yesterday there was an article in my local newspaper on this very topic:
From the South Pacific to the Carribean, when I asked this questions I was always given the same response;
THE best / only way to eat mangoes, is as God intended, standing waist deep in the ocean.
Hey, it always worked for me.
But in restaurants they always came looking like the photo, which may me salivate like Pavlov’s dogs by the way.
Be sure they’re ripe! They turn from a green colour to a yellow/green hue and its much much more easy to twist the flesh off from the seed. And its worth it too 
