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You poor dear! I don't know what to say to advise you on how to salvage your yoghurt-y lassi. You have all the sympathy that I am capable of mustering for one who is in such a predicament.
Could be worse, though. I recall your last culinary disaster featured some cheap, gristly sausages.
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quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: Hey, anyone here ever had a mangosteen? Fahim's family calls them mangos, pronounced identically to, well, mangos, which we also eat here.
And then they wonder why I get so confused...
Yeah, I've wondered why mangosteens are called that, when they're so different from mangos. Maybe mango is a generic term meaning fruit, the way pom is in French? I'll have to look it up.
In any case, mangosteens aren't allowed in the US, because they can harbor the larva of a type of fly that, were it to start breeding in the US, would apparently wreak havok on US fruit crops.
This doesn't stop Jungle Jim's from carrying something that they call a mangosteen, even though it doesn't look anything like a real mangosteen.
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quote:mango 1582, from Port. manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil mankay, from man "mango tree" + kay "fruit." Mango trees were brought from Timor to British gardens in Jamaica and St. Vincent 1793 by Capt. Bligh on his second voyage.
There is no entry for mangosteen, but according to dictionary.com, the etymology of mangosteen is
quote:Malay manggista, mangustan, variant of manggis
So is manggis a word of Tamil origin? I'm wondering if "man" actually means "mango tree", or if it just means "fruit tree". Jon Boy, any help? I'm a bit out of my depth, I'm afraid.
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Oh, and I should add that I think they shorten mangosteen to mango because it's, well, shorter, and for no other good reason. Bad reasons, though, include confusing me whenever possible. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Tamil word for fruit is pahlum. Like plum with an extra vowel, first syllable rhymes with tall.
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I tried to make mango lassis once with very frightening results. I'm not sure what I did wrong. I followed the recipe exactly.
No amount of sugar could make it better. The only thing that made it better was pouring the vile concoction down the garbage disposal and hoping it didn't come back as a zombie lassi.
The best part was the look on my husband's face when he took a sip and I could tell he was debating two options: expelling the substance ASAP and scraping his tongue (thus risking my ire or hurt feelings) or actually consuming the lassi (thus risking death or severe gastric disturbance).
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That's what I like to believe (instead of I can't follow the simplest of directions). I haven't tried again since. I've been too traumatized.
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It's a simple recipe, and I refuse to believe that you could have screwed it up. What's in it - yoghurt, fruit, sugar, maybe milk or water. Unless you put in salt instead of sugar or baking soda instead or some other ghastly mistake like that - which I doubt - then it has to be either yoghurt or fruit. Seriously, you can type easily understood sentences, therefore you can read recipes.
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It doesn't taste of mango.
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