Oh boy! The market is now well and truly flooded with dusheri mangos - little ones, big ones green ones, yellow ones, grreenish yellow ones etc. But I still have not been won round to these much-praised, slender mangos. They have a a fragrance and flavour that I can't pin down and for some reason don't like. Never mind there are still some safedas in the market and today I saw the first chaunsas.
Also, when I went to the fruit shop I have begun to frequent, there was another pile of mangos next to the pie of dusheries and safedas. They were small and a uniform lemon yellow in colour with a blunt shape. When I asked about them the owner smiled and took one and began massaging with his fingers till the whole mangos was soft, then he washed the end and gave it to me, telling me to rip the stalk end off and suck out the pulp. Wow! what an experience - it tasted not unlike a dusheri but the sensation of squeezing the pulp out like you would toothpaste from a tube was quite a strange one!. Then when no more of the thick, saffron coloured juice could be coaxed through the tear in the top I did as the owner of the shop was encouraging me to and squeezed the stone fully out and slurped off the remaining goodness! When I asked what it was called the owner, who'd been standing next to me watching me intently all the way through this process, beamed and told me the were dingas (pronounced ding-ga) from Lucknow. I'd heard about this kind of mango but never tried it however when it came time to buy the mangos I decided to stick to my trusty safedas! I tried to find some pictures on the net but so far nothing great has been turned up, though I did find this quite informative site and this site which shows the kind of debating that goes on over the relative merits of different varieties!
