>>Hilah: Hey look!
Here’s a mango.
Do you know one things that’s cool about mangos is that they evolved like thousands
of years ago to feed like humongous animals that are no longer in existence.
They’re extinct, not extant.
I’m going to show you how to cut this up around the giant pit that used to get crunched
up by big mammoth molars.
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[How To Cut Up a Mango]
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>>Hilah: Okay, so here’s our friendly little friend the mango, so the deal is there’s
this giant kind of flattened pit in here that takes up approximately like the middle third
of the fruit, so you just kind of like estimate about a third of the way in. . . .bloop! and
choke off that little mango cheek.
See the big mango cheek, and then what do you do with this part because the skin tastes
gross.
I don’t want to eat it like that.
This is how you do it.
You very, very carefully not cut all the way through the skin like I just did a little
bit.
I almost cut myself.
Yikes!
Don’t do that!
Okay, so just kind of gently cutting into the flesh and like, little scoring it like
that, and then you pop it inside out.
Look how adorable that is, and if you wanted to you could probably turn that into a little
mango porcupine thing for a baby or something.
Okay, so then you cut off the little chunkies that are sticking up, just like so, and totally
perfect little cubes and/or pyramids of mango.
See, ha!
Look at that!
Adorable!
Oh wait!
But what about this part?
I got so distracted with the cute little chunks I almost forgot.
So, I like to just kind of peel it off like this and um, when I was a kid my mom would
just like give us this thing to like chew on, and we would fight about who got to chew
on it more, so you could do that, you could totally just give it to a child to chew on,
or you can peel it like that and kind of cut into it at an angle to get all the last little
bits of mango flesh.
It’s not going to be adorable cubes.
It’s definitely going to be delicious flesh like that.
Yay!
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