Hawaiian Mango, on its Way to Being Eaten Before Entering the Airport

Fri 05.22.09 - Joe Hernandez purchased the above mango at a farm stand on Oahu's North Shore two days ago. A kindly USDA Agricultural inspector at the Honolulu Airport let me sit outside the security check point and eat my mango rather than throwing it away. He also told me that its varietal name was the 'haiti mango' and that in his opinion the best mango in Hawaii.

Even though the mango was only half ripe, it was already full of mango flavor, quite sweet, and marvelously tangy with very few fibres. While it was half ripe, this Hawaiian mango definitely beats last week's fully ripe Mexican mango.