Drunk from Mangos
The other night I decided to have a mango and started eating one, but found it to be overripe that I had to toss it away. Not satisfied with only having a couple bites of the extremely ripe mango, I proceeded to try another one. This too was a bit ripe, but not as bad as the first one and good enough to eat entirely.
The mangos I bought are the small yellow variety. They are usually sweet and less thready than the red and green ones. I like mangos and anything that is mango-flavored, but don't eat them much because I find them quite messy. Without fail, the juices from the mango usually end up all over my hands and roll down to my elbows. I only buy mangos when I'm in the mood to, which is not often. That's why I prefer the dried mango since it's not messy and tastes like candy.
Now I know this sounds crazy, but I swear that after I ate the mango my face got really warm and was pink like I had just had some alcohol. It wasn't hot in my place at all and the only thing I could think of is those mangos. Could it be possible that they were so ripe they began to ferment? Wow, that would be wild. I got a buzz from eating ripe mangos.
Yes,this is true. Don't you see people making wine from over ripe apple or other fruit? Beware not to eat over ripe fruits. This had happened to me once too.
This reminded me of a program on the nature channel I saw way back, which was about monkeys in the wild. They mentioned that the monkeys would purposely let fruit overrippen on the trees before eating them. The monkeys would then eat and get drunk off the overripen fruit. I thought the clip they showed was hilarious since the monkeys were drunk and would occasionally fall out of the trees.
huh?! Really??? You'll have to eat a lot of it though to get drunk, right? It's not like you can get drunk from one or two ripe mangos. I find that hard to believe, but everything's possible.
For what it's worth, some people also have a strong allergy to the skins of mangoes.