Good work here.

Well done for this month.

Ha! Thanks, Train.

You're welcome.

"What if I just stand here and sniff it?"

Is that the same technique for persimmon-snatching?

No, persimmon snatchers bite the fruit and run away, leaving it mangled and unappetizing.

Which is more important to a Trinny:

(a) Cricket
(b) Football
(c ) Juicy, ripe mangoes

This is the sort of information modern man needs to know.

(An equivalent for my particular part of New England would be:

(a) Red Sox baseball
(b) Patriots football
(c ) Celtics basketball
(d) UConn womens' basketball
(e) Dunkin' Donuts coffee
(f) Pizza [or "apizza" to certain hard-core types]
(g) Lobster roll

We've got more complications up here than you lads down there. Then again, you also have far better weather.)

I can't believe there wasn't (h) CHOWDA! One food to rule them all!

It's a surprisingly interesting question regarding chowder.

My part of Connecticut (southern Middlesex County) is not a big chowder area. To be sure, restaurants serve it here, in one of the three main types of clam chowder: New England (cream-based), Manhattan (tomato-based) and Rhode Island (clear-broth). There's also shrimp and corn chowder, and corn chowder, as well.

The areas that take chowder (or, as you note, "Chowdah!" in the traditional New England argot) very seriously are Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and coastal Maine. To the point where Manhattan clam chowder (see above) is denigrated as being a bastardization of perfection. You'll even get some that say that Rhode Island style is not a true chowder. Which is a sign of seriousness in chowderology.

The line between chowder and bisque can be a blurry one; one hears of lobster bisque, but I've never seen lobster chowder, at least in coastal Connecticut. it might well exist elsewhere, for all I know.

A and B as long as there's food and alcohol.

C depends very strongly on the type of mango (although if roti is a food item, curry mango (curried mango) or mango chutney is a must.

I have a recipe lurking about that features mango, mixed with lime juice, a little sugar, and cream; it gets blended together and poured into glasses, then whole blueberries are folded in and the whole thing is topped with bits of lime zest.

It's a good thing I don't like Mangoes. (Except Dried, or ice cold on a hot, hot day.)

Me? They're OK. My mother loved them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ2bIT7W6iY

Heh...

No worries, I'm allergic to mangoes. They make my throat close up.

Oh dear.

Thanks for that revelation. Now I have an idea as to how people from Trinidad and Tobago speak.

I should do more. This pic is the tip of the iceberg (so to speak).

Back when I could talk, I was a student of accents. At last count, I could do 15 different accents. Now, I'm lucky to be understood when I speak normally.