Why Indian mangoes are better than Pakistani ones

[he-man]

my favourite

 

[Soumitra]

Some Famous Pakistani Mangoes
Anwar Retol

Langra

Dusehri

Chaunsa

Totapuri

Koonj

Langda, dussheri, chausa, tota puri all are Indian mangoes

 

[KAL-EL]

Are Mangoes from India and Pakistan really all that much different? One sweeter than another? The texture?

 

[Pakistanisage]

Yet there's one point which we can all agree about: those South Asians who claim not to be fond of mangoes are to be pitied.

I am reminded of Ghalib's famous Joke about People who don't Mangoes.


Ghalib was sitting outside his house eating Mangoes. He was accompanied by a close friend who did not care much for Mangoes. As Ghalib ate his mangoes he kept tossing the leftovers and the seed to his Jackass who sniffed it and moved away.

Ghalib's friend said " Look Asad, even a Jackass does not like Mangoes"

To which Ghalib retorted famously " he does not like mangoes, BECAUSE he is a JACKASS "

I am very fond off Mangoes so I will have to come to India in the Summer to make up my own mind as to which country has better Mangoes.

Indian mangoes are the best. Even the Anwar Ratol mango the pride of Pakistanis is originally an Indian Mango variety from UP in India.

It does not matter where they originated. It is about where the best of the best are Presently...

Are Mangoes from India and Pakistan really all that much different? One sweeter than another? The texture?

You Betcha...

Mate, when it comes to Mangoes, PAKISTAN RULZ....

 

[RAMPAGE]

I am very fond off Mangoes so I will have to come to India in the Summer to make up my on mind as to which country has better Mangoes.

Nothing beats Pakistani Sindhri !!!!

Which type is your favorite ???

 

[Pakistanisage]

Nothing beats Pakistani Sindhri !!!!

Which type is your favorite ???

I am Mangoholic...

Like Ghalib said " Give me Sweet Mangoes and Lots of them "

I like them all, Anwer Ratoole, Desehri, Sindhri, Chausa , Langra...

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

my personal favourite is Sindhri Mango..I wish i could get some in UK. Our mangoes may be too sweet for foreigners and they may not like it as every person has differnt taste

what is best is very much subjective thing so dont start mango war..our mango and rice are best

 

[B+ Dracula]

Langda, dussheri, chausa, tota puri all are Indian mangoes

Above You Quoted are Famous Kinds of Mangoes....Available in both Pak/India
Someone said back Pakistan have 400 & India have 12000 Varieties of Mangoes......WHO DAMN CARES!!!!
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No one in the whole planet or Even the MANGO FARMERS have had tasted "1 2 0 0 0" varieties of Mangoes....

365 days = year
12000 mango/365 days = 32.87 (Light Years it takes to taste them all)

There's a Competition between TOP 10 FOR FINAL ROUND BATTLE

 

[kingkobra]

Have tasted hundreds of mango varieties but nothing even came close to Alphonso..King of the fruits....

Would like to taste pakistani mango though...where can i taste one in mumbai?

 

[jaunty]

Are Mangoes from India and Pakistan really all that much different? One sweeter than another? The texture?

I don't think so. Most Pakistani mango types are also available in India. In fact most of them originated in India. India also have a lot more other varieties. I have to admit that I haven't tasted any Pakistani mango, but I would be very surprised if they turn out to be different.

 

[The Archnazi]

My kind of guy.


Fair skinned and martial race Pakistani mango will win. 10 Indian Mangoes = 1 Pakistan Mango.

lolz...

Bangladeshi Langra are definitely the best with the most brix content in any variety. We also have excellent Amropali.

langra is an Indian variety

 

[Thorough Pro]

Bandar ki janay bair di bund kithay!

Why Indian mangoes are better than Pakistani ones
The explosive case for mango nationalism.
Shivam Vij · 2 days ago

I am telling nothing but the truth when I tell you that Indian mangoes are better than Pakistani mangoes. It infuriates me when Pakistanis don't agree. That makes mangoes an India-Pakistan dispute just like Kashmir. Like a good Indian, I don't think this needs a referendum. Of course our mangoes are better. How could anyone even think that isn't the case?

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against Pakistan. I am a card-carrying member of the candle-light-at-Wagah-border club. I think India and Pakistan should make love not war. I am all for solving Kashmir, demilitarising Siachen, ending terrorism, increasing trade ties, visa on arrival and so on. Since I have zero interest in cricket, India-Pakistan matches fail to arouse any anti-Pakistan sentiment in me. Pakistan is a place where I have my roots and some very dear friends. Yet there is this little thorn between us: their claim that their mangoes are better.

What annoys me further is that there are Pakistanis who claimed to have tasted Indian mangoes and still think Pakistani mangoes are better. The problem with such Pakistani mango lovers is that they are Pakistanis first and mango lovers second. Which is not to say I have tasted Pakistani mangoes. Why would I do that when I get to eat the world's best mangoes? India has over 1,200 varieties of mangoes, Pakistan only 400.

Pakistani mango nationalism is not limited to Pakistanis. The Pakistani government uses it too. Almost every year the Pakistani government sends a box of mangoes to the Indian prime minister and sometimes the president and top ministers too. Under the guise being thoughtful, they are actually conducting subconventional warfare against our egos. It is practically a way of saying that Pakistani mangoes are better. Killing the enemy with sweetness! The Indian government's silence on this is most unacceptable.

The most famous Pakistani mango is known as Anwar Ratol. Half of Pakistani mango nationalism is based on the claim that Indians haven't tried the Anwar Ratol. It is as if Partition was a conspiracy by the Clifton-Defence-Bahria elites to retain the privilege of the Anwar Ratol. What most Pakistanis don't know is that the Anwar Ratol has its roots in a village two hours from Delhi, in what is now Baghoat district of western Uttar Pradesh. The village is called Ratol, and its first Ratol tree is just over a hundred years old. Many years before Partition, a mango grower from Ratol migrated to what is now the Pakistani part of Punjab and named a sprig he'd transplanted there after his father, Anwar.

So the mango on whose basis Pakistanis claim their mango superiority, even that is from India. Doesn't that settle the India-Pakistan mango debate?

In 1981, Zia ul Haq sent Anwar Ratols to Indian President Sanjeeva Reddy and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. A week later, the angry citizens of Ratol went to Indira Gandhi and presented her a box of the original Ratol mangoes. Seven years later, the case of mangoes that exploded with Zia were probably Anwar Ratols from Bahawalpur.

Having established in my head that Indian mangoes were thus better than Pakistani ones, I wondered why this was so important to me? How could I call myself post-nationalist and believe in mango nationalism?

Discussing the issue of mangoes with several people gave me the answer. I realised that even within India people fight over which mango is the best. There's a great Delhi-Bombay divide over the Alphonso. The expensive Alphonso, we north Indians feel, is over-rated. It is too sweet, too perfect.

My favourite mango is the Dasheri. I grew up in Lucknow and because the Dasheri orchards of Malihabad are next door, the markets are flooded with Dasheri every summer. When I went to Ratol and tasted its signature mango, I felt it was like a better version of the Dasheri. But I censored the thought lest I betray my loyalty to the Malihabadi Dasheri. There lies the answer. Mangoes are such a part of our childhood memory that the mangoes we grew up with define who we are. We are the mangoes we eat. Anyone claiming that another mango is superior is assaulting our very being. That is why, I realised, I took such strong objection to the Pakistani claim of their mangoes being better, or for that matter the Bombay arrogance about Alphonsos.

Yet there's one point which we can all agree about: those South Asians who claim not to be fond of mangoes are to be pitied.

Indian source: Scroll.in - News that matters

pakistani source: Indian mangoes are the best – The Express Tribune

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Another Epic Mango thread !

 

[asad71]

Langra Mango is native to Varanasi in India, Amrapali was also developed in India. Tell us about any native mango variety from East Bengal.

I doubt that claim is totally correct. Mangoe really did not originate from one particular location. FYI,the Battle of Palassy was fought in only one corner of a mangoe grove.

 

[IndoUS]

Are Mangoes from India and Pakistan really all that much different? One sweeter than another? The texture?

Think of it this way, its like the Barbecue competition that happens in the south, every body says theirs is the best.

 

[Pandora]

I would like to taste few Pakistani mangoes... I was lucky to taste few Indian mangoes from my college and facebook contacts....

Pakistani mangoes might cost you your life savings and life but bananas come for free.