On 18 Sep 2004 15:17:58 GMT, (John213a) wrote:

Mango: Ha! You thought it was a tropical fruit. For some weird reason,
a lot of folks around Bloomington and Terre Haute use this word to
describe a green pepper. BRBR

yes, it really confused me when in Indiana, I first heard my mother-in-law ask
me to pick her some "mangos" for the salad 26 years ago a few months after my
wife and I were married. I am from NJ and didn't have a clue about tropical
fruit or why she would want it for a salad. They are in the Muncie area. Any
idea how that came into "indiana speak"?
Then you can imagine my horror when I was travelling in Ohio, and the
people I was staying with were talking about ordering a pizza.
Debating the choices of toppings, quite a few votes were for
"mangoes"- I couldn't imagine anything more unappealing on a pizza :-P
.. I was assured they were delicious- well, I don't like mangoes (the
fruit kind) at the best of times and was pretty sure I wasn't going to
like them any better on a pizza (what a desecration!) I was
pleasantly surprised when the pizza arrived to find they meant
capsicum peppers. I was always puzzled as to how they came to be
referred to as "mangoes".
CJ