According to the Browns (America Cooks, 1940, p. 115), stuffed
vegetables were called mangoes because there were few mangoes
in America. They theorized:

"Mangoes make good jelly, marmalade, and preserves, but next to
mango chutney the historic favorite is stuffed mango pickles as
made in India and eaten in England.

How the hell do you stuff a mango?

*Sliced* mango pickle is common enough, but usually the skin is thrown
away, which makes creating a stuffable container out of what's left an
interesting exercise. Like making sandwiches with porridge instead of
bread.

I suspect the Browns, whoever they were, never saw a mango either.

You could stuff a bell pepper *with* pickled mango, though I've never
seen it. If something like that ever existed it might explain the US
usage.

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