I feel this comment acutely.

Love the passion you have for this and you clearly have experience. Mango is my favorite fruit, by far.

I have questions.

*Why should I be shamed for cutting them into skinless squares?

*If I didn’t eat them it with a fork should I still be shamed for cutting mango into skinless squares?

*What is cutting into cups? Sounds like a style of cutting/preparing but also could be just the receptacle you use to hold the mango, so I am confused by the ambiguity.

*It seems that your mango experience is South Asian centric, as you point out, but have you had much experience with Central/South American mangos? If so, how are they different from your preferred mango varietals?

Thank you for the list of mangos I should try. I may have had several of them before as I have travelled through South Asia several times, but alas, it was in the less mango informed days of my youth.

Keep on keeping on, mango buddy!

Yes! When I saw this post the Nokia 7380 was instantly where my mind went. I had the exact same phone, it was rad.

I remember at the time it was referred to as a “lipstick style” case. Loved that thing. I still have it in a box of old electronics somewhere, been thinking about digging it out and seeing if I could get it working again but assumed it wouldn’t on the current cellphone frequencies. I stopped using it when I got the original iPhone at release, so that was 18 years ago I guess. Haven’t not had an iPhone of some variation since.

The simplicity of it is what I always loved about the form factor. Yeah, it sucked for texting but maybe I shouldn’t be writing long texts nowadays anyway. It was fine if you are just replying with a couple words to a text. That reflective one way mirrored screen, real leather and simplicity of the buttons was a great mix of form and function for me at the time.

Your picture didn’t load for me so I am attaching my own;