Mango Cull

[liuzhou]

I've mentioned the nearby city of 百色 (bǎi sè), Baise before. It's a small city on the Guangxi - Yunnan border, famous in China  for a significant part it played in the Chinese Revolution and for being mango central for China. Not far from me and home to some good friends.

 

However, they have a problem. Mangoes.

 

The things grow so prolifically there, they have become a public nuisance and every summer city employees have to go out and cull the juicy bombs which drop on people's heads or turn sidewalks into skating rinks.

 

Here are a few images from social media showing this week's cull.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They'll be back out for several days as more ripen.

 

BTW, they are excellent mangoes!

 

[Tropicalsenior]

5 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

BTW, they are excellent mangoes!

That looks like my backyard during mango season. Unfortunately, these are small, acidy, worm ridden little bombs. We finally got smart and started cutting off all the blooms and now we don't have fermenting mangoes all the time.