Fumie's dad brought some Mangos from Malaysia today (quite illegally, I might add -- bad Daddy, bad!).

We were warned not to touch them, as some people apparently have some kind of painful skin reaction to mangos (including Fumie's dad, very apparently). We used Saran Wrap to hold it while we peeled it, then ate the fruity flesh with a fork. It was quite tasty... much more musky than the normal store-bought Mango I've had in the US or Japan, perhaps because they were picked ripe, not ripened on a boat during shipping.

I thought the warnings about skin reactions seemed a little farfetched, but it didn't take much searching to find out that Mango is in the same family as Poison Ivy (along with, oddly enough, the cashew tree). It can be quite painful, if you're allergic.

There's a nice page on it in the wikipedia. There's more than anyone will likely ever want to know about the mango on a page at the University of Georgia.