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SPEAKER 1: These mangoes are so huge. Not very good. They’re fairly tasteless.

Have you had Anwar Ratols? I don’t know what you call them in India, but, they’re small and have a very—really strong aroma. And we usually cut them. I mean, we usually suck them because they’re too small to cut. Those are my favorite ones.

It’s so funny. My mother used to always have an Anwar Ratol lying in her plate while she was eating her normal meal. And she’d take a bite of the mango, and a bite of her food. And I just could never understand it. You know, the concept of having a savory and sweet food together. So odd.

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SPEAKER 2: You know, I remember all these afternoons in my grandmother’s house. All of us cousins used to get together in the afternoons after lunch, and have buckets of mangoes just piled up. And everyone, of course, would be just gorging down mangoes.

And this one cousin of ours who was a bit naive, my brother always used to tell her that the more you chew your gutli and the more you suck it clean, the more mangoes you’ll get. And of course, while she was doing it everyone would have her share, like, everyone would have three mangoes. With such nice memories attached to it. And very often it used to be raining.

I really always think of summer every time I have mangoes.

You know, my mother wanted to send me a crate of mangoes through this cousin of mine who’s coming here, and the customs people here, just don’t allow it. It’s such a disappointment.

SPEAKER 1: I know. I’ll hopefully be going home in August. So I’m hoping to get some good mangoes.

SPEAKER 2: So how many mangoes do you get in—sort of mangoes you get in Pakistan?

SPEAKER 1: I think we have about five, five main. What about India?

SPEAKER 2: I think we have about six.

SPEAKER 1: Actually, I think Pakistan also has six or seven different types.