We had bathtubs (old building with colonial vestiges, and later for kids) but I don’t want to think about what anyone would be doing with a mango to need to sit in one, lol.
The reference may be to J B S Haldane:
About your mango; you can eat it quite safely, if you just wait a moment while I enchant it so that it won’t splash over you.
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Mr Leakey ate a pear, and gave me the other five mangoes to take home. But I had to eat them in my bath because they weren’t enchanted.
@JenKalb @erica1 Alphonsos have to go through a whole process (including irradiation) to come into the US, which does affect them. I used to get a direct delivery of 6 or 12 every season from India, and those were a lot better than the store ones. Expensive, but not that much more than fancy Asian pears, for eg, or specialty Japanese fruit. (And if there was bad fruit in the batch, they refunded per piece.)
