Everyone makes Mango Salsa now, what is their problem?

So sick of mango salsa everywhere. Not just at mexican places, but thai places too, and on island food where it really doesn't belong, like jerk chicken. Mango salsa is boring and terrible and overwhelms good flavors and I feel like either in ten years everything will be served with mango salsa or people will look back at it with confusion, like savory jello molds.

i'm actually not crazy about mango salsa? i feel like the flavors don't really go together that well.

people will look back on it with confusion, like savoury jello molds........time to die

i'm against mango salsa.

I don't know, guys. My mango/avocado salsa is pretty delicious. But yeah, sometimes you want a tomato-based salsa.

all salsas are welcome en mi casa.

mango salsa is pretty whack but seems like more of a 90s thing?

mango salsa is what people put on their blackened chicken iirc

chipotle blackened chicken

i don't think one can categorically dismiss mango salsa since it can be made all kinds of different ways

otm

and all of those ways are delicious.

I love mango salsa

also, it's "wack", ian, like your dislike of mango salsa

green mangos or gtfo

It's good on chips. It's definitely one of those foods that, like ketchup, makes whatever you use it on taste mostly like itself.

Mango salsa is bullshit but I like a lot of bullshit foods.

real talk

peach salsa >>>>>>>> mango salsa

I had the misfortune of being given "fruit salsa" - no shit it was assorted berries, chunky pieces of apple etc with jalapenos mixed into it like a pretentious fucking fruit salad and it was the stupidest thing I ever had. I was expected to eat it with tortilla chips like a complete tit

Mango salsa is far less dumb by comparisom.

I love mango salsa

also, it's "wack", ian, like your dislike of mango salsa

― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, March 17, 2013 1:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol sonned

Fuck syrupy sweet salsa. This thread hits hard on fundamental issues of today

see as soon as you assume mango salsa has to be "syrupy sweet" i know you've never had a good version of it

Avocado based salsa is the future

if you use the right mango it'll be more sweet-tart to begin with, then you add lots of sour/salty/spicy ingredients, then you've got a condiment that's actually interesting

I don't want to dip my chips in dole fruit salad singles

mango salsa needs a lot of red onion and some jalapenos

I stick a lot of cilantro in but I'm not gonna get into that fight here

A cilantro filled mango salsa is the worst thing I can even imagine

"if you use the right mango it'll be more sweet-tart to begin with, then you add lots of sour/salty/spicy ingredients"

see this is starting to sound like a mango chutney, which is great.

now you're just being racist

Agreed. We must draw the line and condemn what's on the wrong side of it.

Xpost

90% of food with mango I see I feel "this isn't real food, this is just something you made up."

like many foods it has been combined with other foods

I love mango. Just keep it out of my salsa and we can be friends.

I like pineapple in guacamole though so I don't even know

mango salsa is everywhere = applebee's is the worst!!

pineapple in guac

dude wtf

sterlsy, you don't have to listen to these people.

99% of mango salsa is horrible. especially if it contains raw onion + cilantro.

I have no gripe with mango itself. I have a problem with mango as an all-purpose 'fusion' ingredient for casual-dining purposes.

this def feels like a miserable fancy-cuisine thing that trickled down to avg. food.

pork belly sliders to start. fish tacos with mango salsa. liquid lava cake bullshit for dessert.

We are all merely puppets or stooges in the grip of The Mango Trust.

maybe the problem is you're going to places that you don't like and are paying them for food just the same

sliders! ugh!

dylann otm

^^^

I like pineapple in guacamole though so I don't even know

― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, March 17, 2013 12:22 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ban sufjan grafton

i can sort of see pineapple in guacamole, like... what it would do, a bit of tart-sweetness playing off the spice and sour, cutting through the creaminess of the avocado. but i feel like it's a big risk to take.

another factor here is that with pineapple and mango ESPECIALLY MANGO and most other fruit, it's hard to find good examples in the average north american supermarket. many of these preparations sound particularly unappealing if one imagines them made with those beefheart-sized stop sign red grocery store mangoes or everripe perfect cylinder dole pineapples.

My Indian friend traumatized me with these tiny, rock-hard, undigestible green mangoes. He claimed they were his favorite treat, but I think he may have been fucking with me.

I defy any of you to dislike a combo of mangoes, avocados, jalapenos, white onions, cilantro (optional), texas pete, olive oil, salt & white vinegar

(though I prefer the above with peaches)

love mangos

mango-mint guacamole, big fan

everybody makes mango salsa now, what is the problem?

i'm fine with mango salsa esp if it's made with habaneros and used on fish tacos. otherwise not interested

there's a sort of terrible place in downtown l.a. where the only thing i "enjoy" during times of desperation (late work nights) are their mediocre salmon tacos, which come with a mango salsa that i inevitably regret using almost as much as i regret actually buying the tacos.

Salmon as taco fish? Mango salsa? You buy these from the dumpster behind a diner? Do they come in a blue box?

haha, no doubt.
salmon for tacos sounds weird to me (but I guess it's a thing). esp since most places are gonna use crappy fatty farmed Atlantic salmon so they don't kill a budget. mango with salmon doesn't sound very delicious either. I don't see one particularly complimenting the other. for fish tacos I think choices like cod, rockfish or something like mahi would be my killer

I thought the point of mango salsa on fish tacos is you're using tilapia which has no real flavor

This brings me to a good question, what even is a defensible kind of fish to eat anymore? I've lost track of what different things the same fishes are called and which ones are regulated/endangered populations/etc and which aren't.

i won't eat tilapia no matter what sauce you attempt to drown it in.

well, as NPR has told me, the endangered population regulation is pretty much horseshit. any fish that is borderline needs only a plan that the fishing industry will get their shit together within five years to be marked sustainable. so basically, a bunch of sustainable fish could be caught to the point of extinction as long as it's within that timeframe

brb going to eat all the fatty tuna left on the planet

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/science/earth/02tilapia.html

lol @ “Think about it: if we tried to get beef from hunting, there would be a lot of hungry people.”

Yes, only the bravest dare hunt the wild cattle, shy by nature and easily startled but violent when roused.

lol, cows are so dumb

my neighbor across the street is way into hunting and fishing. pretty much every time he goes for a weekend trip or vacation, it's some sort of hunting/fishing thing. I haven't been in his house, but apparently the back room has an issue where he had too many heads mounted on the wall and needed to find more space because they were almost touching in the corners.

About six months before I moved here, apparently he had been "buffalo hunting" at a friend-of-friend's place with free range buffalo. Unfortunately, hunting involved driving a skid loader out into the field, shooting a nearby buffalo, and then scooping it up. Apparently when he shot the buffalo, the other ones wondered what the noise was and went over to investigate.

:(

tilapia taste like **ckin' dirt (moreso than catfish which i can live with). dirt has a nasty flavor.

xxxpost to mh

i think a good sustainable option these days is arctic char, which i've kinda really been enjoying lately. also there's a steelhead trout farm (i think in idaho) that has nice fish and say they're sustainable.

another xpost

Some catfish tastes muddier than others -- U.S. farm-raised is the cleanest tasting, imo.

According to Alton Brown, trout is one of the more sustainable & less toxic fish to eat, but I'm not gonna bother to double-check that. I think also anchovies & any of the smaller herrings lumped together under the name of "sardines" are cool. xpost

Did anyone hear that horrifying calamari/rectum expose on npr?

This brings me to a good question, what even is a defensible kind of fish to eat anymore? I've lost track of what different things the same fishes are called and which ones are regulated/endangered populations/etc and which aren't.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Sunday, March 17, 2013 2:20 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

im just gonna say, enjoy fish while you still can

that was on This American Life, and they just strongly implied it could happen, afaik no actual cases of it happening have been reported and actual officials were skeptical xp

that shit's fake. and i'll take hog ass over calamari anyday

http://livetofeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSCN0841.jpg

Trout and perch are midwestern staples, so that's good to know.

oh god what am i looking at

Did anyone hear that horrifying calamari/rectum expose on npr?

― emilys., Sunday, March 17, 2013 7:34 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol @ getting upset over the possibility of eating rectum when american meat processing techniques pretty much guarantees every square inch of beef u consume has been sprayed with a fine mist of cow shit

spicy hog rectum, duh xp

yeah, was generalizing and focusing on the bad examples I've tasted and agree, WmC. farm raising catfish sounds reprehensible since they're so invasive but that is a nice example of that type o'fish. as for tilapia pretty sure the one that is palatable is central American and not Chinese farmed, but still not a fan. it's sorta akin to eating carp. no offense to carp.

multiplexxpo=ssts

yeah i never feel like eating tilapia. it tastes like nothing. even the texture is so nothing. i like catfish, monkfish, rockfish, anything with the name fish in it.

catfish are awesome, they eat garbage

i want to eat snakehead

you can get a prize for catching it
On March 28, 2012, Don Cosden, from Maryland state's Department of Natural Resources confirmed that they were offering prizes for catching and killing any snakehead fish. To enter the contest, anglers had to catch, kill and then post a picture of themselves with a dead snakehead caught in Maryland on the DNR's website.[15]

i feel like americans should get used to eating invasive species, they are gonna be the only ones left in 20 years

What if green food coloring kills zebra mussels? Makes you think.

u kno, people are the world's most invasive species!

think about it, yo.

todays special: pan seared snakehead fillet with artisanal green food coloring ersatz-mango salsa, served with a side of synthetic amino-complete protein mash

purchased on amazon

don't forget the nutrifusion(tm)

Just today I bought some mango wasabi. It was on clearance for $1.84. My curiosity reached out and grabbed me by the lapels, forced itself into my face where I could smell its stale, boozy breath, and demanded I buy this. So I did. (shrugs)

it's actually a horseradish, rgiht? so it'd be like a mango horseradish mustard. sounds reasonable

i got some peach mango salsa today in honor of this thread

from a dumpster y/n

This brings me to a good question, what even is a defensible kind of fish to eat anymore? I've lost track of what different things the same fishes are called and which ones are regulated/endangered populations/etc and which aren't.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:20 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch is the most well-regarded consumer resource for making somewhat sustainable seafood choices.

(Though really fish are doomed, rip fish, nothing to be done)

treasure what we have: no more fish tacos with mango salsa.

At a conference in Anaheim. Ended up at some new restaurant in Fullerton with a "soft open" menu. Menu had about 4 things on it. Sure enough, a salmon salad with mango salsa was one. The state of salsa is in a shambles.

tilapia w/mango salsa is a jimmy buffet song no?

my favorite salsa is ketchup

http://casaveneracion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mango-ketshup.jpg

everyone makes mango ketchup

i'm thinkin that thai sweet chili sauce is probably a 110% better substitute in all mango salsa situations

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31WSh%2BL7WML.jpg

that stuff is bomb

u&k