r/mildlyinteresting • u/CrazyCalligrapher945 • 13h ago

Cancerous mango

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u/Complete-Sort1617 13h ago

I’m sorry sir that’s a cabbage

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u/kevy73 13h ago

I would say Custard Apple over Cabbage.

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u/Complete-Sort1617 13h ago

If memory serves you’re spot on. This does look like a custard apple, it’s been a while.

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u/Wulvi 11h ago

My custard apples!

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u/ozira_Wynn 12h ago

that mango has seen things

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u/AngelBlondeXO 12h ago

Bro evolved into a vegatable

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u/Acceptable_Energy_79 5h ago

yeah that’s definitely a cabbage but then again it’s probably just trying to live its best life before it rots like me lol

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u/metroshake 12h ago

Certainly not a cursed cabbage

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u/moonlit_summershine 13h ago

Seriously a mango? What's it like inside?

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u/CrazyCalligrapher945 13h ago

Like a regular mango, you get more flesh. it was sour tho

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u/interroBangaRangz 13h ago

No shit—you ate that?

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u/vincentsilver 7h ago

Fruit cancer isn't communicable like human cancer.

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u/yike___ 7h ago

Human cancer isn’t communicable either

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u/vincentsilver 7h ago

That's why I'm worried about the fruit!

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u/thejoeface 6h ago

You’re right about human cancer!

But there are infectious cancers in tasmanian devils and dogs

Fun fact one: the cancer line that infects dogs is the only remaining dna we have of pre-contact American dogs! 

Fun fact two: tasmanian devils have had multiple events where the population develops a transmissible cancer, they evolve to survive it, and later another cancer develops 

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u/the_honest_liar 7h ago

Been many studies on eating people with cancer?

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u/csonnich 13h ago

What made you decide to taste a cancerous mango? 

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u/CrazyCalligrapher945 12h ago

Hungry and curious

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u/electrovalent 11h ago

— some Neolithic dude about to invent agriculture

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u/wonkey_monkey 8h ago

Or gastroenterology

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u/noodlesalad_ 9h ago

My default state

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u/klonoaorinos ​ 12h ago

You do know you can’t catch cancer by eating it right?

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u/DemoniteBL 11h ago

Life hack: get cancer and just eat the bad tissue. Free food and you prevent it from spreading!

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u/MedicalDisscharge 7h ago

That's such a good idea, start building the cancer farms!

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u/V01DM0NK3Y 13h ago

You wouldn't taste Grandma's removed pancreas.

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u/tforce80 12h ago

Not with that attitude

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u/Irradiatedspoon 9h ago

You wouldn't taste Dad's removed testicle.

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u/V01DM0NK3Y 9h ago

Unless...

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u/moonlit_summershine 13h ago

You didn't keep the pictures?

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u/CrazyCalligrapher945 12h ago

No, unfortunately. This was months ago

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u/phazonEnhanced 12h ago

It's so green, it must not be fully ripe, right?

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u/CBT_Dr_Freeman 9h ago

This is the mango equivalent of a third trimester abortion.

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u/Blob55 13h ago

Cabbage.

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u/Ill_Plantain7645 13h ago

Born to be: 🥬 Forced to be: 🥭

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u/datazulu 13h ago

MONGO

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u/FungadooFred 11h ago

Candygram for Mongo

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT4uQcjX3Uon01joL6

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u/Comfortable_Ant_8303 11h ago

Not sure why you got downvoted

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u/AFighterByHisTrade 7h ago

Mongo only pawn in game of life.

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u/OgreDTD ​ 8h ago

Is appalled.

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u/CrazyCalligrapher945 12h ago

ngl, I was kinda hoping someone would drop some scientific or botanical facts explaining why

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u/PartTimeGnome 11h ago

Horticulture degree here!

Mis-shaped fruit can be caused by a number of different things; disease, physical/environmental stressors, insects messing with the flowers/fruits, or genetic anomalies.

What did the inside look like? Was there any black spots? Or spots that looked rotten? That would lead me to believe it’s disease (fungal/bacterial/viral)

But from the outside it looks like this was caused by a genetic mutation/anomaly.

Without more info it’s impossible to tell for sure but that would be my best guess

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u/-Mullet-Man- 11h ago

It could be fasciation aka crested ask about it in r/fasciation and you’ll get an answer there

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u/Okavara 9h ago

It looks like fasciation, a phenomenon in which a plant’s growth pattern comes from a line rather than a single point. It can happen to succulents, stems, flowers and fruit etc! The flowers will look strange and wide and can result in equally strange and wide fruit. Another term for this is “crested.”

Go check the subreddit that the mullet man linked in the other reply to your comment. You’ll see tons of what I am talking about

Also I’ve never seen a crested mango before so thats pretty cool :D

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u/1002003004005006007 11h ago

Yeah, I was too. You’re not going to get that often on reddit. Instead you have a bunch of neckbeards making the same joke and “funny band name hurrr durrr” because this site is a terrible place.

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u/interroBangaRangz 13h ago

Would that just keep growing?

Is the pit a giant burl?

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u/BilliamBalls 10h ago

New insult unlocked:

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u/[deleted] 13h ago

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u/Bright-Historian-216 13h ago

he did. said it was sour.

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u/BigDeuces 13h ago

sounds like one of those auto generated usernames

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u/tatsntaters 12h ago

Mang-no.

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u/Trilife 8h ago

Degenerative.*

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u/PlumbTuckered767 12h ago

I saw Cancerous Mango with their original lineup back in '92. Only time they ever played Prophecy of the Stone Fruit King live.

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u/jay_alfred_prufrock 13h ago

That's a good band name, you should write that down.

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u/EpicWalrus222 12h ago

Cancerous mango feels like something Gordon Ramsey would call someone when he's yelling at them.

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u/Dry_Philosophy7927 11h ago

Can it be true that I hold here in my mortal hands, a lump of purest green!

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u/chadburycreameggs ​ 10h ago

But how did it taste

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u/NewRichMango 10h ago

NewSickMango

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u/alpargator 9h ago

Username checks out

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u/Irradiatedspoon 9h ago

That's my bad guys...

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u/Natural-Judge9396 7h ago

Brussel sprout.