The arrival of Indian mangoes in the United States has become the source of excitement in the people of Indian American community. The report says that the people became nostalgic by the availability of Indian mangoes in the US market.

People has started writing on various websites such as the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) website to show their passion to taste the long-deprived Indian fruit.

Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, said that that he is thrilled to have the taste he missed most from India. He said that the taste of Alphonso is just delicious and the best in the world. Americans have been deprived of this delicacy for too long,

Shashi Tharoor, former UN Under-Secretary General, has written that after years of indigence, where what passed for mangoes in American supermarkets was a charade of the term. But, we have got the real taste at last.

He has written that he used to believe true mango lovers in US could sue American groceries for using the false advertising for the flavorless, gristly fruit that did not even deserve the name as mango. Every American should try the real Indian mango.

Earlier, India had sent the mango consignments to US first time after 18 years. Earlier, the US had imposed a ban on the import of Indian mangoes in 1989 following the problems with pests used on mangoes such as fruit flies and weevils.

People became sentimental while writing on the arrival of Indian mangoes in US market. Ashir Badami has written on SAJA’s website that;

... the absence of the Indian mango from our lives here has become a symbol for the South Asian experience in the West.

No matter how far we’ve traveled, how well we do, or how long we have been here, the inability to get a good Alphonso or any other variety has meant that we have always had a portion of ourselves that existed elsewhere, beyond the imagination or experience of our new home.

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