We were produce shopping the other day and this idea struck me: Why not buy one piece of exoctic fruit and let the girls try it, then look up online where it came from and find it on the map and see if we learn anything interesting.

So I bought a nice ripe mango, we cut it up last night for snack and I thought it was very good, my girls thought it was disgusting! In fact, my five year old said it tasted like plastic. Needless to say, I ate the whole thing all by myself and at one point my tongue and lips felt a little tingly. Well, I looked mango up on wikipedia.org to find out where mangoes came from. I soon learned that they are in the POISON IVY family!!!! I took two Benedryl ASAP, then I continued reading and found out that usually only the skin and the sap cause an allergic reaction, but I wasn’t taking any chances.

Oh well, you can’t win them all. I am not so easily disheartened.....next week we’re trying starfruit.... after I look up the information.