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Yes, we have no mangos

In Ohio I order a pizza.  The menu says one of the items I can put on it is Mango.  That's curious. I buy a Hawaiian mango at the new Supercenter Grocery Store, and the check-out girl asks what's this? and I say it's a mango.  She says, no it's not, that's a mango, and points to the green pepper. In Hawaii, I work at a farm, and pick some Lilikoi. A customer asks my co-worker if we have any passionfruit, and she says no. They ask me if lilikoi is like passionfruit and I say its dakine, but she's a visitor and doesn't understand, so I say, it's the same thing. There's a Hawaiian family with a fruit stand; I like to trade the extra lilikoi for their really good mangos they grow, but the Hawaiian word is Manako.  Since they know I always want manako, I ask dakine? They were out, so instead he asked you want some Apples?  I thought he meant those little red pears they call Mountain Apples and looked perplexed when I couldn't see any, so he picked up a clump of miniature bananas.  Oh, yes I love Apple-bananas.
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