Cabbie calls mango forbidden fruit

Cab driver Gregord Oconner has refused to eat a few mangoes from a tree in his Franklyn Town, Kingston yard because one has a funny shape, which he likens to female's genitalia

"Mi know is a mango still, and a just Mother Nature make it shape so, but mi nah consume it just because it shape so. It a go look like mi a eat 'deh so' and mi nah do that," Oconner told THE STAR.

The cabbie, who plies the Rollington Town to downtown Kingston route, said that he recently tricked one of his friends to bite one of the mangoes. He admitted that he hid the curiously-shaped part of the mango from his friend. For his deception, he was hit with a string of expletives.

"Mi get all type a reaction from it but every man weh mi show, say dem nah nyam it," he laughed.

Oconner's mango tree is loaded with dozens of the exquisite fruit but he re-emphasised that no one is eating them.

"It bear every year but a just the past three years mi see some weh shaped like the female private parts. Mi nuh business if a man waan eat it enuh, in fact, any man wah do it can come link mi for dem," he said.

The Rural Agricultural Development Authority Fruit Tree Crop Agronomist Locksley Waite says the fruit, although deformed in shape is safe for consummation.

"The main pollinator for mango is the house fly so its possible that a bad pollination could have taken place or probably something could have hit it when it was in its early stage. The fruit is good and can be eaten," he said.