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My Family Used To Call A Bell Pepper A Mango

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When I was little my family would always call bell peppers mangoes , how about you?! When I moved from the Midwest to California, I was shocked when I found out what a mango really was when I began working for a local grocery chain. Boy, we were SO FAR OFF THAT IT'S STILL EMBARRASSING!🫑🥭 However, it is still common enough that the Webster dictionary's definition for mango includes a sweet pepper.   Some grocery stores will call their bell peppers “ mango peppers ” so that everybody knows exactly what type of food they are looking at. I do wonder how that would work for anybody wanting to prepare a Mango and Bell Pepper Salsa. Although both the bell pepper and the mango are fruits, a pepper is a pepper and a mango is a mango. Imagine ordering a delicious tropical mango fruit drink and receiving a bell pepper drink.🤣 Tropical Mango Fruit Drinks Made In Hawaii Why is bell pepper call mango in the first place? Well, in the Midwest and some Appalachia states (especiall...

Devotional Dad For Life And Beyond

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My dad had been a Boy Scout for over 50 years. He devoted most of his life to the Boy Scouts Of America and he even had a Boy Scout museum for several years. When he was in the process of the end of his life from cancer that spread to his lungs and liver at age 88, I asked him if he would try to communicate with me somehow  and some time after he passed on and he told me he would try. My dad was also a coin collector a lot of his life. He is the reason I got into coin collecting. I go all over in the area I live in and purchase bags and boxes of old coins to go through and pick out the old coins. He has been gone for going on 5 years now. Last week I was going through a bag of coins and found this penny with a Boy Scout symbol that is punched on this penny the same one that is on his tombstone. I’m thinking to myself what are the odds that I find this rare penny. I said out loud thank you for being a wonderful devotional dad even after leaving this earth! When I was 12 my face was ...