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 ML> in the southeast (which seems to be a hotbed of linguistic
 ML> weirdness), green peppers are sometimes called "mangoes."
 CS> Thats a new one on me!
 ML> Yup, mostly in Virginia.
 CS> Odd, I come from there.  Oh well, must be another area of it that I
 CS> havent been to much.
 
See my post to Jim, and also below.

 CS> I've seem many soups with shiitakes but I admit, I dont think any
 CS> creamed ones. 
 CS> I think they are too expensive when a lesser mushroom would do.

Correct - they have a distinctive and pronounced flavor that
can't be substituted for in some dishes, but in others, that
flavor would be wasted.

Do You Speak American . Track That Word! | PBS
Mango (1806) mango n 
1  Any of var fruits or vegetables (as a muskmelon,
peach, pepper, or cucumber)  filled with a usu highly
spiced stuffing and pickled. [OED mango sb.1 4 1699
’!;  the East Indian mango (Mangifera indica) was at
first known only as a pickle;  the "mangoes" illustr
here were made in imitation of that imported 
delicacy.]1806 (1970) Webster Compendious Dict. 184,
Mango, . . a fruit from the  E. Indies pickled, a
green musmelon [sic] pickled. [DARE Ed: The second
part of  this definition does not appear in Webster's
English model.] 1830 Child Frugal  Housewife 89,
Musk-melons should be picked for mangoes, when they
are green and  hard. 1847 (1852) Crowen Amer. Cookery
390, Melon Mangoes. - Get the late, small,  smooth,
green melon. [DARE Ed: The melons are stuffed with
horseradish,  cucumbers, green beans, nasturtiums,
onions, mustard seed, peppercorns, cloves,  and
allspice, and then pickled.] 1890 James Mother James'
Cooking 391, Pickled  Mangoes. Select green or half-
grown muskmelons. . . Peach Mangoes. . . Green  Pepper
Mangoes. Ibid 392, Cucumber Mangoes. . . Take fresh
vinegar, a gallon to  one and one-half pounds of brown
sugar, boil for fifteen or twenty minutes and  pour
over mangoes. 1903 DN 2.320 seMO, Mango. . . A kind of
pickle made of small  green melons stuffed with
tomatoes, etc. 1940 Brown Amer. Cooks 395 MA, Stuffed 
Mangoes. . . Either green peppers or small muskmelons
may be used for mangoes.  Mix all well together and
fill each mango. 1953 Piercy Shaker Cook Book 187, 
Pickled Bell Peppers. . . The North Union (OH) Sisters
made literally hundreds  of crocks of these pickled
peppers, or pickled mangoes. 1982 Weaver Quaker Woman's
Cookbook lxvi, In Pennsylvania and western
Maryland, mangoes were generally  made with green bell
peppers. In Tidewater Maryland . . muskmelons provided
the  most popular form of local mango. 

2  also mango pepper; pronc-sp mangle: A pepper, esp a
green pepper 1. chiefly W  Midl See Map1948 WELS
Suppl. VA, I was surprised while living in Virginia to
see  green peppers advertised and sold as "mangoes."
1950 WELS (Large sweet peppers)  2 Infs, WI, Mangoes.
c1960 Wilson Coll. csKY, Mango. . . Sweet pepper, 
bell-pepper. 1964 Gourmet May 2, [Letter:] The use of
the term mango for bell  pepper . . is not limited to
Indiana. I have heard it used in Louisiana and 
Georgia. We once had an old English gardener up in
Vermont many years ago, and  he always called the
green pepper a mango. Bird and chili peppers are also 
referred to as mangoes. 1965- 70 DARE (Qu. I22d, . .
Peppers - large sweet) 113  Infs, chiefly W Midl, esp
sIL, sIN, sOH, Mangoes; IN41, 48, Sweet mangoes; MO39, 
Mango peppers; MO5, MO27, Mangles; MO4, Tomato
peppers - also called the little  mangle peppers; (Qu.
I22c, . . Peppers - small sweet) 15 Infs, chiefly N
Midl,  Mangoes; IL85, Small mangoes; OK3, Mango
peppers; (Qu. I22b, . . Peppers—large  hot) Infs IN76,
KS1, PA150, Mangoes; MO6, Mangoes - not so hot nor so
small; KS6,  KY52, VA28, Mango peppers; IN41, 48, Hot
mangoes; (Qu. I22a, . . Peppers—small  hot) Infs IL7,
MO18, Mango peppers; NJ2, Mangoes. 1970 DARE File KY,
sOH,  Mango - bell pepper. 1972 NYT Article Letters
cnIN, In my home area, green (bell)  peppers are
called mangos. 

3  also mango melon: A melon (Cucumis melo Chito
Group). [See quot 1988] Also  called vegetable
peach1934 (1943) W2 , Mango melon. . . A muskmelon
(Cucumis  melo chito) bearing orangelike fruit used as
pickles and preserves. 1970 DARE  (Qu. I26, . . Kinds
of melons) Inf VA108, Mangoes - small cantaloupes, not
an  actual mango. 1976 Bailey- Bailey Hortus Third
342, [Cucumis] Melo. . . Chito  Group. . . Mango
m[elon], orange m., garden lemon, melon apple,
vegetable  orange, vine peach. . . Fr[uit] yellow or
orange, the size and shape of a lemon  or orange,
flesh white and firm, not fragrant. Used to make
preserves and  pickles. 1986 Pederson LAGS Concordance
(Muskmelon) 1 inf, cnGA, Mango. 1988  Whealy Garden
Seed Inventory (2d ed) 229, Vine Peach (Mango Melon,
Vegetable  Peach) . . native American annual, peach
size and color, flavor & texture much  like mango,
easy to grow, . . best when cooked for canning &
preserves & pies &  pickling whole (for pickling pick
while still green).

Source: Dictionary of American Regional English,
Harvard University Press (DARE)
http://www.pbs.org/speak/words/trackthatword/ttw/?i=1239
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