#009 EXPORT MANGOS AND IMPORT WINE?

While searching for good blogs, I came across one blog: http://allfrutes.blogspot.com/2007/11/alphonso.html. I could not write my comment there, as it does not provide readers' comments. Hence I am writing this blog post.

QUOTE FROM THE BLOG
"... In the Indian epic Ramayana, Lord Rama spends 14 years in exile in the forest before he can claim his throne. Alphonso has had to wait for 17. The long wait is finally over. On May 1, 2007, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns welcomed the first Indian mangoes arriving through American port ..."

THIS BLOGGER'S COMMENT:Are Rama and the Alphonso mangoes equal? Can we compare their waiting in exile? Did the Alphonso mangoes suffer by waiting?

Should we export mangoes and import liquors (nothing but fermented trash) from US? Hitherto Indian rich were buying Alphonso mangoes and the middle class/poor were buying other varieties of mangoes. Now will the Indian rich buy other variety mangoes? Should the poor starve for vitamin A?