Stella Lima eats mangos in the shower.
"Doesn't everybody?”, she asks, looking a bit perplexed that her habit fits into the quirky category.
“I like 'em really, really ripe, just before they turn,” she says. “I don"t like it when the juice runs down my face and gets onto my clothes so I had a brainstorm one day that this is something I could do in the shower.”
Stella’s been enjoying her favourite fruit in the comfort of her shower for more than ten years and while her partner is accustomed to it now, he got a bit of a shock the first time he found a mango pit on the edge of the tub. Still though, Stella maintains that it’s not that strange.
“It’s a passion thing. Passion is big for me so everything I do, I do with passion.”
While the benefits of eating juicy, borderline over-ripe fruits in the shower are obvious - no mess and the freedom to get as involved as you like – they don’t extend to fragrant and pleasing aromas permeating the bathroom or a particularly desired effect on the skin. You’d think that fresh mango juice would be the ultimate for some kind of skin care regime. All the products on TV are pushing the power of fruit in a consistent and ceaseless manner but oh well. Stella doesn’t need the extras when it comes to eating mangos in the shower.
“You really ought to try it one day,” she says. “I guarantee you’ll never go back."
Published in the Nanaimo Daily News on Thursday, June 9, 2005. Copyright (c) Kait Light, kaitsquirks.com, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. All Rights Reserved.
