Mysterious Mango Business

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Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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How far would you go to eat a food that reminds you of home? Would you be willing to smuggle it over the border from Canada? Drive four hours each way just to taste it? In this episode, we hear about a community of Pakistani Americans so obsessed with Pakistani mangos that they’ve developed their own supply chain--all to get a bite of a variety of mango you’ll never find in the grocery store. A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something that's...
0:06.0	Hello, I'm Ian Stirling, and I'm with one of McCain's farmers who grow their potatoes.
0:10.0	Hang on, these are odd-looking potatoes.
0:12.0	That's kale, Ian.
0:14.0	You do know you need potato to make chips, right?
0:17.0	Yes, but we don't just grow potatoes.
0:19.0	We actually rotate different crops to help keep the soil healthy.
0:22.0	So we eat McCain chips. I'm helping do some good.
0:25.0	Exactly, yeah. You're supporting the move to regenerative farming.
0:28.0	By the way, I do know the difference between kale and potatoes.
0:31.0	Of course you do.
0:33.0	McCain, let's all jump in.
0:39.0	I met Ali Akbar, picks up the phone.
0:42.0	It's his cousin, and the dude is frantic.
0:46.0	He needs help now.
0:48.0	And it has something to do with the shipment coming into an airport.
0:54.0	He had somebody who was going to go pick it up from him from Detroit.
0:57.0	His driver pulled out.
0:59.0	It's 2018, and a man just happens to be visiting his dad and Michigan.
1:04.0	I grew up about two hours from there, and I was visiting home.
1:07.0	And he was like, can you go get them for me?
1:09.0	His cousin gives him an address.
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