(CNN) -- If you don't like mangoes, look away now. This article includes a "mango" word count well in excess of what is normally reasonable. It features mango culinary demonstrations, mango samplings, mango lectures, mango medics, a mango auction and even a mango summit. That's because I attended the International Mango Festival, held in the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami earlier this month. It's an annual event, one that draws enthusiasts, like myself, and also mango "experts" who gather to talk, taste and slurp their way around this sweetest, drippiest of fruits. I imagine most are still reading. After all, who doesn't like mangoes?
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The International Mango Festival takes places every year in Miami, bringing together mango enthusiasts and experts
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Dozens of varieties from around the world can be tasted, cooked and bid for during the two-day event
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The Fairchild mango was named after David Fairchild, who introduced mangoes to the U.S. in early 1900s
That's not as much bananas -- in the same year the @placeholder imported more than 4 million tons of bananas, worth nearly $2 billion.