• @roostopher
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    481 year ago

    Have you ever heard of a champagne mango? My wife and I had them when we toured a farm in Hawaii where their goal wasn’t actually to grow / sell fruit, but to replenish the nutrients in the soil that were wrecked by sugar cane plantations. Anyway, the guy pulls these mangoes straight off the tree and tells us they’re really fibrous so you can’t eat them like a regular mango, but you can mash it up in the skin then drink it like a juice box. He tossed me the one he was mashing up as a demo while explaining all this then told me to bite the top off and drink. As soon as my teeth broke the skin, juice started gushing out onto my shoes and the ground. The juice from that mango is easily like top 3 things I’ve ever eaten. Both the amount of flavor and the amount of juice that came from it were unbelievable.

  • Pons_Aelius
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    301 year ago

    None, I grew up with a mango tree in the backyard.

    It was heaven.

    • Blackout
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      81 year ago

      Mangos are the greatest. I’ve tried all the others, pathetic.

  • @TheBananaKing
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    151 year ago

    Mangosteens. They are the Best Fruit.

    The ones you get here in Australia are golfball-sized and horribly expensive, but when I went to singapore they were huge and cheap.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      91 year ago

      If you want cheaper come to Malaysia, that’s where Singapore get their stuff.

    • @ecoboyOP
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      31 year ago

      Isn’t the fruit to seed ratio bad?

      • Sharkfeek
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        31 year ago

        Not really but the answer is it depends on your luck. There are ‘slices’ that have no seed and some with seeds that are 80% of the ‘slice’.

    • @MisterChief
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      31 year ago

      I’ve never heard of those. They look just like the bombs from 64-era Zelda.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    There are mangoes and there are mangoes. If you mean the mangoes in a European supermarket, pretty much anything. If you mean the ones in Australia, there’s nothing better.

      • @drislands
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        51 year ago

        You are blinded by Big Mango! Cast aside your grassy not-quite-orange tasting fruit and join us where things are delicious without being an acquired taste!

  • @RBWells
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    131 year ago

    Where I live, we can get good mangoes, so they may win. But a good watermelon is my favorite fruit, and the occasional perfectly ripe apricot or peach I have tasted were both better than mango, they are just never ripe in the shops here, picked too early I think so they go straight from underripe and hard as rocks to mealy and unpleasant.

    • Rhynoplaz
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      91 year ago

      You can’t beat a good watermelon, but 75% of the watermelons I’ve had weren’t a good one, so they can be a bit of a gamble.

      • Golfnbrew
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        101 year ago

        Same with honeydew. Once you have a perfect one, 90% are so disappointing. But that perfect one… Oh my!

        • @RBWells
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          11 year ago

          Yes a good honeydew melon earns its name! If you can smell them in the store they are usually good. Same with cantaloupe. If you can’t smell it don’t buy it.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Some decades ago I bought Afghan watermelon seeds on a whim, wondering if it was notably different. Only 5 plants grew and only one viable fruit was produced. It was so unreasonably good and I had never previously enjoyed watermelon.

  • @Snapz
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    121 year ago

    Perfectly ripe peaches (and other stonefruit)

  • Skua
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    111 year ago

    Blackberries and strawberries! Although my tastes are likely coloured by the fact that I live in a place where few fresh fruits grow other than those, similar berries (yes, I know strawberries aren’t technically berries), and apples. So I like what is tastiest here. But I do really like them

    • @themusicman
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      41 year ago

      Weird. To me blackberries and strawberries are the most likely to be either bland or overripe/rotten tasting. I would pick raspberries (and maybe blueberries) any day of the week

      • Skua
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        101 year ago

        I find that they do not store or travel well. Like a lot of fruit they’re enormously tastier when they’re in season and local

        • @themusicman
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          11 year ago

          Probably true in many cases, but I’ve also eaten strawberries straight from the vine which were watery and tasteless… Raspberries are just more consistent

          • @angrystego
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            11 year ago

            I love raspberries but the common worm infestations deter me a bit.

      • @garbagebagel
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        Depends where they’re grown I think. I can’t stand California strawberries but give me some fresh BC strawberries and I am in heaven. I’ve never liked blackberries though, despite them growing on like every street corner here.

      • Skua
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        Scotland! I’ve never visited the PNW but the impression I get as an outsider is that the landscape and climate are quite similar to Scotland’s. The mountains are a lot bigger, but the general shape of things seems to hold

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          Pacific Northwest of the US

  • Zathras
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    101 year ago

    Cantaloupe - when it’s not pre-cut with a possibility of salmonella

    • @PowerGloveSoBad
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      11 year ago

      Ah, cantaloupe – the “packing peanuts” of any fruit salad

    • @Dkarma
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      Brave post of the month right here. Idk a fruit that’s hated more than cantaloupe besides durian.

      • Fogle
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        11 year ago

        Cantaloupe isn’t really the best fruit but it is the best melon by a longshot

        • @Dkarma
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          21 year ago

          Honeydew is better.

          Fight me.

          • Fogle
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            Honeydew is a very tight second. It’s too variable.

          • @quantumantics
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            21 year ago

            Totally agree on that one, honeydew is so much better

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s the only way! When I was a kid our neighbor had a big old Mission Fig tree with so many figs, we climbed up and picked a big bowlful, while eating so many!

      We ate all the ones that split when we were picking them, so they were the ripest. And we didn’t eat the skin, just scraped the insides out with our teeth. So decadent!

      Fully-ripe figs don’t travel well at all.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Pineapple. When I lived in Brazil I’d buy a fresh pineapple every week and it was heavenly. Easier to cut than a mango. The taste is debatable, I’d lean towards the tart tongue-dissolving pineapple, but hard to argue with the texture of a mango.

  • @jacktherippah
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    Nothing. A mango is literally heaven. So juicy.