• roostopher@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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

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          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.

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        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.

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    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

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      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

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        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

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          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

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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.

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

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    Mangos are S tier on taste, but D at best on accessibility. Fruits that I rate highly for both taste and convenience are clementines, seedless green grapes, and those flying-saucer shaped peaches.

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      I guess the takeaway is that, the more accessible a fruit is, the better it tastes. Shipping things really alters the taste and freshness somewhat.

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        I meant accessibility in the sense of, how difficult/messy/undignified is it to eat. But yes that too. I thought coconuts were brittle, and grapefruit were inedibly sour until I tried some in their country of origin.

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      You need to have a shower mango.

      What is a shower mango?

      Its when you stand in the shower fully nude, rip the skin off and raw dog it until there’s nothing left but seed.

      Then you leave the shower without turning on the taps.

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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.