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

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    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.

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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.

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      I have a few trees. Can’t wait til they start bearing fruit!

      P.S. Assuming you’re talking about this and not papaya:

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        Same! I planted a lot of seeds around my yard thinking they’d somehow be hard to grow, and every single one of them germinated. I think I have like sixteen saplings (three of them are Peterson ones that we bought from a grafter).

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        Papaya still tastes like vomit to me, and just flat and sweet not balanced. I can’t imagine anyone arguing that it’s better than mango. Have not tried pawpaw yet.

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    Anything, as I don’t like mangos.

    Seriously though, oranges.