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.
I want this 😳
Peach
Which reminds me of
Nectarines
Hearing peach reminds me of Nicholas Cage
Hell yeah. Ever since I was a kid, yellow peaches have been one of the best foods I’ve ever eaten.
Peaches from Washington state are incredible. I say this as a Georgian.
Palisade Peaches. If you know, you know
None, I grew up with a mango tree in the backyard.
It was heaven.
Mangos are the greatest. I’ve tried all the others, pathetic.
Almost all of them.
I know we’re in the minority here, but I agree. Mango is gross.
I am a Mexican person that doesn’t like mangoes. You can’t even imagine the judgement.
There are many varieties of mangoes, my friend.
I’ve not had any that I like.
Same. Mango is unpleasant imo. Also peaches and apricot are gross too.
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.
If you want cheaper come to Malaysia, that’s where Singapore get their stuff.
I’ve never heard of those. They look just like the bombs from 64-era Zelda.
Isn’t the fruit to seed ratio bad?
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’.
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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.
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.
Same with honeydew. Once you have a perfect one, 90% are so disappointing. But that perfect one… Oh my!
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.
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.
Literally all of them.
L take
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!
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
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
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
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
I love raspberries but the common worm infestations deter me a bit.
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.
Sounds like the PNW to me.
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
What is a PNW?
Pacific Northwest of the US
Cantaloupe - when it’s not pre-cut with a possibility of salmonella
Ah, cantaloupe – the “packing peanuts” of any fruit salad
No, that would be apples.
Brave post of the month right here. Idk a fruit that’s hated more than cantaloupe besides durian.
Cantaloupe isn’t really the best fruit but it is the best melon by a longshot
Honeydew is better.
Fight me.
Honeydew is a very tight second. It’s too variable.
Totally agree on that one, honeydew is so much better
Banana
Perfectly ripe peaches (and other stonefruit)
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.
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.
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.
Nothing. A mango is literally heaven. So juicy.
Pawpaws
I have a few trees. Can’t wait til they start bearing fruit!
P.S. Assuming you’re talking about this and not papaya:
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).
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.
Amen!
A good kaki Edit: sorry, persimmons they are called in english i think
