Banana
Damson plum
I really like pears.
Apples
Pricly pear cactus fruit and those red, sea urchin lookin fruits (i forgot their name)
Edit: called rambutan fruit
If you like rambutan, you will love pulasan. It’s basically Rambutan 2.
Rambutan in great. But I don’t think it comes close to mangoes’ level.
Manstays
Avocados
Peach
Hell yeah. Ever since I was a kid, yellow peaches have been one of the best foods I’ve ever eaten.
Palisade Peaches. If you know, you know
Which reminds me of
Nectarines
Hearing peach reminds me of Nicholas Cage
Peaches from Washington state are incredible. I say this as a Georgian.
Anything else. Where my mango not likers at?
Sex, almost.
Pomegranates. They are my favourite. Also apples.
It’s a testament to how good pomegranates are that we’re willing to put up wth the hassle of eating them
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
Sounds like the PNW to me.
What is a PNW?
Pacific Northwest of the US
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
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
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.
Good quality berries and grapes
Some berries just aren’t fresh/ripe/grown. But once you get a good box of them…
I prefer the green grapes, and on the berry side I love them all: raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, various regional berries
Against the mangoes I can get my hands on? Most fruit is better.
The best mangoes are the slightly tangy, firm, fibrous ones you can find in Australia. Those are absolutely unbeatable.
Here in NZ all you can find are the sickly sweet, soft, smooth fleshed mangoes which just aren’t the same. Might as well buy the tins of Kesar pulp imported from India.
You probably like mango biche. Basically unripe mangoes are exactly as you described. Tart and firm. They only become soft and yellow when they ripen. I have a mango tree in front of my house and the street guys come and pick it clean long before they ripen since mango biche is better than ripe mangoes.
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 😳
