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 😳
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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.
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.
100% this is the only correct answer
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’.
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!
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.
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Since you’re rating fruits based on accessibility, I simply must bring up durians.
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
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
Than good mango, not many.
Perfectly ripe and jammy persimmons are up there though.
Super ripe and juicy yellow melon is an experience too. Especially when eaten straight out of the fridge on a hot summers day.
I mean, a room temperature orange is a juicy wonder
Also grapes if you get them just right
I find grapes far too sweet these days. I tried variety box of them a few months back and none tasted fresh and tart how I remembered them from childhood.
Figs fresh off the tree.
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.
Manstays
Anything, as I don’t like mangos.
Seriously though, oranges.
A good kaki Edit: sorry, persimmons they are called in english i think
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:
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.
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).
Amen!
I love the kind of mangoes I used to get in the tropics. Small, very sweet, yellow skin with soft fibers. I’d plock them directly from any tree around me. The skin itself was soft and sweet so no peeling needed.
There’s another kind of mango that locally we called “manga”. It’s bigger, often with reddish and greenish colors mixed with the yellow. It’s more fibrous and significantly less sweet. I really don’t like these, but it’s all I can get where I live now, possibly because the ones I like are harder to preserve and export.
