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.
Hell yeah. Ever since I was a kid, yellow peaches have been one of the best foods I've ever eaten.
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.
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'.
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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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.
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
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.
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
Brave post of the month right here. Idk a fruit that's hated more than cantaloupe besides durian.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Apples. Locally grown, not flown across half the globe. And they come in all kinds of different flavors, some more sweet, some more sour, some mild.
True for most unless you have a mango tree growing in your yard. Then you have more mangos than you know what to do with. Kangaroos, cattle and horses like eating them though.
I don't think a mango tree would copy with the climate here. And there is a severe lack of Kangaroos around this place, maybe except for a bunch in the zoo...
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.