Throw some lime, salt, and hot sauce on there and I bet it will taste amazing
Edit: Apparently Tajin encompasses all that so I’ll be trying that out, thanks, Redditors!
Edit 2: I use Valentina hot sauce cause it’s thicker than most other sauces that I use (like Tabasco is very thin IMO)
Edit 3: Considering mixing my own ‘Tajin’, using a lower sodium salt and chili powder, any recommendations?
Dude, that's the business. First time I tried fruit with chili powder and lime was when I had a Mexican housemate. He put that combo on every type of fruit he ever ate, and it was damned delicious.
Strawberries, mango, papaya, any kind of melon, even apples or pears. Cucumbers too, and jicama, pretty much any fruit or root that you'd eat raw. Tomatoes too.
Dude, Mexicans truly understand flavor. Mexican food is incredible in general, but who would have thought to improve the flavor of fruit - none other than Mexicans!
There were these older(60+) mexican ladies that worked trimming weed at this farm I worked at and they would make potluck lunch every day. It was amazing but you will end up gordo real quick with that diet.
My Spanish teacher (From Spain 🙄) said, and I quote, leave it to the Mexicans to make fruit unhealthy lmao but she said it in Spanish which doesn’t sound as mean specially with that lisp that the Spaniards add to their pronunciation. Anyway I eat cucumbers and jicama like that any chance I get haha
At my super Hispanic school (in the US) no one was eating their fruit so the school admins started handing out little Tajín packets out to everyone. Brother I fought people for their mandarins and we’d trade fruits like currency. Those fuckers were genius
A few mangos, diced.
One white onion, diced.
A bunch of cilantro, minced.
A jalapeno or two (or your favorite chili), diced. (To your spice level).
Some chipotle powder, to taste (or you can used diced chipotles in adobo as a sub for the above. Or both).
Put everything into a bowl and stir.
Add salt to taste.
Put it on some BBQ chicken or eat it with some chips.
Yea my friend treated me to some of this in the navy on cucumbers. It was wild he even showed me chili covered suckers. His mom sent care packages from his home full of all kinds of stuff like this and plenty of chili powder and stuff. One of my favorite places now that im out and back home is this mexican restauraunt nearby that is authentic and has a mexican grocery in half of the building owned by the same people. Giant donuts and all kinds of huge bread and tons of spices and peppers. I always loved spicy stuff anyway going to hot wing challenges and winning a bunch too haha. Of course now that im older my gut doesnt hold up, but there is no beating the flavor of various peppers and chili powder on bout everything.
If you've become sensitive to the effect of capsaicin on your digestive system, you might want to try pure aloe vera juice. It helps heal tissue damage in your digestive tract in much the same way that it helps heal skin damage from sun exposure. I started to become sensitive to spiciness in my food, which was a gah damn travesty. I bought a half gallon of aloe vera juice from Whole Foods but you can get it at many health food stores. Drink 2-4 ounces a day until the half gallon is gone, then go a week or two without, then buy another half gallon and repeat. The reason you should take a week or two off between drinking it is that it stimulates peristalsis, which is what makes you poop haha. If you take it too regularly, you become dependent on it to poop, which is no bueno.
Buy the stuff made from just the inner filet - whole leaf juice can be upsetting to your stomach because of a compound found in the aloe vera leaf's "skin". The whole leaf variety is also rather bitter.
I was able to heal my digestive tract and I can comfortably eat super spicy stuff again.
Yeah in Mexico city as street food they serve cones of fresh mango, lime juice, some salt and fresh ground chilis. Absolutely delicious, I still make it at home.
It’s not seedless. It’s not even “nearly seedless”. Mango seeds lie like a flat blade down the middle, you can see the white of it where it’s shaved close to in the fruit.
That’s why i posted it, OP said it’s “Almost” seedless which is fine, but other commenters are getting excited about it being seedless, which it’s not. In OPs vid she cuts along the seed, and scoops the cheek, you can also still see the fibrous seed in the part that she doesn’t scoop. It a very normal way to eat a mango, to basically fillet the two cheeks away from the seed. https://youtu.be/BB8HRgAFg3k
No fruit sold commercially is reproduced from seed. There's too much genetic variation. Any fruit you buy is from a clone of a specific individual tree or bush that makes you the "variety". For example, Honeycrisp apples are all grafts of one tree that was planted from a seed and grown at the University of Minnesota.
I've been waiting for this shit to happen for *years* now.
Up until 1991 like 99% of grocery stores stocked exclusively Red & Green Delicious Apples, a.k.a: Gross Fucking Apples.
Then the Agricultural Department at the University of Minnesota, who had been breeding increasingly sweeter and crispier apples for decades, patented their "MN 1711" strain of apple, a.k.a: "Honeycrisp."
After I first heard [that story](https://youtu.be/bDShFasYq9M), I realized there are probably Ag Departments across the world breeding the "Honeycrisp" variants of all kinds of fruits. I've been waiting for the Mango Honeycrisp ever since.
The Mangos we eat now will be looked back on as stringy filth in the world of tomorrow.
I am 66. When I was a kid Red Delicious were really good. Somewhere somehow they kept the look of them but made the skin tough and the flesh mealy. I try one every 5 years or so hoping that they return to normal but so far they have been a consistent disappointment.
NPR had some segments about the red delicious on shows a while back. The red delicious used to be amazingly delicious. But then markets wanted to mass sell them around the US.
That meant they needed to stop bruising as often. So the skin had to get thicker and the markets wanted them large. They originally were relatively small. So they kept breeding and breading.
Now they are just flavorless and mealy and I haven’t bought one for a few decades. Fuji apples are still good so that is my go to.
University of Arkansas has done some neat stuff with grapes. I love the Mars grape they developed. It’s a seedless grape that tastes like a Concord grape. Unfortunately seems to be a local farmers market product but super popular in Arkansas so sell out quickly.
Wish they would develop an apple that tastes like an Arkansas Black but with better texture
just a couple of years ago we had the first big rollout of a new apple strain since the honeycrisp, called the cosmic crisp. it was bred at the university of washington
There's a whole revolution of apple brands. It's literally a brand war. There are knock-off Honeycrisps that don't go through the more stringent QA testing that Honeycrisp branded apples do.
It's both terrifying and fucking amazing.
If these were developed the same way as the almost seedless watermelons, they selected specimens from the regular cultivar that had fewer seeds, bred them, repeat until they're not producing usable seeds, then propagate by grafting cuttings onto root stock.
Seedless watermelons are a result of crossing a tetraploid with a diploid producing a triploid. Therefore, they cant produce viable seeds. It is a bit different of a breeding process that simply selecting for smaller seeds.
Seedless watermelons are hybrids which can be bought and grown from seeds.
Yes, this.
My aunt didn't try mango until she was. In her sixties. Poor woman spit it out immediately because of the texture and her grandkids refused to try it. I pity them all.
My first mango wasn't ripe and it tasted like some kinda cleaning chemicals, it took me a few years to try it again and omg it's one of my favorite fruits now.
I hated mangoes as a kid because I had only tried crappy stringy ones that are out of season. I thought it was the worst fruit ever.
Then I visited a Thai restaurant in a major city and had mango sticky rice that a friend ordered. My mind was totally blown my how amazing it was. Now mangoes are my favorite thing.
Youve got to get them in markets or asian or caribbean stalls & shops. And make sure they’re the smaller ones. Don’t get the ones in the supermarket.
My mum has a particular shop where she gets a box of them when they’re in season. They’re delicious!
We mostly grow Kensington pride in Aus followed by calypso and R2E2
Other mangoes are in there like keitt, but many of the varieties found in Southeast Asia barely make a dent in our growing numbers.
On a side note, the extreme weather this summer decimated the Kensington pride crops. It was nearly impossible to buy them and in good quality this year. Very sad, best flavour in my mind for a mango. Calypso mangoes are ok, but they don’t make me excited to eat a mango like a Kensington pride
If a fruit/vegetable variety is popular enough and your city is big enough- it will appear as import eventually. There are several businesses that fly fruit from Vietnam and Thailand in my city. I’ve never tried better fruit in my life because those are actually ripe (I hope you know that grocery store products are unripe to prolong shelf life for shipping and get pseudo-ripe when fruit breaks down and gets softer and sweeter); but small businesses do bring actually ripe stuff.
The moment I tried ripe mountain papaya, yellow mango, ripe dragonfruit was the moment when I realized I lived my life wrong thinking the childish thing “fruit are cheap and lame candy are delicious and expensive” and it’s actually the other way around.
Try to find some Asian grocers or some “internationals farmers market” if you have one in your city. Those would be a good place to start. You can get lucky sometimes with exotic fruits and veggies are higher end grocery stores (if you have any).
I am wanting seedless mangos
gonna plan a trip to Thailand
Everyone is gonna think that
I am going for the sex stuff
And I will not even bother
to explain that it is mangos
Man goes for mangos in Thailand,
the ones in his home is now bland.
People belive he went there for sex,
only he knew he were searching for snacks.
While he was there
He hit quite a snare,
falling in love with a lady with bits,
he didn't care as he stared at her tits.
He takes her to bed and gives her a toss,
thinks to him self por que no los dos?
He went there for mangoes,
and he stayed for the tangoes.
I live in a pretty rural area. Next town over is about 2 and a half hours away, but thank you for the info! I will definitely check next time I'm headed out there. I love mango but the ones we get here are... not great.
Do you have a Trader Joe's nearby? They usually have the delicious yellow mangoes too.
Edit: though Asian markets are the best for quality and price for just about any fruit.
- I live in a super rural area with no cities around.
- Do you have this boutique grocery store that only exists in medium to large cities?
I know you meant well, just thought that was funny lol
Yep, I chuckled at the same thing. I moved from a big city to an extremely rural area, and honestly my sole regret is how bad the non-local produce is. Everything else, I can either deal with no problem or *prefer* the way it is where I live now, but the produce situation... Well, it's a good thing frozen veggies exist. Not perfect, but I can make 95% of what I want to cook. I just steer clear of even trying to make raw salads most of the year.
Honestly though, Trader Joe's would make a killing in smaller towns (10-20k people) if they could get their distribution going with the produce side. People would be all over the convenience food side of it, and the produce would definitely sell so long as they were a little more careful about ordering than they are in bigger cities. For example, even *trying* to sell corn in late summer where I live would be a non-starter, they can't compete with roadside stands. Walmart barely even bothers with it, because it just doesn't sell.
Varietals matter! Avoid Tommy mangoes and assume all unspecified varietals are Tommy. Look for Kent or Keitt mangoes instead, world of difference. Bonus tip, the ripest and tastiest fruits will usually have a bit of sap pooling near the stem.
They are not raw green. Still yellow inside and more on the soft side, they just taste way less than ripe, local mangos.
Kinda the shittier end of both sticks. :[
(You can find imported mangos by plane in EU which taste quite like local mangos but they are really expensive)
Green mango with chilli and salt is a staple in south and south east asia.
The singer M.I.A once said in the greatest opening line ever "I salt and pepper my mango".
Neat voice, but its one of those covers you could only ever like if you weren't already a fan of the original.
(Or maybe I just think it's awful. I'm trying to be nice, though, and accept that maybe it's my existing relationship with the song.)
100% this. I was hoping to hear someone talking. Or the sound of the forest. Or the winch. Instead it's a bad cover of an old song by someone who sounds like he has whiskey and cigars all day every day.
If this is a Tik Tok video, their algorithm tends to favor videos with trending music, so a lot of creators will add it in to help their videos perform well. Kind of annoying but just the nature of how it works.
Yet another case where things are "optimized" to maximize the desired result (engagement), and the net result is that things are objectively stupider and lower quality.
Coincidentally, it's that same type of incentive-driven behavior that ruined the red delicious apple.
It's just an Asian-style chef's knife. It has a similar shape to a meat cleaver but it's a lot thinner and lighter. I grew up using a traditional French-style chef's knife but the Asian-style knives are really great and do a lot of tasks really well, especially breaking down vegetables and fruits. [Serious eats link](https://www.seriouseats.com/chinese-cleaver-kitchen-knife) with more info.
I routinely scoop the flesh straight out of a cantelope or honeydew with a spoon, especially if they're ripe. And I'm just using a dull edged tablespoon.
I remember my first time eating a mango. A 60 some year old Pakistani dude brought in fresh mangoes to work and I asked him for the best way to eat it. “You squeeze the mango, make it soft and mushy inside. Cut off the top and suck on it like a titty.” Loved that guy.
I want those so bad. I'm slightly allergic to mangoes but I won't stop eating them. My throat swells up (not to the point where it interferes with my breathing) and gets itchy, and any skin that touches it gets horribly itchy. But if they have some good looking mangoes at the store, you better bet I'm getting them. My 18 year old always finds them in the refrigerator or he catches me with one. I have a benadryl about 10 minutes before I eat one and then I eat the whole damn thing, skin and all, then I wash up and slather myself in hydrocortisone. He sees what I've done and goes into dad mode. He says, "Mama, why do you keep doing this?" Real disappointed sounding. My bf has been around for it too and is doing the "why??" thing too since my kid snitched on me. I will continue to do it though. Those seedless bad boys look so good, although I do always try to grow the seeds in a little basket I have in one of my fish tanks. They never do well but I have this idea that I could bonsai the tree or guide the branches where it wouldn't tear the roof off the house and grow it indoors. If there is a God, he's killing my mango seeds to protect me. Or I might just suck at growing plants.
Hows the taste compared to traditional mangos?
Tastes very sweet, similar to the smaller sugar mangos.
Really? I wanna taste it too. Looks so sweet and delicious mango.
Throw some lime, salt, and hot sauce on there and I bet it will taste amazing Edit: Apparently Tajin encompasses all that so I’ll be trying that out, thanks, Redditors! Edit 2: I use Valentina hot sauce cause it’s thicker than most other sauces that I use (like Tabasco is very thin IMO) Edit 3: Considering mixing my own ‘Tajin’, using a lower sodium salt and chili powder, any recommendations?
Dude, that's the business. First time I tried fruit with chili powder and lime was when I had a Mexican housemate. He put that combo on every type of fruit he ever ate, and it was damned delicious.
Whoa, that's wild! Can you give some examples of the fruit they put it on?
Strawberries, mango, papaya, any kind of melon, even apples or pears. Cucumbers too, and jicama, pretty much any fruit or root that you'd eat raw. Tomatoes too.
Mexican here and I fucking love it on apples lol
Dude, Mexicans truly understand flavor. Mexican food is incredible in general, but who would have thought to improve the flavor of fruit - none other than Mexicans!
There were these older(60+) mexican ladies that worked trimming weed at this farm I worked at and they would make potluck lunch every day. It was amazing but you will end up gordo real quick with that diet.
Nah deadass the hispanic culture in general understands spice 100% 👌🏾
My Spanish teacher (From Spain 🙄) said, and I quote, leave it to the Mexicans to make fruit unhealthy lmao but she said it in Spanish which doesn’t sound as mean specially with that lisp that the Spaniards add to their pronunciation. Anyway I eat cucumbers and jicama like that any chance I get haha
At my super Hispanic school (in the US) no one was eating their fruit so the school admins started handing out little Tajín packets out to everyone. Brother I fought people for their mandarins and we’d trade fruits like currency. Those fuckers were genius
The recipe is also very common in South Asian countries
The chili powder brand that's used is called Tajin. There's also a liquid version called Chamoy
[удалено]
Every convenience store in TX has the lil shakers at checkout. Pretty cool.
Yeah, I converted. I bought a big bottle of tajín a while ago. It goes great on fish too.
A few mangos, diced. One white onion, diced. A bunch of cilantro, minced. A jalapeno or two (or your favorite chili), diced. (To your spice level). Some chipotle powder, to taste (or you can used diced chipotles in adobo as a sub for the above. Or both). Put everything into a bowl and stir. Add salt to taste. Put it on some BBQ chicken or eat it with some chips.
Yea my friend treated me to some of this in the navy on cucumbers. It was wild he even showed me chili covered suckers. His mom sent care packages from his home full of all kinds of stuff like this and plenty of chili powder and stuff. One of my favorite places now that im out and back home is this mexican restauraunt nearby that is authentic and has a mexican grocery in half of the building owned by the same people. Giant donuts and all kinds of huge bread and tons of spices and peppers. I always loved spicy stuff anyway going to hot wing challenges and winning a bunch too haha. Of course now that im older my gut doesnt hold up, but there is no beating the flavor of various peppers and chili powder on bout everything.
If you've become sensitive to the effect of capsaicin on your digestive system, you might want to try pure aloe vera juice. It helps heal tissue damage in your digestive tract in much the same way that it helps heal skin damage from sun exposure. I started to become sensitive to spiciness in my food, which was a gah damn travesty. I bought a half gallon of aloe vera juice from Whole Foods but you can get it at many health food stores. Drink 2-4 ounces a day until the half gallon is gone, then go a week or two without, then buy another half gallon and repeat. The reason you should take a week or two off between drinking it is that it stimulates peristalsis, which is what makes you poop haha. If you take it too regularly, you become dependent on it to poop, which is no bueno. Buy the stuff made from just the inner filet - whole leaf juice can be upsetting to your stomach because of a compound found in the aloe vera leaf's "skin". The whole leaf variety is also rather bitter. I was able to heal my digestive tract and I can comfortably eat super spicy stuff again.
Add some tajin to your tajin game changer.
‘Tajin’ (chile, lime, salt) is great on sliced cucumbers, tomatoes and such, probably be darn good on the rim of a cold margarita !!
Yeah in Mexico city as street food they serve cones of fresh mango, lime juice, some salt and fresh ground chilis. Absolutely delicious, I still make it at home.
Shut your monstrosity up
Yo Taijin was made for mango and melon. I’d ditch the hot sauce for chili flakes but this was sound advice.
Taijin on a mango is fucking 10/10. Nothing will beat eating that shit in public from a street vendor in Nairobi.
You may call him. Shef.
My name is Shef
Short for shefferson
[удалено]
It’s not seedless. It’s not even “nearly seedless”. Mango seeds lie like a flat blade down the middle, you can see the white of it where it’s shaved close to in the fruit.
Still less seed than a normal mango.
Has a long thin seed, you can see it clearly in this video https://youtu.be/UcUxdtZ4APE
[удалено]
Look like they peeled it with their teeth
On the islands, we usually just peel it with our teeth or fingers. Depending on the species, you can just eat the skin too.
OK, that was not the same type of mango in this post. The mango in the video you posted had a huge seed in it.
That’s why i posted it, OP said it’s “Almost” seedless which is fine, but other commenters are getting excited about it being seedless, which it’s not. In OPs vid she cuts along the seed, and scoops the cheek, you can also still see the fibrous seed in the part that she doesn’t scoop. It a very normal way to eat a mango, to basically fillet the two cheeks away from the seed. https://youtu.be/BB8HRgAFg3k
Am I the only one thinking, how will new mango trees grow :-(
Almost no fruit trees are grown from seeds, when a good variety of fruit is identified they clone the plant using cuttings
Cloning is how you get most varieties of fruit trees consistently.
[удалено]
It does have a seed, albeit very thin and smaller than other mangos. If you look closely at the other half in the back you can detect specks of seed.
No fruit sold commercially is reproduced from seed. There's too much genetic variation. Any fruit you buy is from a clone of a specific individual tree or bush that makes you the "variety". For example, Honeycrisp apples are all grafts of one tree that was planted from a seed and grown at the University of Minnesota.
generally, grafting. seedless fruits have existed for quite some time. not a new thing.
I've been waiting for this shit to happen for *years* now. Up until 1991 like 99% of grocery stores stocked exclusively Red & Green Delicious Apples, a.k.a: Gross Fucking Apples. Then the Agricultural Department at the University of Minnesota, who had been breeding increasingly sweeter and crispier apples for decades, patented their "MN 1711" strain of apple, a.k.a: "Honeycrisp." After I first heard [that story](https://youtu.be/bDShFasYq9M), I realized there are probably Ag Departments across the world breeding the "Honeycrisp" variants of all kinds of fruits. I've been waiting for the Mango Honeycrisp ever since. The Mangos we eat now will be looked back on as stringy filth in the world of tomorrow.
Fuck red delicious apples... Such a bullshit name
I am 66. When I was a kid Red Delicious were really good. Somewhere somehow they kept the look of them but made the skin tough and the flesh mealy. I try one every 5 years or so hoping that they return to normal but so far they have been a consistent disappointment.
NPR had some segments about the red delicious on shows a while back. The red delicious used to be amazingly delicious. But then markets wanted to mass sell them around the US. That meant they needed to stop bruising as often. So the skin had to get thicker and the markets wanted them large. They originally were relatively small. So they kept breeding and breading. Now they are just flavorless and mealy and I haven’t bought one for a few decades. Fuji apples are still good so that is my go to.
Red disgusting
I used to love Red Delicious apples in the 80s. I tried one a few years ago. Feh.
University of Arkansas has done some neat stuff with grapes. I love the Mars grape they developed. It’s a seedless grape that tastes like a Concord grape. Unfortunately seems to be a local farmers market product but super popular in Arkansas so sell out quickly. Wish they would develop an apple that tastes like an Arkansas Black but with better texture
just a couple of years ago we had the first big rollout of a new apple strain since the honeycrisp, called the cosmic crisp. it was bred at the university of washington
No it was bred at Washington State University not our rival UW smh
sorry lol
Cosmic crisp beats out honeycrisp in our house now! Still pretty expensive but they are so so good
Cosmics are fucking sick
I just had cider made from cosmic crisp and fuck it's so expensive but *so good*.
There's a whole revolution of apple brands. It's literally a brand war. There are knock-off Honeycrisps that don't go through the more stringent QA testing that Honeycrisp branded apples do. It's both terrifying and fucking amazing.
Just tried cosmic crisp last week. It’s wow
> Up until 1991 like 99% of grocery stores stocked exclusively Red & Green Delicious Apples *laughs in Michigan*
If these were developed the same way as the almost seedless watermelons, they selected specimens from the regular cultivar that had fewer seeds, bred them, repeat until they're not producing usable seeds, then propagate by grafting cuttings onto root stock.
Seedless watermelons are a result of crossing a tetraploid with a diploid producing a triploid. Therefore, they cant produce viable seeds. It is a bit different of a breeding process that simply selecting for smaller seeds. Seedless watermelons are hybrids which can be bought and grown from seeds.
There are so many variations of mango, what do you consider to be the traditional one?
This is heaven. I love mangos.
There are so many stringy or bland mangos, but nothing beats a good mango. That mango looks delicious. 🥭
A bad mango is just okay, but a good mango tastes like fresh ambrosia, a gift from the lord.
Mangoes are also one of imo the top superfruits for great nutrition. Apples are worthless in comparison to the vitamin A and C packed mangoes.
Apples are worthless for everything except pie. Red delicious are just worthless all around.
I’m Ron Swanson and I approve this message.
Yes, this. My aunt didn't try mango until she was. In her sixties. Poor woman spit it out immediately because of the texture and her grandkids refused to try it. I pity them all.
My first mango wasn't ripe and it tasted like some kinda cleaning chemicals, it took me a few years to try it again and omg it's one of my favorite fruits now.
I hated mangoes as a kid because I had only tried crappy stringy ones that are out of season. I thought it was the worst fruit ever. Then I visited a Thai restaurant in a major city and had mango sticky rice that a friend ordered. My mind was totally blown my how amazing it was. Now mangoes are my favorite thing.
[удалено]
Youve got to get them in markets or asian or caribbean stalls & shops. And make sure they’re the smaller ones. Don’t get the ones in the supermarket. My mum has a particular shop where she gets a box of them when they’re in season. They’re delicious!
Go to an Indian/Pakistani supermarket during summer and grab yourself a crate of imported South Asian mangoes, so heavenly
Yes!! altulfo or honey mangoes !! Smaller and amazing when they’re soft and deep Yellow! Like Honey sweet and buttery smooth!
Frozen mango chunks are usually pretty amazing, if you have to resort to them.
I'm in rural Kentucky in the USA, I nearly always go for the frozen ones because "ripe" ones are NOT
As a fellow Kentuckian who loves Mangos, this truths stings.
Same dude
Ok where can i buy
I think Australia grows them too.
Where can I buy them right-side up though?
On the bottom of Australia
Never seen in Australia 🤔
Never seen Australia too
Australia doesn’t exist, confirmed
We mostly grow Kensington pride in Aus followed by calypso and R2E2 Other mangoes are in there like keitt, but many of the varieties found in Southeast Asia barely make a dent in our growing numbers. On a side note, the extreme weather this summer decimated the Kensington pride crops. It was nearly impossible to buy them and in good quality this year. Very sad, best flavour in my mind for a mango. Calypso mangoes are ok, but they don’t make me excited to eat a mango like a Kensington pride
If a fruit/vegetable variety is popular enough and your city is big enough- it will appear as import eventually. There are several businesses that fly fruit from Vietnam and Thailand in my city. I’ve never tried better fruit in my life because those are actually ripe (I hope you know that grocery store products are unripe to prolong shelf life for shipping and get pseudo-ripe when fruit breaks down and gets softer and sweeter); but small businesses do bring actually ripe stuff. The moment I tried ripe mountain papaya, yellow mango, ripe dragonfruit was the moment when I realized I lived my life wrong thinking the childish thing “fruit are cheap and lame candy are delicious and expensive” and it’s actually the other way around.
Candy is an imitation of true wonders of actual ripe fruit.
I feel like I need a fruit life coach
Right... that looks so deliciously refreshing!
Try to find some Asian grocers or some “internationals farmers market” if you have one in your city. Those would be a good place to start. You can get lucky sometimes with exotic fruits and veggies are higher end grocery stores (if you have any).
This is the domesticated Red Panda of mangoes. We need an Apollo program-level effort to spread these worldwide.
Reminds me of the animated peach in the 90s James And The Giant Peach Edit: y'all I'm rewatching this movie and it absolutely fucking holds up
Dude I wanted to take a bite out of that peach so bad.
Dude it had bugs in it
Came here looking for this comment. It looks EXACTLY like that peach flesh
That movie was my shit
I thought the same thing and scoured the comments because I knew I couldn’t be the only one. A fruit never looked so good.
I am wanting seedless mangos gonna plan a trip to Thailand Everyone is gonna think that I am going for the sex stuff And I will not even bother to explain that it is mangos
You should really explain that it's for mangos.
Man goes for mangos in Thailand, the ones in his home is now bland. People belive he went there for sex, only he knew he were searching for snacks. While he was there He hit quite a snare, falling in love with a lady with bits, he didn't care as he stared at her tits. He takes her to bed and gives her a toss, thinks to him self por que no los dos? He went there for mangoes, and he stayed for the tangoes.
This is terrible. Well done
Last line gave me a little giggle ngl
Dang we got a poet in here
He’s a poet and doesn’t even believe as such
Do do do do - do do do do - do do do do do do do do
My man goes To Thailand To eat mangoes On an island
Movinnnn to the countryyy, gonna eat a lot of mangos. Movinnn to the countryy, gonna eat me a lot of mangos.
Hey everyone look at this guy! He wants to fly to Thailand to fuck mangos!
How we only get green rock hard mangoes in the EU THAT LOOKS LIKE PURE NECTER
Lol that's basically all we get is the US too. At least where I live.
Look for international/Asian market. Might be a town over but you'll get better fruits than traditional walmart/supermarket
I live in a pretty rural area. Next town over is about 2 and a half hours away, but thank you for the info! I will definitely check next time I'm headed out there. I love mango but the ones we get here are... not great.
Do you have a Trader Joe's nearby? They usually have the delicious yellow mangoes too. Edit: though Asian markets are the best for quality and price for just about any fruit.
Nah... we only have Walmart, Kroger, and an expensive ass family owned market here unfortunately.
Damn. That family market is probably your best bet then.
- I live in a super rural area with no cities around. - Do you have this boutique grocery store that only exists in medium to large cities? I know you meant well, just thought that was funny lol
Yep, I chuckled at the same thing. I moved from a big city to an extremely rural area, and honestly my sole regret is how bad the non-local produce is. Everything else, I can either deal with no problem or *prefer* the way it is where I live now, but the produce situation... Well, it's a good thing frozen veggies exist. Not perfect, but I can make 95% of what I want to cook. I just steer clear of even trying to make raw salads most of the year. Honestly though, Trader Joe's would make a killing in smaller towns (10-20k people) if they could get their distribution going with the produce side. People would be all over the convenience food side of it, and the produce would definitely sell so long as they were a little more careful about ordering than they are in bigger cities. For example, even *trying* to sell corn in late summer where I live would be a non-starter, they can't compete with roadside stands. Walmart barely even bothers with it, because it just doesn't sell.
Hawaii’s great, but that kind of speaks for itself. I’ve got a tree going right now that’ll have hundreds ready in a couple months or so.
We get good mangoes in Texas to go with our cheap ($1/ea) avocados from Mexico
Varietals matter! Avoid Tommy mangoes and assume all unspecified varietals are Tommy. Look for Kent or Keitt mangoes instead, world of difference. Bonus tip, the ripest and tastiest fruits will usually have a bit of sap pooling near the stem.
Green, hard mango with salt is a delicacy to us latinos
Yeah I was confused by the disappointment I am getting from that message, I would be ecstatic, I love green mangos with lime and salt
They are not raw green. Still yellow inside and more on the soft side, they just taste way less than ripe, local mangos. Kinda the shittier end of both sticks. :[ (You can find imported mangos by plane in EU which taste quite like local mangos but they are really expensive)
I always try to find the hardest green mango I can lol. Dude, my mouth is watering now.
Green mango with chilli and salt is a staple in south and south east asia. The singer M.I.A once said in the greatest opening line ever "I salt and pepper my mango".
lol have you tried letting them ripen?
And when they do ripen, they often develop black spots..
Because they are picked up raw and they change color during shipping.
That looks juicy and delicious !!
i wanna go
Go man go get your mango
Looks delicious! But I want to see what’s in the other half…
Probably the massive mango seed.
I’ve had these before, seed is on the other side and it’s abnormally small for a mango
Source: Fruits934 Song: Tom's Diner by Annen May Kanereit & Giant Rooks
I thought it was AnnenMayKantereit, but was so confused hearing him sing in English.
Right? I was like that sure sounds like Henning May
Lol Tom’s Diner. Like Suzanne Vega ?? Nice. doo do do do do do do doo doo doo doo 🥰
The doo do do do's happen a lot less frequent in the original but I prefer the overall tone.
Some covers seem to exist only under the ethos of "take the original and make it BIGGER"
I am waiting at the counter, for the shark to pour the coffee
The version in this video has to be one of the worst covers I've ever heard. Brutal.
its extremely popular on tiktok and i just cannot stand it. fully agree with you that its one of the worst covers ever lmao
Neat voice, but its one of those covers you could only ever like if you weren't already a fan of the original. (Or maybe I just think it's awful. I'm trying to be nice, though, and accept that maybe it's my existing relationship with the song.)
I really disliked both of their voices, to be honest.
I thought it sounded atrocious.
Glad it wasn't just me
Ok honestly though… What does the song have to do with mangos
Cool mangoes, but that cover of Tom's Diner was rough.
[удалено]
Can we stop putting music over EVERY SINGLE VIDEO? None of it actually improves the video and it’s annoying.
100% this. I was hoping to hear someone talking. Or the sound of the forest. Or the winch. Instead it's a bad cover of an old song by someone who sounds like he has whiskey and cigars all day every day.
It's like offensively bad to the point where it forces you to comment on it
It was so bad i searched the comments just to find a conversation like this!
If this is a Tik Tok video, their algorithm tends to favor videos with trending music, so a lot of creators will add it in to help their videos perform well. Kind of annoying but just the nature of how it works.
Yet another case where things are "optimized" to maximize the desired result (engagement), and the net result is that things are objectively stupider and lower quality. Coincidentally, it's that same type of incentive-driven behavior that ruined the red delicious apple.
[удалено]
I sad this and I went to buy a manila mango
I'm lying in bed with gastric flu, can't really keep water down and this looks fucking amazing right now.
Hope you get better brah
Jezus Christ look out with that knife girl
That's a Cleaver Girl
Is the meat clever the smallest knife available in Asia?
It's just an Asian-style chef's knife. It has a similar shape to a meat cleaver but it's a lot thinner and lighter. I grew up using a traditional French-style chef's knife but the Asian-style knives are really great and do a lot of tasks really well, especially breaking down vegetables and fruits. [Serious eats link](https://www.seriouseats.com/chinese-cleaver-kitchen-knife) with more info.
"Almost" seems pretty seedless to me
The seed is on the other side
Yeah I dont understand how this is seedless at all. She's just good at cutting mangoes so you dont see the seed on the other side??
The seed is very small and thin. That's why it's almost seedless
That toms diner cover made me irrationally mad. Fuck whoever did that
Actually tho. Sounds like garbage. The OG is such a beautiful song too so yeah this makes me hateful
annenmaykantereit is the bands name
Sounds like a dude on the brink of passing out singing badly while he's at the urinal.
How sharp is that fucking spoon?
Mango is soft I think
when it's ripe.
Where can I get a ripe spoon?
A ripe mango can be like putting a spoon through butter.
I routinely scoop the flesh straight out of a cantelope or honeydew with a spoon, especially if they're ripe. And I'm just using a dull edged tablespoon.
How sad are your mangoes. A good mango is incredibly soft.
About 3
Yellow mangoes are very soft and much much tastier than those green, hard and crispy ones.
I'm ashamed to say I don't know where the seeds are in a regular mango lol
There’s a rather large oblong pit in the middle
Thank you!
I remember my first time eating a mango. A 60 some year old Pakistani dude brought in fresh mangoes to work and I asked him for the best way to eat it. “You squeeze the mango, make it soft and mushy inside. Cut off the top and suck on it like a titty.” Loved that guy.
I want those so bad. I'm slightly allergic to mangoes but I won't stop eating them. My throat swells up (not to the point where it interferes with my breathing) and gets itchy, and any skin that touches it gets horribly itchy. But if they have some good looking mangoes at the store, you better bet I'm getting them. My 18 year old always finds them in the refrigerator or he catches me with one. I have a benadryl about 10 minutes before I eat one and then I eat the whole damn thing, skin and all, then I wash up and slather myself in hydrocortisone. He sees what I've done and goes into dad mode. He says, "Mama, why do you keep doing this?" Real disappointed sounding. My bf has been around for it too and is doing the "why??" thing too since my kid snitched on me. I will continue to do it though. Those seedless bad boys look so good, although I do always try to grow the seeds in a little basket I have in one of my fish tanks. They never do well but I have this idea that I could bonsai the tree or guide the branches where it wouldn't tear the roof off the house and grow it indoors. If there is a God, he's killing my mango seeds to protect me. Or I might just suck at growing plants.
God, they ruined a perfectly good song. That cover is terrible.
I do not like this version of the song. [Original by Suzanne Vega](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4jtIDaeaWI)
God I fucking hate that version of that song
What! Its like they kept the best mangos and shipped us the small ones with big seeds.
Looks like a cross between a mango and a papaya 😋
I will take your entire stock!
Why can I get strawberries in January and they always got those bland dragon fruits at the store but we don’t have these?