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My top three were Green Skin, D104, and Kuhn Po Ang Bak. Oh, wait, those are Durian and I'm still in Malaysia...no wonder I missed this...Florida next.
Great mango reviews by the original Broward taste testers. What did you eat for the interludes to take away from the mango tastes? So you could taste (savor) the next mangoes better? I don't think you can compete with JF's mother when JF throws a Los Angeles mango do. On any given Sunday, an inferior but ripe backyard mango is better than a store bought mango. This is 85% true.At Aldi yesterday they were selling large Florida mangoes. 59¢ each. Hard but red and colorful. Publix also usually brings in real Fl mangoes this time of year. Broward meat and Fish must have too.Anyone who buys from Aldi Publix, let it sit for a few days, let us know how it pans out.Aldi also has the ripest looking Lake Chelan cherries for $1.79/lb. I abstained due to local mangoes. I track cherry prices and back in 2004 the first cherries of the season were $2.39 or so and would sink back to $1.99 as they flooded in and improved.Hass prices are also down due to many Mexican plantations coming on line. Getting Hass avocado on the East Coast used to mean it was California grown and more expensive. Mexican grown going for 49¢ twice within the last month.
The Florida mangos are sweet but very "washed out" and have been going for 79c to 99c each. The fruit almost looks striped as many are leaking juice from the top.
Orkine - actually not trolling him at all and a big thank you for your PM to me.Sometimes I'm just a bit naive and I'm sorry I got him mad at me. People higher up in the thread were talking about their grocery store finds and I just talked a bit about what I found locally here.Coming from Buffalo, New York, snow capital of the world where the best price we ever saw on mangos was 3 for $5.00, after moving to Central Florida and starting to learn my way around a bit (and a huge thanks to all here that i've learned from), i honestly thought i was contributing something. Had no intent to take away from the original poster or get bs mad at me or was trying to troll him. I look up to him and all the other more experienced folks too numerous to mention for their feedback and especially their answers when I've had questions.I unfortunately haven't had a chance to take a trip down to South Florida for this mango season and with work and all I'm not sure I'll be able to so to bs, the OP and others at the event please take my apology. Didn't mean anything by it.
Don't mind the mango snobs :-)I've actually had some decent store mangoes: Ataulfo from Mexico tend to be good.