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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.

Peach

None, I grew up with a mango tree in the backyard.

It was heaven.

Almost all of them.

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.

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.

Literally all of them.

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.

Perfectly ripe peaches (and other stonefruit)

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

Cantaloupe - when it's not pre-cut with a possibility of salmonella

Banana

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.

Nothing. A mango is literally heaven. So juicy.

Figs fresh off the tree.

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.

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.

Anything, as I don't like mangos.

Seriously though, oranges.

Pawpaws

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.

A good kaki Edit: sorry, persimmons they are called in english i think

Team strawberry

Manstays

Pink Lady apples for me. Can't get enough of them.

Pricly pear cactus fruit and those red, sea urchin lookin fruits (i forgot their name)

Edit: called rambutan fruit

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.

Strawberries

A good grapefruit is so juicy and sour.. I love them!! I peel them like an orange and devour it like a ravenous wolf tearing flesh from bone.

Raspberries are also frikkin amazing. I remember as a kid, we went to a farm where you could pick your own, and I just ate so many while picking that I got sick in the field and couldn't get up. 10/10 would absolutely do again.

But honestly.. now that I think about it, I may choose a good mango over both. 🤔 But still. All 3 are excellent and amazing fruits! I wish I could try more delicious fruits I haven't had yet!

Oranges. They taste better and it doesn't have that stringy flesh like mangoes does

Durian you fools! King of fruit, a divine and complex flavour.

Toffee and onion and sour cream and mango and banana and custard and pineapple all dance together. Ah durian, the only fruit worth travelling for to eat fresh off the tree.

Durian my beloved.

Mangos taste like black pepper to me, so pretty much any other fruit tastes better.