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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.
Durian: tastes like Heaven; smells like Hell.
One time, I had a box of durian-flavored cookies. (Think Oreos, but with durian filling). I brought them to work to share with my coworkers (because I can't eat a whole box by myself and I didn't plan to leave a partially-eaten and open box to linger in my house).
I knew I was in trouble when I opened the box and realized that each cookie was individually sealed. As soon as I broke the seal on the first cookie the, err, unmistakeable durian scent began to waft through the office.
I'd only managed to convince a single coworker to join my cookie break, but even having opened only two cookies, it wasn't long before someone walking twenty feet distant sniffed the air and asked in a worried tone, "Does anyone smell gas?"
"It's these cookies!"
"Cookies?! No - I smell natural gas, man! Like sulphur!"
"Yeah. It's these cookies. Want one? They're durian flavored!"
"Uh, no."
"They taste better than they smell!"
"...low bar. Still gonna pass on that."
...after the third person worrying about gas leaks, I had to throw away the rest of the cookies. Outside.
Mangos taste like black pepper to me, so pretty much any other fruit tastes better.
If you've been buying the tiny black round ones that come in a grinder, you may want to try the big red ones in the produce section
MangosTEEN....because its more hip. Plus its has more letters in its name.
Raspberries are the ultimate fruit, better than all others. A little sweetness, tart and tangy, good fibre, goes with everything. Mangoes are sickeningly sweet
Black grapes. They're high in antioxidants, actually taste like something, and they have this great crisp, almost crunchy yet still tender consistency. I can eat a few pounds in a sitting if I don't watch out.
Against the mangoes I can get my hands on? Most fruit is better.
The best mangoes are the slightly tangy, firm, fibrous ones you can find in Australia. Those are absolutely unbeatable.
Here in NZ all you can find are the sickly sweet, soft, smooth fleshed mangoes which just aren't the same. Might as well buy the tins of Kesar pulp imported from India.
Avocados
It's hard to compare apples and mangos, but if we're gonna consider favorite tropical fruits, I friggin love fresh mangosteen. It's like a little fruity Bob-bom. Smooth and silky texture, creamy sweet flesh and just fantastic. They don't seem to travel well, unfortunately.
Or fresh pineapple.
I had fresh pineapple off a farmer's cart in the tropics two decades back. Afterward, I couldn't eat pineapple in the US for almost three years. It was so much better than the canned or grocery-store stuff there was just no comparison.
Jack fruit
Good quality berries and grapes
Some berries just aren't fresh/ripe/grown. But once you get a good box of them...
I prefer the green grapes, and on the berry side I love them all: raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, various regional berries
Oranges
Plantains when they're fried.
By themselves, mangoes are pretty top tier
A well grown mango at the perfect ripeness is unbeatable IMHO.
Jackfruit almost gets there with it's unique delicious taste.
i really love mangoes.
All of them.
I'm not really a fan. They have a certain light taste of black pepper that ruins them for me. I guess I'm sort of like the cilantro-soap people.
Mangoes have a black pepper taste to you? I've heard of people not liking mangoes but that one is new. If they are unripe they have this kind of tree resin taste/aroma but even that varies across different types.
Perfectly ripe cherries, pitted and frozen
I really like pears.
Mangoes aren't bad, IMHO, but if I had to give up a fruit permanently, I don't think that it'd be that near the bottom of my list. I'd rather keep standbys that are common in US grocery stores like like apples, oranges, pears, and kiwis.
No fruit is better than mangos.
Garcinia fruit (mangosteens and such, no relation to mangoes).
