mangosteens

Re: mangosteens, the author isn't saying mangosteens taste disappointing, they're saying that finding lots with the 'mustard blight' is disappointing.

In the US, imported mangosteens can run $20 a pound, so getting a few bad ones would be a disappointment.

But in Thailand a pile of mangosteens is so cheap that you wouldn't bother.

I still look at prices for groceries (those mangosteens are pricey) and restaurant items, let alone flight prices.

Yes, but Malaysia PM said there's only mangosteens in the cargo.

And then we'll have conspiracy theories about what happened to the mangosteens en-route.

Some people like to pair durians with mangosteens[0].

While I believe the full manifest has not been published, we do know that there were a few tons of mangosteens present in the cargo.

Tomorrow's headline: no mangosteens in cargo.

It's not as uncommon here as tejocotes, but I'm always chuffed to find good looking and not overripe mangosteens at farmers markets or specialty produce suppliers.

Who downvotes someone over mangosteens??

Most tropical fruit available in the West are picked raw, kept refrigerated and chemically ripened on arrival, but this isn't possible for most of the fruit listed, certainly not mangosteens or langsat/duku.

Mangosteen is so far from its depiction---"to eat a pile of mangosteens is an exercise in disappointment"---that I wonder what kind of pile the author ate.

Mangosteens may be legally imported to the US from SE Asia if irradiated.

Mangosteens are actually easily transported and I've purchased them in a number of Asian markets in the US and London, though quality may deteriorate.

Mangosteens (my favourite fruit) are not at all like mangoes, kiwifruit taste more like a gooseberry than a chicken, dragonfruits are pleasantly delicate but way more bland than the fiery name suggests, and so on.