• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I got to travel Southeast Asia for a time, it’s atrocious how much we’re missing out on in the USA.

    Even the really fresh coconuts here just don’t compare to the ones you get fresh off a tree. It’s unreal. Don’t get me started on my Mango Rant.

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      19 hours ago

      They exist in FL and I’ve climbed trees to get em. I like em when they’re yellow. Delicious coconut water and basically a coconut “jelly” lining. I also lived in the Caribbean my early life (2-7) so had a lot down there too, plus fresh sugarcane, guava, mangoes, and a thing we called a plum but was a small tree fruit that I also loved yellow ripeness. After a quick Google evidently called a June Plum or a hog plum. Used to eat em straight from the tree.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      I lived in the US Virgin Islands as a kid. Our back yard had a seemingly endless supply of mangoes, bananas, avocado, lime, oranges (the real stuff, not the engineered shit we eat in the mainland), grapefruit, bread fruit, acerola, plantains, and pigeon peas. It wasn’t even that big a yard. Shit just grows.