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I was going to post the same thing: rarely a peoblem with cantaloupes, but honeydew are either hard as a rock and tasteless or overripe and pure mush. A just right one is few and far between. I don't buy them often anymore.
I can tell by feel with a mango and this summer in FL they were 10 for $10 for several weeks straight. We ate quite a few and froze even more.
You can grow mangoes in Florida.
Most of the country can't.
And we get these highly nebulous shipments of various colored, sized, and textured fruit...and get charged more than a buck.
I lived in Indonesia for nine years. I had a mango tree in my backyard. Actually I had several. I know mangoes and I know how to select mango given reasonable mangoes to select from.
Avocado, where I am (i.e. far from any growing regions). Nothing worse than ones that feel and look ripe, but, when cut into, are already past their prime.
You never really know what a mango is going to do.
Given the price, it's a $$ risk.
Look for a mango with some dried syrup around the stem. Someone told me that a few years ago and since then, I've followed that advice and never ended up with a bad mango.
Which fruits are the biggest "Russian roulette" purchase?
For me, it's a cantaloupe. They are difficult to pick out. Sometimes I get a perfect one that's the right firmness and sweet, but other times they are too mushy, or too hard and lack sweetness. I'd say that one out of three cantaloupes I buy is a dud.
Cantaloupes are among the easiest fruits to pick out. The seeds are released when they are ready to eat. Just shake them and listen. No sound = probably too hard. Just a little sound and its perfect. Too much sound and it may be overly ripe.
Most fruits, you can tell by the smell. Little or no scent? Pass it by. Smells good? it probably tastes good, too. Cantalopes, strawberries, and peaches/nectarines are probably the easiest for this. Honeydew are notoriously difficult to tease out a scent.
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