had to make a separate post for FRUTA DE HOY!!!!! turns out when you have an ed it doesnāt magically go away when you cross international borders but one thing that will always get me going is FRESH JUICY DELICIOUS TROPICAL FRUIT!!!!!!!!! shout out @chickernuggy for being my biggest fruta de hoy fan i wish i could bring all these fruit to share with you but itās fucking against the law to bring fruit across the border i hate this country and I LOVE FRUIT!!!! this is a collection of more āexoticā fruits (someone got mad at me for saying exotic fruits but someone else told me they were being dramatic so iām using quotations to be safe) but trust i was eating all varieties of mangoes, papaya, pineapple, and watermelon theyāre just not interesting enough to have a post dedicated to them.
guayabas 9/10 im obsessed with them and i wasnāt that big into guavas before but id murder for a bowl of guayabas i wish yall could smell how good they are ive been looking for a perfume that smells like them they smell like sweet jasmine and lemons but they donāt taste like it at all so itās very hard to describe. taking a point off bc the seeds are really big and get stuck in my teeth and can be sensory ick but the flavor and other textures make up for it. jugo de guayaba also slaps and i think its pretty easy to get in the states too.
8/10 mango piƱa! itās a mango that tastes almost exactly like a pineapple! super super yummy and sour. points off for being small and having a massive seed so thereās not as much of the actual fruit to eat as i would like it to be
star fruit (carambola)! 9/10 my favorite fruit growing up in florida iād always have star fruit and publix sushi for my school lunches on my birthday so these are very nostalgic for me. they taste kinda sour and tangy like if a granny smith apple was a tropical fruit. minus points for it can get brown and mushy on the points and extra points for being in a cute shape.
ice cream bean (joaquiniquil) i saw these at a market in mixteca and got SO EXCITED i got 8 of them which was excessive but i got them and 2 star fruit for $80 pesos which is less than $5 USD and the lady selling them was really sweet she gave me a free one and said my spanish was really good :3 7/10 you eat the white fuzzy pulp around the beans and they have a very mild sweet flavor but texture was weirdly crunchy and wasnāt juicy not bad but not my favorite.
mamey!!! 7/10 tastes like a mix of persimmon, papaya, and sweet potato with a really soft texture. points off for the sweet potato flavor i really hate sweet potatoes and i know that makes me a fake southerner idc. unfortunately mameys go bad really quick the first one my host mom got me was super moldy and the others we had to cut around some bad parts but theyāre pretty big so you get a lot of fruit from them.
my host mom called these aguacatitos (little avocados) and they were really good! 7.5/10 the skin you can eat and is slightly spicy in a peppery star anise kinda way and the avocado part tastes like a regular avocado. i donāt love avocados by themselves but iām sure if i put some salt on it or ate it with something it would be better.
bonus fruit! round as fuck mango. i ate so many fucking mangoes itās not even funny i always think about this tweet that said āiāve had mangoes that were better than entire years of my lifeā and every single mango i had was better than 2015 and 2024 combined and i had one almost every day. mangoes in portland just donāt hit the same and i think itās bc i was so spoiled for mangoes in florida. one of the first times i visited florida after moving to oregon my parents both separately (they lived an hour apart from eachother) got mango dealers (people with mango trees in their yard that have so many mangoes they beg people to take them) and i was eating like 2 every morning for breakfast. they didnāt have any mango dealers when i lived there which was lame but life moves on.
conclusion: my diet is so rich in fiber i need to invest in fiber gummies when i get back to keep her going strong. i really struggled socially with this trip so while i didnāt have a lot of friends here i had a lot of yummy fruit and they are going to be what i miss the most. i didnāt expect fruit to be so nostalgic for me but damn tropical fruit just doesnāt hit the same in the PNW š which makes sense i just donāt lose my mind over a plum like i do for mangoes and now guayabas.
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