I did like the Atoulfo mango that I had never had before, but found the description of it being less fibrous not so true after scraping the peels and seeds with my teeth, as is my wont.
I picked up a mango which is the one most on offer here from Mexico, but haven't been able through searching to give it a name. It's the only one I've ever had access to though, before finding a different variety in the Indian grocer. Woo woo! it was only 59 cents! This is the cheapest price I have ever seen in my life going back to when I saw my first mango. You can believe that If I did not live alone and also picked up local peaches, which have been really good this year, and black, tree-ripened plums, I would have bought many more mangos. This is probably the largest by a small margin of any of this variety I've ever seen. It must be a very good year for mangos in Mexico. I'm sure they are cheap as dirt there if they can get all the way up here with all the beaks that need wetting to get here.
I can't see where I said anything about the mulberry posts upthread. They are not sold that I know of anywhere commercially. When I lived in Virginia, we had cherry trees and a pear tree in out back yard, and one of the neighbors had a mulberry tree in their front yard. I used to eat them off the tree as a kid despite the warnings that I would be instantly poisoned. I don't know where this notion came from here, but it was pervasive, at least back then. I ate a carload of them over the season, though, and they're definitely not harmful. I only ate a few initially after all the other kids' dire warnings, but after that, I was on them. Strangely, even in the face of empirical evidence, the other kids never abandoned their erroneous belief. Has anyone heard of mulberries being on commercial offer here in the US, even in restaurants?
Also I saw some unripe raspberries growing wild on the trek to the grocer today. They are right by the trailhead that starts across a series of three railroad tracks at a cut-through I use where they closed off automobile access a few years ago. It saves me going over a mile out of the way, but I'm willing to bet birds and other wildlife will get those berries before I do. I bet they will be good though. There are also a bunch of grapevines further down the route. Like everything else this year, with all the rain we've had, they are really thriving.
