Rotten fruit

In a previous life, I owned a mango orchard near Darwin, so I was incensed this week when the first mangoes of the season appeared in Coles, but they were all soft and obviously unfit for sale. No worries, I thought, Woollies are the 'Fresh food people', they will have some decent mangoes; but no, Woolies' mangoes were just as bad. OK; so I will drive 20 km to the north and try the fruit stand near Beerwah; they must be providing quality mangoes to the tourists flocking to the Australia Zoo. Rotten mangoes again! Is it beyond the wit of man to put some acceptable mangoes out for sale? A rotten mango is an abomination. As Kipling (almost) said, a woman is only a woman, but a good mango is a delight.

Rocker

perhaps the mangoes were affected like the bananas were?? do supermarkets keep fruit frozen away somewhere for times like that hence the bad state of the fruit??

It ruins mangoes to freeze them; but I think the supermarkets just buy mango seconds, thinking that customers won't know whether they are buying good fruit or not; I just want to know where the good stuff goes to.

Rocker

Rocker,

We are 6 1/2 drive from Brissy Produce markets, which means we never get top quality fresh produce. I too would like to know where it goes.

I suspect it is exported, as I have bought fresh export beef, direct from abatoir (as I sell my cattle there) and it always, yes always melts in your mouth!!
Cheers :)

Interestingly, I too get rotten mangoes. Also I wouldn't touch export beef with a barge pole. Export quality beef ain't the good stuff. ;)

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Originally Posted by outback

Also I wouldn't touch export beef with a barge pole. Export quality beef ain't the good stuff. ;)

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If the export beef isn't the good stuff then there must be some absolutely stunning steaks out there.

I used know an accountant with D R Johnson's (meat abbottiors, delivery, export etc) when they were at the Homebush meatworks - pre olympics - and the cryovac export quality fillet was to die for. It was soooo good it was addictive. This was the stuff destined for Japan and the US only. I haven't tasted steak as good as that anywhere in Aus since - too bad they knocked the place down for a stupid stadium, but then again the place really did get on the nose.

The Mango's here are solid and big
To hard to buy.

I used to get my SIL at Moruya to get me some peaches ,she had a contact at Ardlethan ,man the peaches were absolutely beautiful never tasted a peach like them before or since. Joker she used to get them from used to say
"You won't buy peaches like that in the shops anywhere!" ,bludger used to supply all the top restaurants in Sydney with them,he wasn't wrong about that.They get the cream,we get the crap in Colesworths etc:mad:

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Originally Posted by Rocker

so I will drive 20 km to the north and try the fruit stand near Beerwah

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Rocker you must be pretty desperate.

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Originally Posted by coastie

"You won't buy peaches like that in the shops anywhere!" ,bludger used to supply all the top restaurants in Sydney with them,he wasn't wrong about that.They get the cream,we get the crap in Colesworths etc:mad:

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It works the other way too... we get our apples, pears and cherries direct from a local orchard at ridiculously low prices, (like $2 a picking crate! :eek: ) 'cos the supermarkets won't accept 'em. Apparently any blemishes and the rep just turns down the whole crop and moves on to the next orchard. No wonder so many orchards around here are disappearing into history. :(

Yet apart from a few minor flaws, such as "callouses" on the skins from rubbing on branches, etc. this is Delicious Tucker. I dunno what orchards are supplying the local supermarkets, but I can tell you that although they look good, I'd much rather eat a reject!

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Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

.... although they look good, I'd much rather eat a reject!

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Yeap, the good ones are chockas full of chemicals to make them look good.... pity they don't taste as good as they look. :rolleyes:

Methinks they are sending the good un's to Vic. Bought our first mangoes for the season at the weekend and they were beautiful! But geez I miss the bananas!
Jeff

Got lots o Bananas over here and they are just great 99c kilo about 86cAUD kilo. And the mangos are good to, sorry they don't come from OZ but central America.:D :D

Peter

Hmmmm can't eat any Mango, something about them makes me wanta chuck.

In Malaysia we had the grandaddy of all Mango out the front of our house. Never saw one get anywhere near ripe as they were forever being picked by the locals.

Just remembered the smell of ripe Durians, and the prawn factory, and the cesspool at the station. There goes my lunch.
The exotic smells of asia?

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Yeap, the good ones are chockas full of chemicals to make them look good.... pity they don't taste as good as they look. :rolleyes:

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If we are still on mangoes, I beg to differ Cliff. I too used to grow mangoes in Darwin. Not big time, 2-300 trees, but I'll tell you we grew the best looking, tasting and close to the biggest mangoes I have ever seen. No bragging there - just fact. And the ONLY chemical EVER used on them was Dimethoate (Rogor) at packing time, which was mandatory for fruit fly control.