Me too Maree.
Lychees are very nice but I love Durian and Mangosteen (banned in every hotel in Asia) and I am now fond of persimmons after a friend gave me some they grew.
As a go to, easy to get fruit it is hard to go past mango, a different friend has mango trees in his garden so I swap my lemons for his mangos
Me and my son love Lychees.
I enjoy a Mango too,and its lovely sliced thinly on cereal with ice-cream.
If you like Mango then try this, it is excellent and one of my favourites
BTW tinned mango is crap don’t use it.
@Bruce Yeah, l agree, but mango needs to be properly ripe before you eat it ?
It gives the enzymes time to work !!
Paw Paw is similar ! 
As the man in the movie said “That’s not a knife … THIS is a knife” 
Actually it is The KING of fruits … the DURIAN 
So many stories and also naughty jokes behind this one but as you’re all under 21 I can’t print them here 
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I’ve just had a quick Google. It would seem that this fruit is very, very smelly 
Hi Muddy, I haven’t had any of these in many years and possibly last time was in Indonesia.
I see 6 on the table Muddy, if I post you $100 will you save me one ?
I promise I won’t tell anyone else.
Or even $50 if you just let me smell one ?
Hi Donkeyman,
you’ll have a BIG problem trying to convince many Asian folk of that.
Many of the women and girls, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, and others love to make dishes using sliced green mangoes with Tamarind etc. It is scrumptious.
Across the road from me they have a Tamarind tree growing out front on the footpath & the Aluminium ladder comes out every so often to enable the women to reach the uppermost Tamarind pods to be used with the mangoes.
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Oh YES Chilliboot, but that is only part of its very interesting story ( and the naughty jokes )
It didn’t gain the genuine reputation as the King of Fruits for nothing.
If only you were over 21 Chilli - then I could tell you much more about it .
Oh well…looks like I’m just going to have to wait another couple of years 
Was curious so had to google:
The King of Fruits
If there are “100 things you should taste before you die”, then the durian fruit is certainly in the top ten. Hailed as the undisputed ‘King of Fruits’ in southeast Asia, to westerners this exotic delicacy can be a real ‘Marmite test’: you either love it or you hate it! However, unlike Marmite, the durian’s contentious ambiguity does not lie in its taste, which is delicious, but rather in its disagreeable smell. To give you an idea, the experience of tasting your first durian can be compared to eating custard cream with a dash of Baileys in a men’s changing room crowded with steaming athletes returning from a heavy workout and a sumptuous dinner of raw onions and garlic. Hmm…
So it smells of sweat but tastes really good?
My sense of smell is rubbish so I might have to try one one day 
I love Durian. When I was in Malaysia recently there was a glut of them so they were cheap. Bought some nearly every day from a stall nearby. Even the lgood ones (more, less seed) were remarkably cheap
I had prickly pear juice many years ago in a hotel complex spa in Arizona. It was delicious. Lying on a poolside cabana in 80 degree heat in Feb/March in what was pretty much a luxury oasis in the desert. Those were the days.
Maree I had one of these when on hols in the canaries a few years ago. It was really delicious so yes yours must have been unripe. They do look so pretty and very pink and vibrant.
I really like those little physalis fruits. But I only seen them in store occasionally…
In my youth I loved gooseberries and greengages but haven’t seen them in stores for years, maybe they’ve become exotic?
I’ve seen greengages in M&S and was trying to work out what they are. I saw kiwi berries yesterday and again no idea what these are like.
Mangosteens undoubtably the food of the Gods, whoops I must have said this before .
Oh well getting old
I download an App (Apple) every day and that’s about as exotic as I go with fruit apart from the odd segment of orange or satsuma or whatever they call them now, Mrs Fox hands me while she’s eating one…Oh…and Mr Kipling fruit pies - Blackcurrant and Apple…
