A local deli just started carrying mangosteens (purple mangosteens, officially; Clusiaceae), long banned in the United States due to fears of Asian fruit flies stowaways. There availability is big news, or least big news for me. Been trying to find this fruit for years, even failing in Costa Rica, Vietnam, and Thailand trips. In Costa Rica I tried to locate them by using very bad Spanish, and succeeded only in making the store clerks blush; they brought out some racy manga, instead.
A local deli just started carrying mangosteens (purple mangosteens, officially; Clusiaceae), long banned in the United States due to fears of Asian fruit flies stowaways. There availability is big news, or least big news for me. Been trying to find this fruit for years, even failing in Costa Rica, Vietnam, and Thailand trips. In Costa Rica I tried to locate them by using very bad Spanish, and succeeded only in making the store clerks blush; they brought out some racy manga, instead.