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Dean and DeLuca had mangosteens for sale today at $8 each. I somehow resisted, even though this is a fruit that I've been very eager to taste for as long as I remember. Otherwise, the store is just a patch on its former self, with far fewer and less interesting items selling for more than they cost anywhere else. $17 for La Tur?
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Mangosteen at Dean and DeLuca
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Suzanne F 
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Posted 18 February 2009 - 12:44 AM
I wonder if they're available in Chinatown? Much cheaper, I'd bet.
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Posted 18 February 2009 - 12:59 AM
$8 a piece seems brutally expensive and I did buy them in Chinatown last year. I don't remember the price, but nothing would have tempted me to spend that. I hope that you try them, wonderfully sweet, citrusy things. I love the glossy white fruit under their purple crust. They taste like nothing else and I remember the fun of sharing them with my best bud who had never had them.
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Posted 18 February 2009 - 01:04 AM
QUOTE(Lippy @ Feb 17 2009, 06:42 PM) 
Dean and DeLuca had mangosteens for sale today at $8 each. I somehow resisted, even though this is a fruit that I've been very eager to taste for as long as I remember. Otherwise, the store is just a patch on its former self, with far fewer and less interesting items selling for more than they cost anywhere else. $17 for La Tur?
not worth it as they will by definition not be good mangosteens (picked early for overseas shipping). much better to plan a trip to singapore or malaysia.
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Posted 18 February 2009 - 02:38 PM
$8 bucks or not - I'm going to buy them. I'll post back on how the quality compares to the ones I've had in Singapore.
Why not mayo?
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Posted 18 February 2009 - 03:21 PM
QUOTE(Anthony Bonner @ Feb 18 2009, 09:38 AM)
$8 bucks or not - I'm going to buy them. I'll post back on how the quality compares to the ones I've had in Singapore.
If they compare at all favorably, I'll spring for one.
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Posted 19 February 2009 - 03:13 PM
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Posted 19 February 2009 - 05:21 PM
QUOTE(Lippy @ Feb 19 2009, 07:49 AM)
Yes. It's my understanding that they are now allowed to come into the country, as are Indian mangoes, if they have been irradiated.
alas, the indian mangoes that are coming in suffer from that same "picked too soon and overpriced" syndrome.
purdah nahin jab koi khuda se, bandon se purdah karna kya?
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if it takes us seven years to prepare for a madness, how long shall it take us to run naked into the marketplace?
~yoruba proverb
facts are meaningless. you could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
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maybe it wasn't the best wording.
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Posted 19 February 2009 - 10:22 PM
Do Indian mongoes have to be irradiated before they can enter the country?
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Posted 19 February 2009 - 11:40 PM
QUOTE(SethG @ Feb 19 2009, 10:13 AM)
When I got bitten by that irradiated spider it wreaked havoc with my photojournalism career.
But you kicked the shit out of the Green Goblin! There's good to be found in every situation.
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