# I got lucky today. I found a guanabana! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641 "2018-05-22T23:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641/21 "2018-06-14T00:23:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > My lucky fruit find this week was some jackfruit. You see it sometimes processed as a meat alternative but it’s rare to see it being sold as fruit. But they had some at a local supermarket this weekend. I also got some donut peaches, which are early. That one is a regular at my supermarket. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641/22 "2018-06-14T05:37:49Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I found a few today at my Mexican supermarket and thought of this thread. Holy cannoli are they expensive. $11.99 a pound! I bought one fruit for almost $8. And this is at a supermarket where limes are ten to the dollar and small hass avocados go for two for a buck on sale. Expensive here too! Mine was 120 pesos for 1.5 kilos. When you consider the minimum wage here is less than 90 pesos/day. Guanábanas are not for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641/23 "2018-06-14T05:59:28Z")
Sounds like across between quano and banana. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641/24 "2018-06-14T13:39:52Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Sounds like across between quano and banana. What’s quano? (All my googling is just giving me results for guano.) Anyhow, I let it ripen for another day before digging into it. I could have sworn I had some in the Yucatan when I we went to Progresso and Merida a few years back, but I don’t remember eating it at all. Though I remember it as cherimoya, which is very similar, but harvested more in Central and South America from what I can tell. Very interesting flavor. Texture of bananas, taste of mango, apple, pear, maybe peach, pineapple, and a nice balance of sweet and sour. Pain in the ass to eat with all the pits, though. Definitely delicious, but a bit too spendy to make a habit of them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641/25 "2018-06-14T20:52:41Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > What’s quano? (All my googling is just giving me results for guano.) > … I was confused about the spelling, which means that my admittedly dumb joke doesn’t work. Just ignore me. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641/26 "2018-06-14T21:47:07Z")
I’ve seen it jarred in Salvadorian shops around here. Never fresh though. I didn’t realize they’re so big. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641/27 "2018-06-14T22:08:02Z")
It’s funny to me to hear a fruit described as like a combination of mangoes and something else, because I think of mango as being like a combination of banana, orange, and strawberry. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641/28 "2018-06-15T02:05:34Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It’s funny to me to hear a fruit described as like a combination of mangoes and something else, because I think of mango as being like a combination of banana, orange, and strawberry. Yeah, it’s kind of an all-in-one Willy Wonka sort of fruit, I’d say. To me, mango represents that sweet-and-sour “tropical fruit” flavor that I can’t quite sum up in any other way. I could see banana, orange, and strawberry, but that doesn’t quite capture the “tropics” flavor I taste in mango. Like papaya also has that “tropics” thing going on, but with a bit of funk. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641/29 "2018-06-15T03:53:40Z")
In ongoing exotic fruit news, I went back to the same supermarket tonight. I bought some more jackfruit and donut peaches. And this time they also had lychees. I also bought some apples. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-lucky-today-i-found-a-guanabana/814641.md?page=1)