Talk:Tommy Atkins (mango)

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Please evidence assumption of these mangos being the main kind in the UK, it appears simply unfounded. South Asian mangos dominate the market stalls there, whilst Israeli and Domincan mangos the supermarket. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:3024:1E2C:4000:8CB:E203:4598:C297 (talk) 22:03, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Still so common?[edit]

I marked the statement as dubious because I have loved mangos for decades now, and particularly an offshoot variety of the Tommy Atkins that I can get imported up in Philadelphia from Mexico once a year. This is a huge region of the USA, by itself probably close to the 20% figure (Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, southern Jersey combined has got to be over 30m), and I doubt the rest of the USA is completely without the option to buy other cultivars. I'd like to see a current and authoritative source that says they are sold in 80% of the usa and the uk outside of the growing regions of florida and hawaii. Actually, I almost wouldnt, because all that would do is prove the source unreliable. This was possibly true in the 1980s, but certainly not today. (Here, the common ones are Bombays. Other fairly common ones are like tiny tommies, and the best ones I can get except the once a year ones from mexico are the molgoba-types from peru, mexico, and other places .. and a really sweet one from india that sells for $5 a pop.) --— robbie ^{page talk} 00:39, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You definitely can get locally grown Keitts here in SoCal (and probably over in Florida as well) given the groves of 30,000+ trees in the Coachella Valley as per the cited LA Times article... but I don't know how easily exportable they are to the rest of the US. Then again, if I'm not mistaken, I've also seen Manilas sold in egg-carton-like six-packs in stores out here as well (not to mention Manila trees in our SoCal nurseries)... but I also don't know how easily exportable they are either. Someone who's got more expertise in commercial (i.e. has a mango grove, not just a single mango tree in his/her front yard) mango growing might want to get in on this... —2602:306:BCA6:8300:B432:6BF1:5875:2A57 (talk) 04:54, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]