Mangosteen in Vienna - Billa Corso

Yesterday I went to the not so new anymore supermarket Billa Corso. They had Mangosteen... I was eyeing those fruits since forever and only saw them on my last day in Singapore, in a huge net like 20 pieces... couldn't possibly finish them so I didn't buy them. Well, you can imagine I was over the moon when seeing Mangosteen in Vienna :D It was just an amount of 4 for 3,99€, oh well. Kinda expensive when you think about the fruit inside being so tiny, but oh well, for the sake of trying.

But here my misery (or rather having luck in a misery lol) starts: after leaving Billa Corso my friend and I spontaneously decided to go to McDonalds to chat a bit. Note, if we hadn't done so I would have gone into the subway and get back home in that creepy weather. But alas, we didn't. I got a cheeseburger and curly fries and decided to try the Mangosteen as a dessert. First I was wondering if the staff would let me eat my self-brought food in there, but after seeing there were so many people inside I could hardly imagine anyone would care (or rather see me). Ok, finished the McDo stuff and started to try (yeah, what a process) to open one fruit ö_Ö You actually gotta cut the thick peel open and then pull them apart. After a lot of cutting around with my tiny pocketknife on a McDo table my friend (who has already eaten Mangosteen before) pulled the thing apart and told me upon first sight: I don't think this is edible anymore. I had to take a closer look and was seeing MOLD! Inside the Fruit X_X Lots of it... oh noes. There goes 1€. So I decided to open another one since I absolutely wanted to eat one now. The second one was fresher looking from the outside and we were able to cut through it faster. But FML, another moldy one inside --_--

Now that was it, I returned the Mangosteen to Billa Corso and got back the 3,99€. Since the other Mangosteen in the store were already moldy on the outside I didn't want to take the risk again. I was so close to trying an apparent yummy fruit (had some Mangosteen juice in S'pore and some candy gummies here, all yummyness), but goddamn mold prevented it --_-- Oh imagine what would have been if I had discovered all this at home: first trying to decide whether the 3,99€ is worth it to get back to the city and once again back home in the dark, windy and freezing Vienna and then most probably taking this ordeal grumpily... so I kind of had luck. Or so

Oh well, be cautionous when trying to buy Mangosteen in Austria. I can't imagine that other stores would have a different/fresher source for them. If you do know one that has unmoldy Mangosteen please tell!

Rant over, next time you'll get something more pleasurable with pictures again lol. Just had to tell about my miserable recent experience.