I was lucky to grow up in a tropical seaside city in Mexico. Mangoes and papayas were everywhere. Papayas never went to waste, but mangoes were almost a plague, old trees will drop kilos of ripened mangoes every day, and some people had several trees in their backyard.

Our house didn't have a tree, but you could take a bag and just walk around the neighborhood, because people put fresh mangoes on their fences for others to take for free before they spoiled. Naturally ripened mangoes are indeed on a different level, but they last so little before fermenting because they're very sweet.