It's been a long journey for the king of fruits.
A year after the U.S. lifted a ban on Pakistani mangoes, the first commercial shipment of the prized Chaunsa variety landed in New York last week.
They aren't cheap. Considered among their somewhat biased fans to be the world's tastiest mango, the fruits are selling for $80 to $100 for a box of six after the sole U.S. importer had to get them from Lahore to Chicago, over to Iowa for required irradiation and, finally, to New York.
Meet Abid Butt, president of Food Street Of New York Inc., a Queens-based food importer who has become Mr. Mango in the Pakistani community.
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