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A photo of a man's hand holding up a mango. In the background are dozens of boxes of more mangos.

Episode 103: The King of Fruit

Episode #103

2024-12-04 05:00:06

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One night in 2018, Ahmed Ali Akbar rented a car and drove two hours to the Detroit airport. He was picking up a package for his cousin – over a dozen boxes of a very special fruit.

If you want to learn more about this story, you can check out Ahmed Ali Akbar’s article for Eater, “Inside the Secretive, Semi-Illicit, High Stakes World of WhatsApp Mango Importing,” and his story about MangoZZ for The Chicago Tribune.