Best Fruit Poll.

xp Starfruit are so bland.

starfruit and dragon fruit are both all style no substance (though both can work in a fruit salad if used sparingly)

“Strawberries overrated” this is true of store bought berries but tiny wild ones are amazing

Voted peach over nectarine bc haven't had a terrific cherry in a couple years

i am coming out of my self-imposed exile for this post: i must give all praise to the paw-paw, truly the one good falling fruit and one of the most amazing things a person can ever taste— like a banana custard inside a green-brown shell. they’re so incredible that we have secret spots where we harvest them. if you are ever on in the mid-Atlantic during their brief season, seek them out.

see you all again in a week, go paw paw

I think in some ways the Meyer lemon is my favorite fruit. It is a cross between a citron and a tangerine. It is slightly sweeter than a lemon, has a thinner skin, rounder shape, and a slightly spicy orangey flavor.

According to wikipedia: “The Meyer lemon is commonly grown in China in garden pots as an ornamental tree. It became popular as a food item in the United States after being rediscovered by chefs such as Alice Waters at Chez Panisse during the rise of California cuisine starting in the 1970s.”

It is seen in gardens throughout California, and thrives even in foggy San Francisco. I have several friends with Meyer lemon trees in their yards.

Meyer lemons are really great in cooking, especially in braised dishes and with any kind of fish. My main interest in them began when I started cooking Moroccan tagines.

Since then I’ve been obsessed with Meyer lemons preserved in salt and lemon juice. The process of making jars of them is ridiculously easy, they last forever, and the salted lemons take on an even spicier character over time. My favorite recipe using them is Zuni’s pasta with preserved tuna, preserved lemons and pine nuts.

This year I tried making Meyer lemon marmalade, which is also great

since it feels like we're just choosing fruits to eat though, I'm going with raspberries. My father grew them on our property in upstate NY when I was a kid. We had them in some form or other for dessert pretty much every day in the summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VEeaU-KLKs

In my early childhood we had figs and mulberries (red & white both) growing in the yard! glaring omissions both. fresh figs and mulberries are spiritual nourishment for me, an anchor to my past and a source of strength.

members of my extended family planted cuttings of that fig tree in london and long island, they grow despite the colder climate!

I didn't leave out mulberries! Sorry tho fig lovers

so you didn't! my bad.

i think "choosing fruits to eat" is a nice way of thinking about this, though I'm most inclined towards JCLC's view that watermelon is king, and "amazing in salads" is a big part of that... with, yeah, hon mention for short season peaches. wild strawberries a contender, if the the ones you normally get from the supermarket are a deal breaker. and where's the love for concord grapes?

going with the "technical fruits" like tomatoes and chilies = lame imo

I have a lot of love for concord grapes, we have two vines that are at least 30 years old and we steam juice them every year, it's the season right now and we just finished.

but lime, lime makes everything better. watermelon? throw some lime and salt on that. browning apple slices? just a bit of lime. it's the glue of the fruit world, bringing tastes together since time immemorial. plus, margaritas.

for absolute ripe perfection, nectarines just edge out peaches imho, but I've already voted

lime juice as an ingredient is essential, true. i even use whole dried limes in my favorite herb stew. "choosing fruits to eat" where they fall short

fair

voted mango because when i saw the poll i was eating dried mango. it's so good you can even have it dried

^^great criteria for good fruits

Big fan of dried bananas

bananas that are just beginning to get ripe, that have a partially green peel and are firm are the best bananas imo. once they start getting brown spots I'm not interested

Strawberries locally grown and picked are incredible, as are home-grown tomatoes and same-day fresh picked corn. That's like a holy trinity of amazing farm produce.

i grow my own strawberries and they cannot even compare to the driscoll's garbage in US stores.

dried mango is so fucking good. sorry for swearing.

I think I like oranges and watermelons best, taste-wise - but find myself eating bananas most because they aren’t messy and come in their own little jackets.

Also where’s the dragonfruit?!

honestly i love all of you and i'm trying to give up aggro for lent but "durian" is some extremist "i prefered their first album" bullshit and pack it in with that

i mean there's a lot of other ridiculous fronting on here but let's start there

Lemon for me. Don’t eat them straight up anymore after they were ruining my teeth. But still use lemon in all sorts of salads, dips, seafood, etc.

Wait, what?!

Oh and a good lemon sorbet is heaven

https://media1.tenor.com/m/7J3pMZn4Gc4AAAAd/mcdom89-simpsons.gif

honestly i love all of you and i'm trying to give up aggro for lent but "durian" is some extremist "i prefered their first album" bullshit and pack it in with that

― Yuwen Hu's army (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 September 2024 04:58 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Genuinely one of my favourite fruits, fuck off.

accused of being a poseur for liking a particular fruit, wtf

Once bought an entire durian, the guy cut it up and put in plastic boxes for me, half-filled the little fridge in my flat, then my school gave me a new flatmate the very next day, he also turned out not to be a fan of durian at all.

I'll have you know that I liked your favorite fruit before they were cool

Raspberry gets my vote, it’s the fruit I eat every day when I can

Tomatoes do not function as fruit from a culinary perspective, but are my favourites and most-used on this list. If tomatoes are here, by the by, where are our peppers?

Apples are my favourite of the tree fruits, followed by peaches— a good peach beats a good apple, but good peaches are rare; I’ve even more disappointing peaches than excellent ones

Most underrated fruit, for me, is the “European” cantaloupe— not the American version that ruins fruit salads everywhere, but the gorgeous flamed fruit that you get in Austrian markets

excuse me American cantaloupe is goated and agua de melon is one of the most delicious drinks ever made

durian is crazy good, finally tried it last year lol.
American cantaloupe and honeydew... my lord, honeydew <3

melons .. so many of them and they're all so good

with melons though, lots of trash at the supermarkets. much better fresh and locally grown. it's one of the fruits that grows here particularly well, along with most orchard fruits.

fruit salad is kind of gross and gory and unpleasantly overstimulating imo

raspberry. also raspberry + lemon for best 2 fruit combination

Banana and blueberry go much better in/on pancakes!

The grocery store near me has what they call "personal watermelons" in the summer. They're the size of a soccer ball you'd buy for a small child before they're old enough to really play the game, and they're fucking amazing. So yeah, watermelon.

sometimes i can't even believe that i'm lucky enough to eat fruit whenever i want. its so good!

xxxxp no, it (fruit salad) is good

Good fruit salad is good, bad fruit salad (like chunks of apples, bananas and melon mixed in a bowl with resultant juice) is bad.

yes, the resultant juice is what ails me

Looking through this list and tempted to make it my mission to try all of them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_culinary_fruits

This is one I used to be given as medicine in china, a tangerine-sized dry gourd, you put it in hot water and the tea (for the want of a better word) is sweet and slightly medicinal-tasting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siraitia_grosvenorii

Fruit salad is amazing, especially with some cottage cheese.

@ Joan Crawford I’m mystified by your goating of American cantaloupe, some fruit salad vendors hawk their product by advertising its absence