Best Fruit Poll.

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

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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

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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

Thought while reading the list, were has all the carob gone? As a gen x child of hippies, I ate a lot of carob instead of chocolate, don't think I've seen any this century.

Apple. It has to be apples. Read your bible ffs.

mystified by your goating of American cantaloupe

one of my favorite flavors all my life -- as I say, in agua de melon it's the greatest thing, for me no other agua is on that level.

homemade fruit salad is one of those joys I always forget to make. with a little shredded coconut? divine!

ive voted orange the fruit not the order

aye lad as you do

Grapefruit is powerful. To children it is violence.

Grapefruit was my favorite citrus as a kid! It had the requisite outre-ness and just seemed out there, like olives, anchovies, dandelion salads and smoked meats

I still love grapefruit but don't consume it much now. It interferes slightly with the statin I'm taking, but that's not the reason.

I just don't eat proper breakfasts or lunches any more, where when I was a kid if you were hosting company it would be served halved, with a knife run down next to the skins in each section to make it easier for guests to spoon out (I know that's a very 1970s Sunset Magazine conception of it)

Muscadine

Nectarine/pineapple as fave eating experience and sweet thing, but tomatoes fit into every meal and almost all parts of my diet

My favorite flavor as a kid was currant, but I guess that tracks

Can't think about grapefruit for breakfast (and yeah, I've had it — I was alive in the 1970s) without thinking of this famous Hunter Thompson bit:

I like to eat breakfast alone, and almost never before noon; anybody with a terminally jangled lifestyle needs at least one psychic anchor every twenty-four hours, and mine is breakfast.

In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home—and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed—breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crêpes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned-beef hash with diced chilies, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of key lime pie, two margaritas and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert…Right, and there should also be two or three newspapers, all mail and messages, a telephone, a notebook for planning the next twenty-four hours, and at least one source of good music…all of which should be dealt with outside, in the warmth of a hot sun, and preferably stone naked.

xp it was current back then but now its passéfruit

Someone upthread said they didnt know what mulberry is - its more or less blackberry, except a bit less tart. My grandparents had a mulberry tree in their yard we werent allowed to climb because we'd always end up stained all over with mulberry juice.

But soz I think I'm going to have to vote tomato for sheer usefulness. That or lemon. Honestly i'm not much of a fruit eater. I hate rockmelon/honeydew/watermelon for the same reason I hate cucumber - theres something in that flavour profile that curls my toes.

On the rare occasion I bother with fruit it'll be kiwi/strawbs/raspberries when in season, usually at xmastime accompanied by chocs and pavlova.

Brian o driscoll cogent here re tomatoes tbh

xp red and white mulberries have a mild taste that's closer to figs than to blackberries.
black mulberries are more comparable to blackberries but blackberries are bolder overall (and yes, more tart)

much love for crisp little currants that burst between your teeth all puckery sour and sweet! ain't had any since i was a small thieving child swiping them from a neighbor's yard. come to think if it, wtf, i'm an adult, i can probably source my own currants now, what am i even doing with my life?

voted cherries of course: many are bad but you can still fairly often find transcendently magnificent specimens of a season. gorgeous black cherries, their firm flesh yielding spurts of sweet crimson nectar, oooooh. and the bright tart ones are incomparable in pie/crepes/pistachio cardamom cakes.

respect to figs as well, since (1) they eat wasps and (2) they're a yummy little bag of crunchy seeds (and digested wasp)

I've never had a mulberry, but blackberries are awesome.

My family had a currant bush when I was growing up. Currants are incredible, they are both sweet and tart, they are very firm berries and are perfectly astringent

As far as savory entries go, olives are also a fruit! They are a huge part of my life - in olive oil, as an appetizer, as an ingredient in many dishes, on pizza, in martinis, in salads, etc. etc.