Best Fruit Poll.

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.

lol I absolutely grew up with the grapefruit halves and the little grapefruit spoons. I still like grapefruit but typically find it too much hassle. (if I do have grapefruit now, I like it broiled with caramelized sugar on top, that's pretty good. but a treat, obviously.)

I feel like my ultimate answer is going to be apple. I mostly specifically like a few varieties, granny smiths and honeycrisps, anything on the crisper/tarter side. But there's nothing on this list I don't like — the melon family took me a while, but I came around. Fresh ripe pineapple is amazing, same with mango. Some of these I mostly encounter as cocktail ingredients, where they're crucial. But for go-to versatility and utility, I think the apple is kinda hard to beat. Delicious raw, baked, juiced, stewed, sauced. Indispensable.

I ended up going with tomato. Amazing on its own (summer cherry tomatoes in a bowl is the best snack food ever), in a sauce (duh), gazpacho, on a sando with mayo and soft white bread if you're in the south or any other sandwich ever, in a salad (caprese omg), and as an added bonus it's the default item to throw to terrible stage performers in cartoons

I have 2 paw paw trees. They’re too young to fruit but are they any good? I didn’t get them specifically for the fruit but the description sounded like something I’d want to put in a fruit smoothie.

They are so good. Obvious truism already expressed itt: they're gonna taste like the stars coming straight from your tree vs. the grocery store (generally speaking). I've got a couple trees at my place and springs are made significantly better by them

Also I do no gardening at all besides mow the lawn but they just grow year after year, seemingly more each time, so yeah, nice and easy fruit in your hand

Went with grape as it’s one of the easiest on my acid reflux.

hey Dan, if the S. family bush was in 80's new jersey then maybe i have thieved from you! sorry :/ my larcenous days are well behind me now, i promise. i spent this past summer next to a yard filled with raspberry bushes all ripening to rot and i stole exactly zero berries. some might even call me a hero of self restraint.

this thread has me seriously fiending for good fruit rn. all i've got in is green apples and a wodge of freezerberries -- mediocre!!! would love the fruit fairy to gift me some cape gooseberries as i sleep. like big gold currants, tart and sticky-skinned and full of seeds. how i do love a seedy fruit.

melons, though. i haven't yet learned to love melons. maybe i just haven't met the right melon yet? watermelons are okay, othermelons often seem mucousy to me, with mild flavor that cannot begin to justify their slimy texture.

The slime is part of the charm

Like with Jeremy Irons

Few better experiences in life than eating a cold, ripe nectarine straight from the fridge on a hot summer day. Over the sink of course, as the juices drip down your chin...

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.

― John Backflip (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

I love carob - I never saw it marketed as a health food when I was a kid so to me it was just another type of chocolate. I particularly carob-dipped dried apricots, and I have a carob & rice crispie fudge recipe that’s really good. Whenever I go back to New Zealand, I gorge on a longstanding brand of carob covered apricot muesli bars.

Best fruit in this poll: passion fruit
Best fruit tied with passsionfruit: mangosteen

I used to love stone fruits and berries but they’re not as good in the US, particularly raspberries and blackberries, they have no real flavor.

Oh shit I forgot about tamarillos/tree tomatoes. I haven’t had them in 35 years (I’ve never seen them anywhere except for the vines we had growing in our yard) but they’re amazing, especially with a little sugar sprinkled on them.

i'd never heard of tamarillos! what a beautiful fruit 😍

https://plantinstructions.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/tamarillos.jpg

Don't like most fruit and almost never eat it. Not my thing. Tomatoes.

it's really annoying that during the summer months, just having a few bananas in your kitchen is enough to create a viable ecosystem for a massive swarm of fruit flies. voted tomatoes.

I’ve had tomatoes on the ledge for a week or two and when I cut into one today: sprouted seeds :-///

I've never tried mangosteen, never even see one as far as I know

they don't keep well, if they start to go yellow inside then forget it.

is mandarin a stand-in for tangerine in the poll? They're not the same in my mind

The farmer's market late summer peach i had this morning was the best piece of fruit i've had all year. Just sweet drippy and sublime

Went with mango because it's the cadillac of fruits.. but I have a serious soft spot for grapes, as they grow wild throughout California (both native and wine grape escapees) and it's a real joy to be wandering along the railroad tracks somewhere and discover a vine with ripe, dark bunches and be spitting seeds as you continue your walk

Anyway I have a bunch of grapes tattooed on my shoulder blade but no mango tattoo