Best Fruit Poll.

Fuck this avocado on toast bollocks.

stoked 4 ur daily mail column

― imago, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Didn't say this was the cause of all your problems. Just that your tastes suck.

grapes are the most important fruit

I try not to have fruit in the house that might poison my idiot whippet, so no grapes or currants.

Seasonal Kent cherries are fabulous and very expensive, so Borough Market in July is your best bet, J.

Grapes and strawberries vary too widely - sometimes they go bad overnight or start out flavorless.

Apples are the winner IMO - consistently good within the type you prefer, rarely end up a wasted purchase because they sucked. I was digging some kind of honeycrisp hybrid this summer, a nice sharp bite but better texture.

Second best are some kinds of grape/cherry tomatoes, they’re called Flavor Bombs or something and I could eat ten pounds at once given the chance.

Yellow and gold cherry tomatoes are the best!

Thanks Suzy, I forget Borough market.

Tomatoes might win if we are including savory uses. I eat massive caprese salads for dinner ever year during the season.

For fruit as sweet treat, nothing beats ice cream I make from strawberries I picked from our CSA.

Peaches are so good, a real contender at their peak, but their peak is limited and hard to find ime.

I'm not voting, because I dispute the premise: part of what makes fruit great is that it has a season and looking forward to the next one is part of the joy.

In my twenties I developed an allergy to the pit/surrounding areas of stone fruits so I have to cut them up before eating. Really miss just being able to take a bite out of a whole stone fruit. I don’t enjoy the whole sensual juice dribbling thing people foam at the mouth about tho

not really invested in this poll since my favorite fruits aren't on this BUT

popping in to say that if you live in pawpaw territory, in September do a search on fb marketplace or craigslist or whatever and see if anybody is selling pawpaws locally

or see if there's a pawpaw festival near you (again, unfortunately fb is the best place to look)

they only fruit in september so the window is small... and you might be able to still catch some!

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a divine fruit, imo

if we're talking regional specialty fruits then I am all about the thimbleberry

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

grapes are the most important fruit

hard agreement

if we're talking regional specialty fruits then I am all about the thimbleberry

I posted a photo upthread!

I go through at least two pineapples weekly, so they're the clear winner.

I'm also big on grapes, honeydew melon, mandarin oranges, cranberries (particularly in the form of Craisins).

A large number of fruits that I used to enjoy just make me fart now. Or maybe they always made me fart and I only recently put two and two together. But goodbye to most stone fruits, watermelon, apples, blackberries.

Blueberries are good, but I'm always afraid I'll get a moldy one, so I rarely buy them.

My wife and I got really into Outshine Creamy Coconut Fruit Bars this summer, which led us to want to try actual coconuts. I ordered special tools from Amazon to pry them open. It turned out to still be a pain in the ass to open them. Also, they are very highly caloric for even a small serving of raw coconut. And not taking all that into account, it's mostly just sorta dry. I still enjoy a few toasted coconut flakes as a dessert topper though.

What are people's go-to fruits during the winter?

clementines

the "feel good" factor from citrus still takes me aback from time to time

Europe is shitty for fruit unless its put into something or is made into juice.

this is so false! ever been to the farmer's market in any Bavarian town? ever hear of a Bergman movie, wild something, can't quite place it? berries in Europe have an intensity only rivaled in the PNW

Cherries in SW France are practically appellation controllé.

I love blackberry jam 0 I like the way it looks in a can

What are people's go-to fruits during the winter?

yeah, Xmas tangerines are a thing... what are the ones with the easy-peel skin? awesome

mmm, winter citrus...I'm going to make mandarin marmalade this year

Tangerines and persimmon/Sharon fruit.

A very ripe persimmon that’s almost too wobbly to peel is wonderful. Persimmons that are not ripe enough give me fuzzy mouth, though.

it seems like there's (at least) two kinds of persimmons - one can be tasty, the other is garbage but attractive on the tree

Nectarines. I love most of the fruits in that list but good nectarines are on another level.
Raspberries possibly the best flavour but can be dry when fresh.

I feel like plums should be amazing but I've never had one that isn't disappointing on some level.
Shout out to lemon for being one of the best flavours of things, and also pears which can be perfect in desserts.
I would love to be 6 again and taste guava juice in South Africa for the first time. Just one of those flavours I don't want to 'wear out' the Proustian rush.

I have that with papaya eaten in Florida as a kid (see also: the fresh fruit offer at Disney World hotel breakfast buffets).

I had a truly incredible pluot last night

the only plum i've ever had that i loved were these tiny golden plums from a tree in a yard where i lived once. beautiful flowers in the spring too.

a few decades ago I had some fried plantains at a Caribbean restaurant and was like, wow, this is truly amazing and deliciously nutritious food and not at all yucky slop like most fruit is. Never had fried plantains since, this is something I need to try again.

oh yes they are perfect for breakfast with eggs, fried in coconut oil

not at all yucky slop like most fruit is

'yucky slop'?? where are you getting your fruit?

I posted a photo upthread!

Shit! Missed it. I was lucky to grow up in an area full of wild berries—thimbles, wild strawberries, the teensy tiny bright blueberries that bears go nuts for, etc.

Feijoa (the people's fruit)
Tamarillo (thanks for repping, just1n3 <3)
Boysenberry

Used to eat a lot of cape gooseberries and banana passionfruit as a kid but it's a little harder (former isn't commercially grown here and I haven't had a proper garden in ages, latter is now classified as an invasive species)

Need to hunt around for pepinos, naranjillos and cherimoya a bit more.

Intrigued by JCLC's importing-Pakistani-mangoes-to-the-US story - never seen them in NZ; are they available in the UK/Europe?

They are - whether Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim or Sikh, all the big South Asian neighbourhoods in London (and any other areas known for huge SA communities) get loads of them and there’s an associated seasonal frenzy where families buy them by the boxful.

Fried plantains are ubiquitous in NYC and I find them delicious but unfortunately difficult to digest, to the point they’re an automatic no. Other people apparently don’t have this problem.

Looks like getting mangoes past NZ biosecurity etc is a pain:

https://thespinoff.co.nz/kai/04-01-2024/when-it-comes-to-mangoes-new-zealanders-arent-getting-the-good-stuff-2

My friends’ parents used to bring crates of mangoes back from visits to Pakistan, they were amazing. Presumably bio security was less of a thing in the late 80s.

Xps the best strawberries I’ve had in recently memory were in Finland. Cheap, too.

Xp to etc: I can never eat feijoas or kiwi fruit again because we gorged on them as kids.

milo, I agree with you about honeycrisp apples, those are the ones I always go for if I'm not in the mood for baking with or eating Granny Smiths

kinder, I loved plums as a kid, they were just sweet and juicy enough to be satisfying without being over the top, but for years now when I buy them in grocery stores they mostly seem dry and tasteless, same goes for apricots. My best friend loves apricots above all, but they aren't good any more, I think they are best when baked in galettes or tarts

the only good plum is one plucked straight from the tree... Santa Rosa is the best varietal imho

California is avocado heaven. I had trouble getting used to them since I never had them as a kid - like with cilantro I originally thought they tasted soapy - but now I eat them in salsa, as guacamole, as avocado on toast (which requires other ingredients like hard boiled eggs, roasted tomatoes, onions, herbs, bacon, salmon, or goat cheese to be really great), cut up into a salad (which is my usual way to eat them now), or halved with soy sauce sprinkled over them, or just digging into them with a spoon

I had a truly incredible pluot last night

10-12 years ago our Whole Foods got the most incredible pluots - multiple colors, varieties, and flavors - the green ones were especially zesty. They have been slowly disappearing in the years since the Amazon acquisition.

halved with soy sauce sprinkled over them

now we're talking

'yucky slop'?? where are you getting your fruit?

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, October 2, 2024 2:40 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Real England

fuzzy mouth

this is such a real challenge when it comes to so many great fruits :/

this is an incredibly informative thread.

this is so false! ever been to the farmer's market in any Bavarian town? ever hear of a Bergman movie, wild something, can't quite place it? berries in Europe have an intensity only rivaled in the PNW

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Do people have berries on their own? I like 'em but I can only have bluebberies with porridge. Strawberries do go with cream.

Papaya can go on its own. This is a kind of fruit rockism but I value fruits that can just be tasted on their own. That are enough.

Scottish raspberries are absolutely amazing. Not all fruits need blazing sunshine.

I was just in Italy and the average fruit served for breakfast in a hotel was definitely superior to the average fruit I buy in a supermarket in the US.

I go through at least two pineapples weekly, so they're the clear winner.

Also, in reference to this, I had been cutting up pineapples solely with a knife for years, which was a little tiresome and frustrating and limited my pineapple intake. But earlier this year, I discovered the most glorious kitchen tool - the pineapple corer! Now, pineapples are ready for consumption in a matter of seconds and nothing can stop me.

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that is very cool