All (your) favourite fruit

I like nectarines myself.

good fruit = Raspberries, mangosteens (except when you buy them here for 2 pound fifty for six and two of them are off, when you've bought a kilo for fifty pence in Thailand) very ripe mangos, num num.

raspberries
strawberries
grapes
mandarines
peaches
boysenberries
cherries
grapefruit
green gage plums
apricots

I really like bananas when they are all mushed up in MILK! Yes, perhaps this is baby food but who cares - I wd also eat RUSKS if they were avaliable in the everyday food aisles instead of being GHETTOISED in the baby aisle. Mmmmm rusks.

Nectarines are awful. I prefer proper tomatoes to cherry ones and the worst of all is custard apples. I ate them in Spain and they are vile.

http://www.andmas.co.uk/womansworld/children/images/rusks.jpg

Google: "In 1997 Martha Conway won a California Arts Council Fellowship for Creative Writing for her novel-in-progress, ALL HER FAVORITE FRUIT."

Me: "In 2002 Nabisco Coolguy won a California Arts Council Fellowship for Creative Writing for his novel-in-progress, TAKE THE SKINHEADS BOWLING."

Once one of my cousins ate a piece of fruit off of a tree, and I was horrified.

Also wot R a feeee-j00000-aaaa!?

I hate lychees.

My personal number one. Too bad they're so expensive.

At the same greengrocer's, they've started labelling the kiwifruit as 'kiwi'...we are not American, dangit! Stop that!

Ee Fruit: It's green, spiky, and eating it causes instant erections in men.

Crunch Fruit: Well, it crunches.

top 10 fruits (which are hard to find in the bluddy South Island):
1. Tamarillos
2. Babaco (esp when stewed!)
3. Pepinos!
4. Fejoas (esp when stolen from fences!)
5. (wild) Banana Passionfruit (in Golden Bay!)
6. Naranjillos
7. Cherimoyas
8. Bananas
9. Cape Gooseberries (like little paper lanterns!)
10. Lemonades (hurrah for mutant citrus. see also : uglifruit)

'golden' raspberries

top-drawer-first-rate:

cherries
strawberries (succulent local ones, not the California monsters)
raspberries
peaches
figs
blueberries
apples
apricots

not-so-fond of:

table grapes
watermelon
cranberries
italian prunes

turn-ons:

bananas
pears
oranges
mangoes
peaches
grapes
watermelon
plums

turn-offs:
apples
strawberries
cranberries
grapefruit

Freshly squeezed, sweet red grapefruit juice is high on my list of fruity delites. After that, white peaches. It's very difficult to find either in their perfect states of enjoyability, although I had some killer California peaches 2 days ago.

there are these small local (quebec) strawberries that are amazing - just really fresh tasting yet still sweet and full of flavour, rather than cloyingly sweet

also also what is good is FRESH DATES (from iran, for instance) - they are like candy! but they are fruit!

I do eat fruit now!!

I like:

Raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, even blackberries. So, mainly berries, but you gotta start somewhere, right? Oranges are okay, but time consuming. Apples and pears, are edible but boring.

blueberries

fuji apples, red or green grapes, strawberries, bananas, oranges

used to love watermelon, but there's never any flavor to the ones I find in the grocery store

cherries are tops for combining deliciousness with EASE OF EATING; grapes equal them in the latter category but trail far behind in the former. bananas are good but they have a window of like 1.5 days when they are actually edible. apples are tasty and healthy-feeling but your hands get sticky and then when you're done you have to put the core somewhere. orange juice is delicious (especially with TONS O' PULP) but oranges themselves are best left to the world's youth soccer leagues. peaches and strawberries are fine as long as I don't have to worry about washing them or slicing them up.

basically, I prefer fruits which can just be left sitting in a bowl on the table for me to grab whenever I want some (actually now that I think about it this might be true of food in general).

oh yeah, and watermelon is awesome because it takes messiness and inconvenience to the extreme. if I'm gonna eat a fruit that requires a lot of preparation and leaves me sticky all over*, I'm gonna go all out!

*: there is no non-homoerotic way to phrase this

it's mango season here

hurrah

I don't know how to work a mango

But you dont know how to work an apple, respect the mango- for the greater good of course.

http://www.rambutan.com/P1000594Copy1main.jpg

Ahhh yes my heart is glad and my eyes are shining at the thought of rambutan!

I just wanna work your mango, baby.

oh my!

above the rain drenched garden
mango leaves hold the morning sun
i feel i could live forever

tis also the season for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambul

Where is the satsuma love on this thread?

I spent a happy winter eating navel oranges, carbon footprint be damned. I still don't understand why you can't get a russet apple in this godforsaken country, though. Any number of stupid bloody pink ladies, which are rubbish.

turn-ons:
bananas

Why doesn't that surprise me.

I quite like strawberries with either whipped cream or dipped (and frozen) in chocolate. It's a terrible mess tyo make the latter. But I should do it again.

Now *resting* at home: strawberries with sugar and lemon. Tonight I will attempt making jam of it. HURRAH!

This thread is where I couldn't have found out about mangosteens without neil spending about £3 on a couple of the things only for me to find out that they weren't as nice as he'd led me to believe.

(anyone who was privy to the mangosteen disaster, you'll all be delighted to know that they were selling them for 45p in Tesco the week after that, and then last time we were down in London they were giving the bloody things away in Covent Garden)

Anyway, best fruits: strawberries and kiwis and pears.

(that couldn't should be a could)

I am so sad. They no longer have Pippin apples at the Gelson's Market by my parents' house.

I'm loving me some nectarines at the moment.

search - cherries

destroy - their cost

I'm loving me some nectarines at the moment.

-- chap, Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

god i love cherry season and hate how brief it is

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/8d/af/998daf6083c6be5400b0ad4ed8233fe2.jpg

Would love a good nectarine rn

https://www.thespruceeats.com/thmb/L--iCcIrA92O66y8espD-P6QRls=/1499x2000/filters:fill(auto,1)/GettyImages-76948399-58ae02d83df78c345b1cb32a.jpg

perfect little morning boosters

A big adult revelation was the existence of “European cantaloupe”, aka cucumis melo cantalupensis, aka The True Cantaloupe. Having eaten North American “cantaloupes” (muskmelons) all my life (with a certain level of begrudgement), having a Euro Cantaloupe and realizing it is in fact the best melon and a contender for the best fruit was pretty amazing

I became allergic or something to stone fruits several years ago and it fucking sucks. If I cut out the area around the pit, it’s more tolerable.

I bought some cotton candy grapes at the store, not realizing what they were. Goddamn they taste weird… good weird, but still weird.

had never heard of those, but hmm....sound oddly delicious: https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/cotton-candy-grapes/

oh god yes fruit

fruuuuuuuuuit

i have delicious memories of childhood currants plucked from neighbors' bushes every summer, gleaming ruby in the sunlight, their little pop and crunch and burst of puckery drymouth sweetness juice

at a farmer's market in hawaii i was too shy to ask about their spiky red golf balls but the vendor could see my fascination, so she whipped out a knife and sliced the top off one, wordlessly handed it over to me with many encouraging gestures, and i had my first rambutan. incredible fruit!!! inside the leathery skin there's a glistening opal of succulent luminous flower-scented flesh, its surface cool and slick on the tongue, yielding to the teeth like a slightly rubbery peach, and the flavor a perfect helix of sweet/tart/floral. the mainland grocery store rambutans have never matched up.

i love the grapes that taste like wine, tho i can't abide wine

have u seen the longneck avocados

https://manofmany.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Long-Neck-Avocados.jpg

grapefruit are fantastic. i peel them like oranges, then peel the membrane from the bundles of tiny juice packets, and then! i eat them! it makes a huge mess of rind and pith and membrane and seeds but is 1000% worth it.

every grapefruit is beautiful but the oro blanco variety is top tier. less of that paint stripper forwardness common to most grapefruit but still aggressive enough to keep one's interest.

a banana that is just beginning to freckle is my perfect banana

this thread also needs more papayas, the bigger the better:

https://groentebroer.be/product/papaya-formosa.jpg

figs! i like all the crunchy little beads inside. i made the cake for one of my brothers' weddings and put figs on it, and every color of raspberries.

(top: pistachio cardamom cake with sour cherry filling, middle: chocolate cake with gianduja ganache, bottom: vanilla bean cake with fresh sliced strawberries and buttercream)

(wish somebody would get married again, i want to make another wedding cake)

i thought that i didn't like pears until (in a moment of fruit desperation) i had an overripe one that had been lurking in a friend's crisper for weeks and it shifted my entire pear-adigm

fruit is so good

Blueberries ftmfw

now see generally i am pro-fruit but i just cannot hold with blueberries. the spiky little blossom end? that is just not a sensation my mouth can get on board with.

They're so bland and mealy raw.

My family had three papaya trees growing up to the deck that went to my room. They always had beautiful little golden frogs that hung out on the leaves.

xp I don't mind the spiky blossom end at all. We moved recently and the thing I miss most about the old house is the wild blueberries that grew in the backyard.