top 10 fruits (which are hard to find in the bluddy South Island):1. Tamarillos2. Babaco (esp when stewed!)3. Pepinos!4. Fejoas (esp when stolen from fences!)5. (wild) Banana Passionfruit (in Golden Bay!)6. Naranjillos7. Cherimoyas8. Bananas9. Cape Gooseberries (like little paper lanterns!)10. Lemonades (hurrah for mutant citrus. see also : uglifruit)
― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 31 August 2002 04:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 31 August 2002 08:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
I forgot CRABAPPLES! Most underrated fruit!
― petra jane (petra jane), Sunday, 1 September 2002 03:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 1 September 2002 06:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 1 September 2002 08:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn (youn), Thursday, 25 May 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link
It's cherry season!!! Soooo good. I want a cherry tree.
― Ms Misery, Monday, 2 July 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I cut into a kiwi yesterday, and as I was turning it out to eat the sweet, tender flesh, I got a look at it and thought "wow, this is really pornographic."
― Oilyrags, Monday, 2 July 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Cherries are GREBT. But these days I'm all about them strawberries (with whipped cream). have you guys ever tried to have/make chocolate covered strawberries? YUM!
― nathalie, Monday, 2 July 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I have had them at weddings and fondue, etc. yum.
Cherries gone now. ;_;
― Ms Misery, Monday, 2 July 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/189732909_2d0fc19bc8_b.jpg
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
ohman i haven't had a good peach in so long. spoiled by okanagan peaches of BC - so damned omg good
i like how they've used a potato to hold the sign up!
i am goign to go buy more cherries today yaay maybe also asparagus (but that is not a fruit)
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ars.usda.gov/sp2userfiles/Place/53581500/images/rubus3.jpg
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
::DROOLS::
What are those white berries in the upper left? Never seen them before.
― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
'golden' raspberries
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Aimless, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
turn-ons:
bananas pears oranges mangoes peaches grapes watermelon plums
turn-offs: apples strawberries cranberries grapefruit
― kenan, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jel --, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
blueberries
― youn, Thursday, 5 July 2007 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― milo z, Thursday, 5 July 2007 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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).
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 5 July 2007 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 5 July 2007 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
it's mango season here
― Heave Ho, Thursday, 5 July 2007 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
hurrah
― youn, Thursday, 5 July 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know how to work a mango
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 5 July 2007 02:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Kiwi, Thursday, 5 July 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I just wanna work your mango, baby.
― Bimble, Thursday, 5 July 2007 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
oh my!
― Kiwi, Thursday, 5 July 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Heave Ho, Thursday, 5 July 2007 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Where is the satsuma love on this thread?
― caek, Thursday, 5 July 2007 09:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― accentmonkey, Thursday, 5 July 2007 10:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― nathalie, Thursday, 5 July 2007 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Thursday, 5 July 2007 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
(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.
― youn, Sunday, 10 August 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm loving me some nectarines at the moment.
― chap, Sunday, 10 August 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
search - cherries
destroy - their cost
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 10 August 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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― Surmounter, Monday, 11 August 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
god i love cherry season and hate how brief it is
― Oy McVey (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/8d/af/998daf6083c6be5400b0ad4ed8233fe2.jpg
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
Would love a good nectarine rn
― i eat ass with a knife and fork (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.thespruceeats.com/thmb/L--iCcIrA92O66y8espD-P6QRls=/1499x2000/filters:fill(auto,1)/GettyImages-76948399-58ae02d83df78c345b1cb32a.jpgperfect little morning boosters
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
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
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
I bought some cotton candy grapes at the store, not realizing what they were. Goddamn they taste weird… good weird, but still weird.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
had never heard of those, but hmm....sound oddly delicious: https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/cotton-candy-grapes/
― i eat ass with a knife and fork (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link