::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
-- chap, Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
― 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
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.
― sourselves (cat), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
i love the grapes that taste like wine, tho i can't abide wine
― sourselves (cat), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
have u seen the longneck avocados
https://manofmany.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Long-Neck-Avocados.jpg
― sourselves (cat), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
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.
― sourselves (cat), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
a banana that is just beginning to freckle is my perfect banana
― sourselves (cat), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
this thread also needs more papayas, the bigger the better:https://groentebroer.be/product/papaya-formosa.jpg
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
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.
― sourselves (cat), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
(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)
― sourselves (cat), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
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
― sourselves (cat), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
fruit is so good
― sourselves (cat), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
Blueberries ftmfw
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
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.
― sourselves (cat), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
They're so bland and mealy raw.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
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.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link