there’s something about a ripe banana, when the outside of the flesh gets sort of powdery/fluffy ughhhi hate itslightly underripe is the only acceptable banana
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 April 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
Blueberries are really two different fruits imo; wild blueberries are tart and amazing, if occasionally wormy. Corporate blueberries are bland and sometimes moldy.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 2 April 2021 00:50 (three years ago) link
Oranges and other citrus are the most infuriating to me. It took moving to CA and being able to sample them at farmers' markets to get me over my refusal to purchase citrus in order to avoid disappointment.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 2 April 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
What is the canonical sound in your head for a brown banana oozing out of its banana wound into a bowl?Mine is GLORP
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 2 April 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
I was eating a grapefruit last month and thought it tasted odd, my wife said "don't eat that, it's green" (should mention here I can't see colours) and then I was a bit ill for a day or so. so that.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
Years of experience with bananas is largely how I trained my colorblind-self to differentiate between light green and yellow
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 2 April 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
I had a short spell working at a fruit smoothie stand and it amazes me how reluctant people would be to use the part of an otherwise fine banana that's a little black. There are far worse things we put in our mouths!
― boxedjoy, Friday, 2 April 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
dry satsuma is the most disappointing for me so I voted that
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Friday, 2 April 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
Underripe pineapple vs overripe plum for me.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Friday, 2 April 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
unripe hachiya persimmon is very rough going ime. don't know if it's extreme alkalinity of the fruit that reacts with acidic saliva or what, but it's hard to even wash whatever was produced off your tongue
― scampos sacra fames (outdoor_miner), Friday, 2 April 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 8 April 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 9 April 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
This result is bananas
― Alba, Friday, 9 April 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
How hard is it to avoid an underripe banana? Not the least bit hard compared to evaluating citrus!
come on ppl
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 9 April 2021 01:41 (three years ago) link
overripe is the problem w bananas
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 April 2021 01:48 (three years ago) link
which is also easily diagnosable before you put banana in mouth! or even unpeel it!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 9 April 2021 01:49 (three years ago) link
is yr mum a banana or something
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 April 2021 01:53 (three years ago) link
srsly do I need to offer a zoom class on how to NOT eat banana that is not the color u like
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 9 April 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
i am sorry citrus evaluation is hard for you, i really am
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 April 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
Sometimes underripe bananas pose as perfectly ripe bananas though
― Lily Dale, Friday, 9 April 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link
you look for the green, don't see any, get tricked into taking a bite, and then your mouth dries up
― Lily Dale, Friday, 9 April 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
This never happens to me. Even on the rare occasions where there’s no green on the skin, I’ve always been able to tell by the first pull on it. But I confess my range of tolerance on bananas is VERY wide.
― Alba, Friday, 9 April 2021 02:41 (three years ago) link
even when the banana has a couple of colonies of fruit flies living on it - it's much easier to mash it up for a very satisfactory sandwich imo
― calzino, Friday, 9 April 2021 02:53 (three years ago) link
A fair result, all told. For me it's to do with the unbridgeable chasm between a good banana and a bad banana: the former is the very best fruit experience and the disappointment when one experiences a bad one, and the knowledge of what one has missed out on is so great that one's whole day can be ruined.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
The chasm between a good banana cream pie and a bad banana cream pie is also vast and unbridgeable, but I guess that is true of all varieties of pie.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 9 April 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
dry mealy peaches are super disappointing
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 April 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
Actually now that I think about it the obvious answer is avocado.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 9 April 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
Out-of-season peaches from Chile or wherever are pathetic. They even smell bad, like long-abandoned laundry.
― Josefa, Friday, 9 April 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
Oh god yeah. Where were peaches, nectarines and APRICOTS in this poll. My retrospective write-in vote
― Alba, Friday, 9 April 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
nectarines for sure
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link
Would have voted pears: underripe = eating a rock, overripe = somehow simultaneously mushy and dry, grainy, acrid. And the window between the two is vanishingly small.
― Computers I can live with, I even dried them in the oven (ledge), Saturday, 10 April 2021 07:42 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxUD57NFLcU
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 10 April 2021 09:19 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/7Xt2UmD.jpg
― Alba, Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:15 (three years ago) link
Xp oh no busted.
― Computers I can live with, I even dried them in the oven (ledge), Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link