All (your) favourite fruit

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:

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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.