Fruit

[opus10no2]

I consume copious amounts of various fruits.
I have concluded that it may be the secret to my fabulously glossy coat, and my splendid endowment policy.

What are your favourites?

What rare fruits should we give a try?

[quantum]

Persimmon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmon

[m1469]

hmmm... I *LOVE* fruit.

Okay, Strawberries are *SO* good, though I guess they are considered a berry rather than a fruit.  Kiwis are delicious -- grapes are great -- apricots are yummy -- avacodoes wonderful -- bananas have their place in my life - and a good apple is not something to pass up altogether either.

hmmm ... fruit salad is heavenly.

Strawberries are maybe my most favorite food.



ps -- cherries can be pretty yummy

[quantum]

Jackfruit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackfruit

[m1469]

Oh yes, I have a 'thing' for papayas and mangoes.

[quantum]

Mangoes are heavenly aren't they?

Remember the Seinfeld episode on how to choose a mango?

[m1469]

No, I don't remember that, sorry  :-.  Though I might if you remind me.

My version of watching TV is what I am doing right now -- it's on in the other room, but I would rather be here reading and posting  .

*goes to watch TV*

[opus10no2]

hmmm... I *LOVE* fruit.

Okay, Strawberries are *SO* good, though I guess they are considered a berry rather than a fruit.  Kiwis are delicious -- grapes are great -- apricots are yummy -- avacodoes wonderful -- bananas have their place in my life - and a good apple is not something to pass up altogether either.

hmmm ... fruit salad is heavenly.

Strawberries are maybe my most favorite food.



ps -- cherries can be pretty yummy

I've always preferred , in general, the flavour of raspberries to strawberries, but the actual raspberry fruit is really strongly flavoured, and the strawberry is more pleasant as a fruit.

Raspberries + milk + blender = yum though.

Um, it's like limes, lime flavoured drinks and things are great, but it's so potent that the actual fruit is alot less practical.

Have any of you tried the hybric crossbred fruits that man has made with demonische cleverness.
Ie.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loganberry und all der varieities,

[retrouvailles]

Some of my favorite exotic fruits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambutan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikoo (and mamey, a relative of it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychee

I spend a LOT of time in ethnic and Asian markets (I'm not Asian, go figure), so I see these all the time.

By ALL means, stay away from this. It tastes like onions marinated in dirty sock water. It has a smell  thats much worse than that too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

Crossbreeds are good too, such as tangelos and blood oranges.

Randomly, does anyone besides me really love the jackfruit vitamin water (and all the other vitamin waters)?

[lau]

strawberries are usually so sour, it's hard to find sweet ones. but they are very good dipped in chocolate.

purple grapes are much better than green grapes



watermelon is sort of bad cuz of the seeds

[opus10no2]

purple grapes are much better than green grapes

I'll disagree there, green grapes are perhaps my no1 fruit, so damn addictive.

[lau]

but the purple grapes are sweeter. i think they are usually called red grapes but most of the time they look purple

[mcgillcomposer]

I eat lots of fruit too...but not the nourishing kind  .

[lau]

i don't follow..

[prometheus]

I prefer pineapple.

[pianistimo]

peaches are in season.

about the strawberries - you can buy a pack.   put them in the freezer.  blender about 4-5 with a banana and a little milk and icecream.  tastes pretty good.

[quantum]

I know what you mean by grapes being addictive.  I eat grapes like some people eat chips. 

[nicco]

By ALL means, stay away from this. It tastes like onions marinated in dirty sock water. It has a smell  thats much worse than that too.

... its odor is best described as pig-sh*t, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away.

Haha w t f , how is that possible to eat

[spaciiey]

Durian *is* possible to eat, but it tastes horrid. It's an aquired taste apparently.. my mum can eat heaps and heaps of that stuff... I don't know how she does it though lol.

I have to say I really like apples though. Juicy, crunchy apples hehe. And mangosteens... they're a tropical fruit, and they cost a fortune where I live.

[elspeth]

My favourites are gooseberries, blackberries, and apples. Goosberries and blackberries are also very good to grow for keeping the burglars away, as most varieties are covered in vicious thorns...

[ahinton]

I've always preferred , in general, the flavour of raspberries to strawberries,

You are not alone in this!

Have any of you tried the hybric crossbred fruits that man has made with demonische cleverness.
Ie.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loganberry und all der varieities,

I could not second your advice strongly enough; the only problem is that it's usually not so easy to get hold of any of these berry varieties other than raspberries and blackberries. Loganberries are said (by quite a few renal consultants and urologists) to posses even more beneficial properties than cranberries for people with these kinds of problems. One really has to make the effort to find suppliers - hopefully locally - or try, if time, space and climatic conditions permit - to grow one's own, but one usually has to go to considerable lengths to protect such plants from the birds.

Raspberries are one of my country's greatest exports after whisky, incidentally...

There are also liqueurs and eaux de vie made from some of these fruits, although it's even harder to find any made from the rarer ones as it is to source those fruits themsleves. A kir royale is usually made with a tiny drop of cassis (made from blackcurrants) and some white sparkling wine (any good méthode champenoise, cava, etc. will serve the purpose here - it's abit of a waste of money using good quality champagne for this), but one can just as easily make a really nice one by substituting a framboise (made from raspberries) or, better still, a mûre (made from blackberries), although the eux de vie strength must not be used for them, as the alcoholic strength is far too great and will risk spoiling them completely.

Best,

Alistair

[m1469]

I prefer pineapple.

Oh yeah !    I *love* pineapple !

[mycrabface]

Bananas. Big bananas.

[knight errant]

Strawberries and avocados for me. 

[phil13]

Blackberries are my favorite. After that:

Blueberries
Melons (green melon is my favorite of the 3-4 varieties they have here)
Peaches
Avocados
Bananas
Oranges

I love fruit. 

Phil

[zheer]

   As a kid  i remember there were fruit trees in a number of friends and relative back garden, so fruits were all free, Apple, small banana ,grape, cherry,orange and a alot of other fruits that i've never come across either in supermarkets or the various lockal mid-eastern shops.
   The sad thing is almost all that fruits that most western people have ever eaten has been genetically modified,so as a person that has picked fruit from trees i can assure you the are not the same thing. Fruit juice and vegetable mix is great stuff.
 

[phil13]

   The sad thing is almost all that fruits the most western people have ever eaten has been genetically modified,so as a person that has picked fruit from trees i can assure you the are not the same thing.

True. Or, they are plucked early and have none of the ripened, juicy flavor.

I recently got a carton of California strawberries that were packaged and sold at a major grocery store. On the way home, I stopped by a local berry vendor and picked up a small carton of Oregon strawberries as well. The Cali strawberries were not ripe, had much less flavor and required sweetener in order to eat them, whereas the Oregon strawberries, while a little smaller, tasted absolutely perfect. 

As for my family, we pick our blackberries from several areas near our house. No genetic modification involved. 

Phil

[zheer]

As for my family, we pick our blackberries from several areas near our house. No genetic modification involved. 

Phil

   Yes am that not everything is gentically modified, unless one shops in a supermarket and then yeah all the fruits and vegetable are genetically modified.

[m1469]

Okay, now I have to tell my childhood fruit stories.  When I was little and lived in California, we had friends who were major ranchers and grew oranges and other citrus for 'Sunkist' and so on ... some of my best memories (aside from the beach) are of hanging around in those orchards eating fresh oranges and fruits.  They also grew avocadoes and there is just nothing like walking through those huge avocado trees, finding humungous pear-shaped, perfectly ripe avocadoes -- I used to climb those trees and sit in the branches eating them ..... mmmmmmm.

They also grew kiwis and a huge blackberries called 'olallaberries' ... wow, those were great times !  They also had a kumquat tree, which was a pretty yummy fruit, too.

My grandma had a peach tree that gave us super good peaches ... she would serve them to us, sliced, for breakfast every morning.

hmmmm... pears are yummy, too (but that was a different phase of my life)

[retrouvailles]

They also grew kiwis and a huge blackberries called 'olallaberries' ... wow, those were great times !  They also had a kumquat tree, which was a pretty yummy fruit, too.

I think you mean olallieberries, which are a crossbreed between i think a blackberry and a blueberry. I love the taste of them, especially in pies.

[m1469]

hee hee... I *knew* somebody would say this  .  They can be spelled different ways, but yes, that is the same berry.

[opus10no2]

Bananas. Big bananas.

Why big? I find small ones to be tastier, oddly.

[Mozartian]

I looove fruit. Peaches are the best. Also love kiwis (especially golden kiwis.. they are the best thing everrrr! except for peaches), bananas, avacados... etc. etc. etc.

Dried fruit is good, too! Dried cranberries and apricots are awesome. So is candied pineapple.

[prometheus]

I second kiwis and avocados.

[ted]

We eat what we grow in the garden - avocados, feijoas, apples, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, kumquats, peaches, bananas (Auckland must be getting warmer, bananas never grew here years ago). We grew the avocado from a very small sapling. It took eight years to start bearing but now it produces hundreds of pears. We supplement this with whatever is going at the local fruit shop. My wife, being  a Filipina, buys jackfruit, mangos, durians and papayas when they are available and of good quality, the latter state unfortunately being much rarer than the former.  I like all tropical fruit but I cannot eat it with gobs of bagoong as she does.

[opus10no2]

Fruits are what taste buds are for.
The natural variety of taste and texture is one of the marvels of nature.

I've progressively been making them the primary element of my diet, along with maybe tuna.

The rest is made up mostly of highcarb snacks, and other indulgences.

Now it's time to get into vegetables...do chips count?

[m1469]

Now it's time to get into vegetables...do chips count?

hee hee... I was thinking about starting a vegetable thread  .  Hmmmm... do chips count ?  Well, technically potatoes are considered "roots" -- but, I think we should count them ... LOL. 

*LOVES vegetables, too*

[opus10no2]

Like 'em raw?

I like carrots, and there ARE veggies in a big mac, if that counts? *halo*

[pianistimo]

ted, i'm impressed with your gardening skills. 

i'd like to plant a fruit tree.  i'm scared to pay the money for a fruit tree - if it died.  actually, i think when we bought our house - there was a plum tree planted in the front.  it's still alive, but i've never seen any plums on it.  how long do they take to grow fruit?  it's been 5 years.  (perhaps it wasn't a plum tree after all?  or it plum forgot what it was).  the leaves on it are healthy. 

[opus10no2]

ted, i'm impressed with your gardening skills. 

I'm the same, actually, except I let my wife trim her own bush 

[ted]

I can't really give any good advice. Firstly I don't know that much about it and secondly results probably differ enormously with country, soil, climate and local pests. We don't have to do very much work with fruit trees aside from the occasional pruning and spraying. We are lucky in that the dark volcanic soil where we live grows practically anything. Most small trees commence bearing after a season or two except for pears of any sort which take several years, and even then the first few times yield only a few fruit. Feijoas require two trees to cross-pollinate, I think, but I don't really know much about it other than you never see an isolated feijoa tree with fruit. Most citrus trees are very hardy, although their cycles often seem to vary from one year to the next. Here they fruit mostly in the winter but seldom simultaneously. My wife planted a very small banana bush and within a couple of years it had taken over the rear of the section and produced many bunches of bananas. I just cut the whole lot down last week actually, it was taking over the place and encroaching on other plants, but it'll be back into life next summer.

We planted an olive tree four years ago but that hasn't done much at all yet except get bigger so I don't know what we're doing wrong there. One thing worth growing is a creeper of chokos. It is very hardy and most people treat it as a weed. It does tend to dominate and strangle anything in its way, but chokos are really delicious - cook them however you would cook a marrow.

[pianist1runner]

I love love LOVE strawberries!!
i really dont know and strange kinds of fruits 

[kony]

[spaciiey]

Chokos are marvellous.. we used to have heaps growing in our garden... but now instead it is overgrowing with silverbeet. Silverbeet is awesome.. especially with ricotta cheese in canneloni... yum hehe.

ted: we have an olive tree... it was planted about 10 years ago i think... and its only been producing olives recently.

[m1469]

Tomatoes