The best common fruit

[RobinFinderson]

*BURP*

I just ate a whole cantaloupe. The thing was freaking perfect. In your opinion, what is the tastiest fruit? Assume that all choices are optimally ripe.

[happyone]

A nice crisp cold Granny Smith apple. An asian pear (Nashi) comes a close second

[Jeff Lebowski]

Bananas.

Delicious. Portable. No seeds. Don't need refrigeration. And they come with a convenient wrapper.

[Donuthole]

Raspberries are my favorite, but Bananas are definitely the best combination of convenience and taste.

While I love orange juice, and most orange-flavored items, I don't really like oranges that much.

[creekster]

It depnds on the time of day and the temperature of the fruti and the day. for example, banans are great for breakfast or lunch. Not so good at dinner. On a hot summer day nothing can beat stream chilled watermelon. On a crisp fall afternoon a tart granny smith or succulent fuji apple cannot be beat. So it all depends.

[Pheidippides]

Fuji apple. Followed by asian pears and nashi.

[Commando]

3 votes for cantaloupe already? *barf*

[Jeff Lebowski]

Fuji apple. Followed by asian pears and nashi.

We have a nashi tree in our backyard. Anjou (sp?) pear tree with two kinds of nashi branches grafted in. We love it.

[ERCougar]

Michigan blueberries. Like candy.

If we're talking commonly available fruit, I'd have to say a good pineapple or mango.

[RobinFinderson]

Fuji apple. Followed by asian pears and nashi.

I eat more Fuji apples than any other fruit, but NOTHING tops a perfectly sweet, crisp and chilled watermellon.

[TripletDaddy]

i love most fruit. I am down with all the votes for banana

I will also throw out peaches and strawberries.

California produces approx 85-90% of the nation's strawberries. there are strawberry stands all over the place and at farmers markets you can sample all sorts of varieties. yum!

fresh peaches are delish.

[Donuthole]

3 votes for cantaloupe already? *barf*

It has been a 10-year process, but I'm just now coming back around to cantaloupe, after consuming dozens of glasses of "jugo de melon" while in Guat. In most cases, it was either drink the nasty, pulpy cantaloupe juice, or risk offending someone way, way too poor to have been offering it to you in the first place. 9 times out of 10 the melon was way overripe, and the juice had that melony funk to it.

[smokymountainrain]

i love most fruit. I am down with all the votes for banana

I will also throw out peaches and strawberries.

California produces approx 85-90% of the nation's strawberries. there are strawberry stands all over the place and at farmers markets you can sample all sorts of varieties. yum!

fresh peaches are delish.

I voted strawberries, but when I read your post, I was going to kick myself for not voting peaches. Nothing beats an optimally ripe, fresh, peach. Now I see peaches were not an option. Saved!

[CJF]

I voted blueberries because I've been craving them the last few weeks. However, I eat daily fresh, juicy pineapple and love it. This week I've had jack fruit and dragon fruit also. I love dragon fruit. It's delish. The one thing the Philippines does well is fruit.

[scottie]

Anyone here ever tried a dragon fruit? (aka pitaya). I LOVE 'em. Not sure how common it is to find them at grocery stores in Utah, but in Singapore they're very common.





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