Favorite Fruit

[Charles Smith]

fermented grape juice,

or peaches

[Belmont3]

1. Huckleberries

2. Apricots

3. Nectarines

[vengroff]

1. Pears

2. Mangos

Both have to be at just the right point of ripeness.

[Miss J]

When I was a child, I loved cherries best. I could scoff them at an alarming rate, scattering pits in the process

Lately, I've found myself longing for raspberries like I used to eat in my granddad's garden: enormous, juicily fragile, and warmed by the sun

In Cambodia, I fell in love with the much-maligned rambutan. We bought a whole bunch in the market in Kampot to take up to Bokor, and ate them sitting on the edge of a fast-running river with our feet plunged into the water. Spiky, sour and sweet.

[Adam Balic]

Rambutan are for tourists.

[Miss J]

Precisely, Adam.

Edited January 8, 2003 by Miss J (log)

[col klink]

Blood oranges, bleeding with sweet, sweet blood (orange) juice.

[nightscotsman]

You know, I just now noticed that your sig looks like two strange beings holding hands. Sort of a squatty pac-man like being on the left, and a sort of pin-headed being on the right. Holding hands, forming a sweet chain.

Hey, you're right! Cuuute... molecules going steady.

[maggiethecat]

Raw: Cherries. Closely followed by mangoes.

Cooked: Rhubarb in any of its delightful guises

[macrosan]

One vote for loganberries please. I have a bush in the garden which produces about 30 berries each year, and if I'm lucky I beat the fox to them and they're wonderful.

[Jaymes]

Mangos and mangosteens.

I like mangos too!

I haven't had mangosteens since I moved back to the States. Does anyone ever see them in the markets here?

[Degustation]

Mangos and mangosteens.

I like mangos too!

I haven't had mangosteens since I moved back to the States. Does anyone ever see them in the markets here?

I usually get them in Chinatown, and the high-end produce stores also carry them. Occasionally I also see them in some small fruit shops.

Edited January 8, 2003 by Degustation (log)

[Ron Johnson]

Peaches, white peaches, donut peaches.

Peach pie, peach tart, peach cobbler, peaches and ice cream, peaches and cream, peach ice cream, grilled peach halves, peach nectar and champers . . .

[Jaymes]

Mangos and mangosteens.

I like mangos too!

I haven't had mangosteens since I moved back to the States. Does anyone ever see them in the markets here?

I usually get them in Chinatown, and the high-end produce stores also carry them. Occasionally I also see them in some small fruit shops.

Thanks. That is some really helpful info. I had almost given up, but now I'll redouble my efforts!

[Dave the Cook]

Mangos and mangosteens.

I like mangos too!

I haven't had mangosteens since I moved back to the States. Does anyone ever see them in the markets here?

I usually get them in Chinatown, and the high-end produce stores also carry them. Occasionally I also see them in some small fruit shops.

Thanks. That is some really helpful info. I had almost given up, but now I'll redouble my efforts!

I've seen them at Whole Foods here in Atlanta, too.

[Jaymes]

Mangos and mangosteens.

I like mangos too!

I haven't had mangosteens since I moved back to the States. Does anyone ever see them in the markets here?

I usually get them in Chinatown, and the high-end produce stores also carry them. Occasionally I also see them in some small fruit shops.

Thanks. That is some really helpful info. I had almost given up, but now I'll redouble my efforts!

I've seen them at Whole Foods here in Atlanta, too.

Okay! Now I'm really optimistic, since Whole Foods is an Austin-based company that began right here. I'll set out at once.

By the by, have any of you that buy and eat mangosteens here in the States eaten them in Asia? How do they compare?

(Before I get my hopes up too high, I mean.)

Edited January 8, 2003 by Jaymes (log)

[Dave the Cook]

Jaymes, I think it's worth a try, but I should warn you that the Whole Foods that I shop at is not the same as the ones I used to go to in Houston. The Texas versions are good-sized (there are a couple elsewhere in Atlanta, but the one that I frequent is quite a bit bigger -- I'd say 400,000 square feet or more, and heavily into Asian and South/Central American offerings (the British section is the size of our powder room, and the German section is even smaller).

WF bought a local "farmer's market," and in fact it is still known better by the old name (Harry's) than the new one. The story is that WF is using it to test the larger format for possible implementation elsewhere.

Anyway, good luck. If you strike out, PM me and I'll see if I can ship you some.

[Stone]

Golden Delicious Apples. (They don't call them delicious for nothing.)

[yvonne johnson]

Raw: Raspberries (with cream or ice-cream, or in trifle)

Cooked: Raspberries: crumble, summer pudding

[Rhea_S]

Aside from cherries, my favourite is lansones(Tagalog)/langsat(Thai). I can eat several pounds of cherries or lansones in one go. I also love pineapples and mangos.

[torakris]

cherries

followed very closely by raspberries and blackberries (but only those picked fresh out of my dad's garden!)

[stefanyb]

This is impossible to answer. After all, how can you compare apples and oranges?

[macrosan]

Stefany, I think that can only be done in the Thread Whose Name We Dare Not Speak

[Lesley C]

Golden and only Golden Pineapple but never cooked, then raspberries...but they have to be fantastic raspberries.

[macrosan]

Isn't it interesting how many times raspberries have been mentioned