Favorite Fruit

Charles Smith · January 8, 2003

fermented grape juice,

or peaches

Belmont3 · January 8, 2003

1. Huckleberries

2. Apricots

3. Nectarines

vengroff · January 8, 2003

1. Pears

2. Mangos

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

Miss J · January 8, 2003

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 · January 8, 2003

Rambutan are for tourists.

Miss J · January 8, 2003

Precisely, Adam. :cool:

Edited January 8, 2003 by Miss J (log)

col klink · January 8, 2003

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

nightscotsman · January 8, 2003

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. :wub:

maggiethecat · January 8, 2003

Raw: Cherries. Closely followed by mangoes.

Cooked: Rhubarb in any of its delightful guises

macrosan · January 8, 2003

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 · January 8, 2003

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 · January 8, 2003

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 · January 8, 2003

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 · January 8, 2003

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** · January 8, 2003

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 · January 8, 2003

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** · January 8, 2003

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 · January 8, 2003

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

yvonne johnson · January 8, 2003

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

Cooked: Raspberries: crumble, summer pudding

Rhea_S · January 8, 2003

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.