BS: What's your favorite fruit?

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:37 AM

I was sitting here slowly savouring a plum & reading JennieG's post when a large cockroach walked from behind the computer, so I grabbed my plum, blew the cocky off the desk with a great "yuuuuck" & jumped up & grabbed the spray & chased it around with spray & swatter till I killed it.

Now I can get back to the plum & Mudcat. As far as I'm concerned yummy dried apricots don't need extra flavour, but fresh dates do need King Island Cream or any other rich double cream, that really sets off their flavour

sandra (still incensed that a COCKROACH would dare walk across my new computer table)

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: GUEST,Quentin Crisp
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 08:26 PM

Martin Gibson.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 08:16 PM

Apricots in season, and dried apricots when not in season - dried apricots are yummo when dipped in dark chocolate, especially if there is a judicious amount of a good brandy involved.
When Himself and I were travelling in South Australia about 8 years ago we had plumcots, and also another hybrid that I forget but I think it was the bastard child of a nectarine and something else. It was very nice anyway.
Oh I remember now - it was a peacherine, the result of a union between a peach and a nectarine. Had smooth skin and a peachy taste.

Cheers
JennieG who needs to go to the fruit market today

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 04:37 AM

Fox.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Once Famous
Date: 03 Jan 05 - 12:17 PM

My favorite fruit is my wife's hairdresser.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: JennyO
Date: 03 Jan 05 - 10:36 AM

Peaches, mangoes, passionfruit from my passionfruit vine (much nicer than those shrivelled up things in the shops), tomatoes from the garden, especially a "sweet-bite" cherry tomato picked off the bush and popped straight in the mouth - talk about a taste explosion! Lots of other fruit I really like, such as grapes and melons, but the top ones are my favourites.

Never had a plumcot, Sandra - never even heard of them before you mentioned them. Maybe I should try one - and you haven't lived till you've had a mango and passionfruit mousse made by John. Mmmmmm!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Joybell
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 05:00 PM

In the 1950s, in Melbourne, the night train from Adeliaide used to come in early every morning. When it passed through Mildura in the far North-West of Victoria it took on crates of oranges. In those days they weren't picked until they were really ripe and then only as needed. The main train station in Melbourne began selling freshly squeezed orange juice as soon as the oranges were unloaded. You could get this juice just a day after the oranges were picked. And each day a new lot arrived. Cheers, Joy

Subject: What's your favorite fruit?
From: GUEST,wings
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 04:26 PM

Pineapple. Yum. And strawberries, really good ones. I live in Alaska, so fruit's pretty lame up here...but in Hawaii that's good dtuff! : )

wings

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: GUEST,Scoville on Dad's computer
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 02:12 PM

A really good crisp, sweet, watermelon. Good peaches when I can find them. Pomegranates even though they're a lot of work for not much pulp.

Really, though, I'm not very picky--tangerines, oranges, grapefruit, pretty much all berries, apples (except I never did learn to like Granny Smiths, except in pie), pears, honeydew; you name it, I'd probably eat it.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: GUEST,Crystal
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 09:28 AM

MMMM I love all the fruit mentioned so far!

But Mangostenes, Dragon fruit, Dragons eyes and Lychees are good too!

Cherries are fantastic eaten fresh and warm from the tree and really ripe greengages and yellow plums are a little taste of heaven.

I'd just live off fruit if I could!

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: s&r
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 07:22 AM

Gulping a banana down in one swallow makes my eyes water..


Stu

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Emma B
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 07:21 AM

Anything that requires to be eaten in the bath!

and DAMSONS - as in Damson Gin They grow like weeds around here

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 07:17 AM

plumcot/pluot - typo? but it was yummy, anyway, now I only have 4 left. As I have a physio appointment Tues morning & the fruit market is in the same centre, I might just pick up a few more plumcots.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 03:26 AM

Jackfruit originates from SE Asia, slightly spiky green outside skin which when opened has a lovely yellow tasty fruit inside. The taste is a bit like banana and peaches, wonderfull smell to.

Best one come from Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. I have seen some 2 feet long.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Dewey
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 01:13 AM

Rabbi,

What is jackfruit and where can I find it?

Just curious. I would have PM'ed you but I felt others besides myself might also have never came in contact with this fruit.

Please explain if you get the chance.

Most Grateful!

Dewey (who also shares a passion for a favorite Television show with the Rabbi!)

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Dewey
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 12:53 AM

Oranges. For the following reasons:

Great energy source, tons of anti-oxidants, proven to boost immunity, more dietary fiber than an apple or banana, in-expensive to buy, You can eat one without having to wash it since the skin is removed upon consumption, thus you can buy and eat one while traveling when there are no washing facilities available.

Also I like the segments to tear apart, they're funnier to eat, and teach you to appreciate the food that is in front of you. Pyschologically it is a great dieter's food for this reason. You don't just gulp it down in one swallow like you might a banana.

The best oranges are the ones with the darkest colored skins, the thinner the skin the better the flavor inside. The juicest oranges are the ones that are the heaviest, so hold at least two in you hand and compare the weight, It you get the heavist ones, you will never, ever get a dud orange.

Tropicana Florida oranges are the best for juice and flavor, California Navals are way to dry and tasteless: the soil is too sandy and dry in California and the fruit does not get the water it needs to be juiceful.

If going for Naval Oranges, the Austrlian varieties are better than the American or South American sources.

If like to hand pick oranges for purchase, I do not like the ones that come in pre-marked packages, they are usually woody in texture, dry and tasteless.

Probably more than anyone wanted to know about a favorite fruit, but they are my passion, and yes, I DO HAVE A LIFE!

Dewey

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Peg
Date: 01 Jan 05 - 04:34 PM

for some weird reason, what used to be called "plumcots" soon after they were invented are now sold as "pluots" in some parts of the US...

I love fruit in season that is locally grown; so here that means apples (Macouns!), peaches, raspberries and pears...and in winter, I tend to eat a lot of grapefuits, tangerines, oranges, clementines, etc. from Florida...

I also love fresh pineapple when it's ripe...

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 10:42 PM

LIKE there's anything to top a perfect ripe peach. Who are ye's trying to kid?

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: darkriver
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 08:49 PM

Too hard to choose just one, as long as it's in season.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 07:38 PM

We get lovely figs from the tree in our garden and the grapes we grew in 2004 were lovely (bloody birds thought so too)

Jade (my better half) loves durian, a fruit from SE Asia which has a nice custardy taste, the down side is that it stinks like a freshly opened drain. If you can get past the smell then the taste is great.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Joybell
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 05:52 PM

Yes! I wondered if anyone except Aussies would know what they are. I discovered that they come from South America, though, so I thought they should be able to travel from there to the North. They do manage to get here in Victoria (Aus) from tropical Queensland. True-Love says he only met them in Asia and not in the USA where he grew up. Don't know why you should be deprived of such wonderful fruit. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Raedwulf
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 11:30 AM

Custard apple, huh? A tropical fruit, not to be confused with a real apple, let alone a costard apple (a cooking apple), which is the root element in the good ol' Cockney costermonger...

Which the rest of you no doubt knew, but which was confusing me somewhat till I went & looked it up!

Blackcurrants! So there! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 10:50 AM

Mangos, when they're properly ripened.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 06:43 AM

harpgirl - I hope you can find a custard apple somewhere, they are yummy & got their name cos of their custardy taste. I originally met them under bad circumstances. Our office went to the conference room of a 3/4 star hotel for a @#$%^& boring Sales Training session. The only good thing about the day was the custard apples on the buffet & I got addicted.

Great happiness today when I went to the fruit market - PLUMCOTS are around at their ususal price of around $16 per kilo when other plums are $6 or $7 per kilo, but I have 5 delicious plumcots in various stages of ripeness just waiting to be eaten. They are a new fruit & not many growers plant them, but I assume as more people eat them, more will be planted & prices will fall.

Now does a plumcot go with strawberry yohurt, or will I wait tll tomorrow to eat one? Answer - Put yoghurt back in fridge & get a plumcot. I just patted one & it's not quite ready to eat, so I will go to bed on the anticipation of a plumcot tomorrow

It's getting closer to the noise of New Year & I want to be asleep before everyone starts yelling their lungs out. bah humbug to noisy new year revellers.

sandra (10.40pm)

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 04:52 AM

Fresh Figs!

It's still my most intense memory of when I lived in Greece- going to a nearby tree and picking off fresh figs, peeling and eating them. YUM!

I'm utterly convinced that these were the original "Forbidden Fruit".

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: dianavan
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 04:44 AM

Mangoes floating in a bucket of cold water flowing from a garden hose after working with a crew laying asphalt on a blistering hot day .................................................................
...or papayas fresh after swimming in the Sea of Cortez watching phosphorescent breakers under a full moon.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: harpgirl
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 08:56 AM

I want to taste a custard apple...

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 08:09 AM

Robin!! shame on you. Tho I suppose a Foolestroupe is completely shameless.

Joy - strange you mentioned passionfruit - JennyO brought a few from her luxurious plant yesterday (along with a few real tomatoes) Wot a shame custard appples are finished until next year, but maybe I can freeze some of the pulp & use it when they are around again.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 06:28 PM

Molly Meldrum

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 06:27 PM

Grapefruit, strawberries, grapes, blueberries, bananas, fresh picked apples, tomatoes, mangoes and frozen peaches....YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I want a nice big fruit salad....gee...I wonder why!!!!!   :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 05:57 PM

Whatever is in season.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Joybell
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:57 PM

Thanks Sandra. I once visited Lismore (far North-East in New South Wales for furreners) and they have a variety of custard apple that is the size of a football. Wonderful flavour too!   They don't carry it seems so they're not found far from where they are grown. Have you tried them with passionfruit squeezed over them?
And yes! Plums - greengages! We must get together one day and have a feast. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 01:56 PM

"Is coconut a fruit?"

Yep.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 01:40 PM

The most delicious fruit combo I have had was half watermellon juice and half orange juice. It creates something so good and unlike its constituent parts its amazing.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Kim C
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 12:42 PM

Blueberries.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 07:51 AM

custard apples!!

Joybell, looks like we have something else in commmon, have a look at this website: http://www.custardapple.com.au/index.php. I've included the URL incase the clicky doesn't work (tho testing it got the website)

Oz custard apples site


I also love plums, dates, green seedless grapes, & I almost forgot the most seasonable of seasonable treats - the plumcot (plum/apricot cross only available for 2 or 3 weeks)

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: maire-aine
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 11:27 PM

Dates. Black raspberries from my back yard-- they usually come in the first week of July. Is coconut a fruit? Pineapple & coconut-- pina colada, anyone?

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Kaleea
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 11:20 PM

Just the other day I heard a fellow asking another fellow "Who's your favorite fruit?"

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 10:16 PM

Jackfruit. Size does matter.
                                  SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Padre
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 09:59 PM

Blackberries from the bushes behind our house. And mangoes when I go to visit relatives in Florida.

Padre

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 09:21 PM

Mangoes, really ripe and drippy.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 09:19 PM

In summer, watermelon

In winter, clementines

And pineapple anytime.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 09:16 PM

Fresh figs - from our fig tree!
They're green on the outside and, when ripe, bright red on the inside.
There's nothing better!
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:36 PM

Grapes! I love grapes! How could I forget grapes!

And pomegranates. How could I forget pomegranates. And lemons. I used to eat them with salt when I was a kid.

Watermelon. Musk melon. Cantelope. But only when they are super sweet, juicy, and ripe.

Strawberries. Dipped in dark chocolate!

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Once Famous
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:33 PM

Actually I like forbidden fruit.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: harpgirl
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 07:56 PM

Cherries from Michigan are my second favorite fruit.

We had a mango tree at the old homestead in south florida and I find them stringy to eat and difficult to bite into or chew, messy, and difficult to cut into bite size pieces. Plus your fingers get unbearable sticky.

I love picking blueberries and I have four bushes to plant in the yard as we speak. Still too cold I think. Are Moroccon clementines red inside? What do they taste like?

Grapes are the most widely grown fruit in the world I'm told.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: pdq
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 07:55 PM

Pick a fresh ripe papaya. Cut in half and remove seeds. Squeeze a tiny bit of fresh lime juice around the edge. Yum.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 07:45 PM

I forgot to mention fresh blueberries and fresh cherries. Ymmm...

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Joybell
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 07:42 PM

Custard Apples.
Tried "Miracle Fruit" once. Strange little berries from Africa with not much taste but everything you eat afterwards, for an hour or more, tastes sweet. WOW! Joy

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:42 PM

Tomatoes. Love 'em with a little salt. Eat 'em like an apple.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: freda underhill
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:39 PM

for a delicious salsa, try chopping avocados and mangoes in small squares, and stir with a little sweet chilli sauce!

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: freda underhill
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:37 PM

we have just planted a mango
tree in our backyard..

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:36 PM

favorite to eat...probably fresh Mango...maybe mixed with Strawberries

favorite for a pie...Gooseberries

favorite to read about?...Durian...*wink*..(I got some Durian jam for Xmas)

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:33 PM

Raspberries, pineapple, those juicy clementines! And apples. We don't get much in the way of blood oranges in Minnesota, but when the oranges and grapefruits come in, I love those too.

I also love dates, especially in baked goods. Or cream...

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: number 6
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:33 PM

Grapefruit. Can't start the day without one. Mangoes, specifically the ones from India are also a fav.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Once Famous
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:30 PM

pineapple

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: GUEST,BIG ANDY
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:28 PM

chicken

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:15 PM

Bananas and pears eaten together..mmmmmmmmm. My everyday breakfast.
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: ranger1
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:05 PM

Moroccan clementines. Makes Florida citrus pale in comparison.

Subject: RE: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:04 PM

Mangoes. Love em.

Subject: BS: What's your favorite fruit?
From: harpgirl
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:03 PM

It's blood orange season in Florida and they are my favorite. The oranges are all good here but bloods are especially sweet and juicy with no seeds. MMMMMMMMMMM

Wish I could share blood oranges with everyone:read about blood oranges