Tropical fruits

[LVSteve]

Cherries, seedless grapes and watermelon have been outstanding this year. Tomatoes too, but I'm not sure if they're a fruit or a vegetable.

I'm sure someone will be along to set the record straight.

Yep, we've only managed one dud watermelon this year. One puzzling thing is that some of the ones labeled "seedless" should have been marked "less seeds".

 

[Rustyt1953]

After 7 months my taste buds are regenerating. Logan went to the local farmers market and snagged a fresh cantaloupe for me.

The experience was surreal.

I felt like having a cigarette afterwards.

 

[rwsmith]

Figs. Try some figs.

We got a jar from my SIL this weekend!

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Don't use your poker game to make fruity decisions.

 

[dockmurgw]

At $1,50 each they were pricey

Are they really that expensive? Or are you preparing for a trip overseas and employing the improper use of an apostrophe?

 

[OutAtTheEdge]

Might I suggest keeping your eyes open for cotton-candy grapes? They are just what the name implies; grapes that taste oddly like cotton candy.

 

[Rule3]

Mangos?? There are so many Mango trees around here, I really do care for them but people are Mango Crazy!
Lots of exotic fruits around here.

 

[65-2x2]

Name this fruit?
Years ago, we had 50 Pineapple plants growing. Vine ripened cores, are soft and taste great.

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We called it "star fruit." When I lived in Miami I had a tree of them in my front yard. I could take them or leave them, but some folks loved the things.

 

[65-2x2]

Mangos?? There are so many Mango trees around here, I really do care for them but people are Mango Crazy!
Lots of exotic fruits around here.

The first hint of a taste in a Mango is good to me, but then an aftertaste kicks in and I find it disgusting. I was told that it was because of a genetic issue; something about people either being "tasters" or not. (I also had a Mango in my yard in Miami.)

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

Alas, oh, durian...I remember thee well...a fruit of infinite stink.
When I travelled the far east, you found out REAL quick what a durian was.
Went to Chinatown here some time back and there was a small fruit shop that sold them....I could tell from over a hundred yards away.

I had flashbacks.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

Ok, you can all stop...you're making me hungry.

 

[mtgianni]

Take 2 mangos and peel and slice one. Peel the other and puree it in a blender and mix it 1/3 with softened vanilla ice cream. Refreeze it for 20 minutes and serve it over the mango slices. Your waistline will hate me.

 

[Greyman50]

Usually eat a few blueberries, few pieces of cut up cantaloupe, few pieces of fresh cut up pineapple and a banana for breakfast. Coffee with little granola and small container of fat free yogurt. Have found Aldi has pretty good fresh fruit and their mangos are very good.

 

[Krogen]

Problem with fruit is you can't get properly ripened peaches, nectarines pears or plums anywhere and I refuse to waste money on rock hard tasteless stone fruit.

Let your nectarines sit on the counter for a week or 10 days. Let 'em get squishy. Don't wait too long, though, or they'll oversquish all over the counter. Properly "aged" they become Leanover Nectarines. As in you better lean over the sink when you eat 'em. The juice runs off your chin. Life's too short for "rock hard tasteless stone fruit."