Let's get stuck into the FRUIT

[babycart]

Currently getting through about a pound of these a day as they're all dead juicy right now. Called paraguayos here, but I think I saw them in the UK as Chinese peaches



Also shoved my face right into this the other day and noshed away, rather than cutting polite slices. Brilliant.

Fig season soon. Yay!

What fruit are you eating?

[kestrel blazer]

I saw a box of these Peaches on Saturday at the Wholesalers in Fenham, they had them marked as 'Donut Peaches'.

We bought a box of over 100 Granny Smiths apples , £3.80, which is close enough for a .

[eric-adams]

loving them donut peaches at the moment

[relkeel]

Jazz apples.

[relkeel]

Actually i paid 18p for two fairtrade bananas this morning, which is a bit mad if you consider a chocolate bar is like 60p minimum and the bananas have traveled from the other side of the globe.

[Sie-Fly]

i'm awaiting the arrival of the LIMELON
http://reluctanthousedad.com/2012/07...its-a-limelon/

[effi_deep]

Jazz apples.

this!
and "pink lady".

[babycart]

i'm awaiting the arrival of the LIMELON
http://reluctanthousedad.com/2012/07...its-a-limelon/

Those are pretty disappointing, I'm afraid, although they may appeal to kiwi fans in search of another bland and slightly unpleasant fruit.

Chris Tanton, editor of the Fruit Grower magazine, said he thought the Limelon was a good idea.

“It is an interesting diversion,” he added.

“A melon is a nice fruit to eat, but it’s not intensely flavoured.

Chris Tanton doesn't know what he's on about, A proper ripe sweet melon is among the most intensely flavoured fruits that exists.

Anyone got any durian stories? I've never tried one, but it's well up my list.

Baby figs and vanilla ice cream yesterday. Oh yes.

[someblokecalledfuz]

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Anyone got any durian stories? I've never tried one, but it's well up my list.
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An aquired taste for sure... A friend of mine spent a year teaching in Thailand and used to really enjoy not only eating them but encouraging others to taste them too.

My abiding memory of the experience was that I couldn't spit it out quick enough, and was left thinking what could possibly persuade a sane mind to put that in their mouth? I mean the small is surely warning enough. Still, they are extremely popular in SE Asia - The king of fruits, aparently.

From Wiki:

"The smell evokes reactions from deep appreciation to intense disgust, and has been described variously as tert-Butylthiol, almonds, rotten onions, turpentine and gym socks."

Anthony Bourdain, a lover of durian, relates his encounter with the fruit thus: "Its taste can only be described as...indescribable, something you will either love or despise. ...Your breath will smell as if you'd been French-kissing your dead grandmother".

Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says: “... its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.”

Other comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs.


Personally as far as fruit goes you can't beat a juicy ripe melon, and I have to declare an absolute devotion to avocados, if that's actually a fruit.

[someblokecalledfuz]

Why can't I edit this?

[mr sayers]

I'm having some nice blue berries as I type.

[babycart]

[My abiding memory of the experience was that I couldn't spit it out quick enough, and was left thinking what could possibly persuade a sane mind to put that in their mouth? I mean the small is surely warning enough.

Fuz wins an Extreme Fruit badge!

I found a small ripe wild melon on a walk here a couple of years ago and bore it home in triumph.
I cut it, carved out a chunk and stuck it in my mouth to find it was the bitterest thing I've ever tasted. Like that stuff my mum put on my nails to stop me biting them, only worse. It took half a day to get rid of the flavour.
Avoid wild melons.

[ginghamkitchen]

Fuz wins an Extreme Fruit badge!

Like that stuff my mum put on my nails to stop me biting them, only worse.

Proustian rush on that one. I've got news for you, Mum - I STILL bite my nails, and I'm 44. I'll NEVER stop.

Anyway, my lifelong love affair with the pineapple continues. My corer is in use constantly.

[babycart]

I'll NEVER stop.
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Me neither. The nail paint only fostered a later appreciation for endives and radiccio.

[Mumbles]

Anyway, my lifelong love affair with the pineapple continues. My corer is in use constantly.

I love pineapple but my mouth always goes numb when I eat it. Hot chicken and cold melon is one of my Desert Island Dishes

[medlar]

Avoid wild melons.

Are courgette flowers battered and fried in Spain as in Italy? Last year I had a few courgette plants and a pumpkin plant growing in the garden. My wife picked both sets of flowers and went ahead with the battering and frying process. Avoid pumpkin flowers as a substitute for courgette flowers, bitter as anything!

[babycart]

Are courgette flowers battered and fried in Spain as in Italy? !

Nope, but I've done it myself.
Have you ever tried a medlar, Medlar?

[medlar]

Nope, but I've done it myself.
Have you ever tried a medlar, Medlar?

Yes, and I like them too

[Sie Vulture]

Why can't I edit this?

It's a browser thing and we can't get to the bottom of it at the mo... sorry...

[Sie Vulture]

Like that stuff my mum put on my nails to stop me biting them, only worse.

That'll be Bitrex - the most bitter substance known to man. I have made it, in my time...

[Sie Vulture]

What fruit are you eating?

Tomatoes. With almost every meal at the moment. Can't get enough of them.

So many varieties around to try at the mo, but at the end of the day the ones out of Grandad's shed really take some beating.

[medlar]

Folk will be insisting that aubergines are fruit next

[babycart]

That'll be Bitrex - the most bitter substance known to man. I have made it, in my time...
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I can get more of those wild melons if you want to make it even more bitterer.

I bet there's all sorts of hi jinks when one of the lads at the Bitrex lab orders a pint of bitter or a bitter lemon after work, eh?

[jakartajive]

During my time in Jakarta, and reflecting its obsession with all things American, the city was promoting itself as The Big Durian.
It seemed the perfect metaphor!

Durian are highly populist and very Indonesian. They are many things to many people, both loved and loathed with equal passion. Hotels and airlines refuse to stock them because of what is delicately termed the unusual odour created by opening them. Durian are space fruit! To Western eyes reared on the smooth, petite symmetry of oranges and apples, their jagged, spiky hedgehog exterior resembles a Star Trek prop or some kind of Martian missile. They are most distinctly alien. Large and lush green, with a tough, spiky shell. Inside are pockets of creamy white fruit, the juice from which can permanently stain almost any fabric. To some, the stench they emanate is equalled only by the city's open sewer network. To others, it is merely a vague unpleasantness more than compensated for the joy of the flesh. To me, they are like eating the world's best custard ....... in the world's worst toilet !!@#@!

One night, I watched an over-weight, middle-aged white man bargain and hassle a price with a beautiful Javanese prostitute. A typical Jakartan night scene. The mercantile leanings spill over into darkness, although now the market is for flesh. He was wearing a slate-grey shirt, which bulged at the buttons and showed sweat around the arm-pits. She was stunning in a tooth-white, stretched tight T-shirt, bearing the legend "Take A Bite Of The Big Durian" on the back, whilst a fruit adorned each breast on the front. Everything suddenly made a whole lot of sense. Such soursweet contrast and tension is the deep and hidden heart of the city. Raw and common and highly ambiguous. Strange and shocking and a barbed invitation to something else altogether.

[Mondays Child]

Are courgette flowers battered and fried in Spain as in Italy? Last year I had a few courgette plants and a pumpkin plant growing in the garden. My wife picked both sets of flowers and went ahead with the battering and frying process. Avoid pumpkin flowers as a substitute for courgette flowers, bitter as anything!

You can get 'em in parts of Mexico for sure, they're filled with a mixture of either mild soft goats cheese, or in Italy Ricotta, garlic, nuts and egg then they dip them in a batter made from flour and soda water, deep fry for a few minutes and then drizzle with wild honey! Not sure about Spain, although I though they were available as part of a Tapas in some places.

[babycart]

During my time in Jakarta, and reflecting its obsession with all things American, the city was promoting itself as The Big Durian.
It seemed the perfect metaphor!

Durian are highly populist and very Indonesian. They are many things to many people, both loved and loathed with equal passion. Hotels and airlines refuse to stock them because of what is delicately termed the unusual odour created by opening them. Durian are space fruit! To Western eyes reared on the smooth, petite symmetry of oranges and apples, their jagged, spiky hedgehog exterior resembles a Star Trek prop or some kind of Martian missile. They are most distinctly alien. Large and lush green, with a tough, spiky shell. Inside are pockets of creamy white fruit, the juice from which can permanently stain almost any fabric. To some, the stench they emanate is equalled only by the city's open sewer network. To others, it is merely a vague unpleasantness more than compensated for the joy of the flesh. To me, they are like eating the world's best custard ....... in the world's worst toilet !!@#@!

One night, I watched an over-weight, middle-aged white man bargain and hassle a price with a beautiful Javanese prostitute. A typical Jakartan night scene. The mercantile leanings spill over into darkness, although now the market is for flesh. He was wearing a slate-grey shirt, which bulged at the buttons and showed sweat around the arm-pits. She was stunning in a tooth-white, stretched tight T-shirt, bearing the legend "Take A Bite Of The Big Durian" on the back, whilst a fruit adorned each breast on the front. Everything suddenly made a whole lot of sense. Such soursweet contrast and tension is the deep and hidden heart of the city. Raw and common and highly ambiguous. Strange and shocking and a barbed invitation to something else altogether.

Just brilliant. I'm off home now with that post having made my day.

[purple_pill67]

Jazz apples.

Word

[eine]

Has anyone had a Honeycrisp yet? I don't think you can get them in the UK (??) but I've heard they are unbelievable, better than Pink Ladys.

[Bud Peyote]

I have not been buying or eating much fruit lately, but today on my way home from work I popped into the local grocery and while quickly scanning the fruit racks I found mango for just 50p each!
Chuffed, made my day.

Sorry no pics.