Whats everyone's favourite fruit?
Im a fan of both bananas and strawberries, but melons are at the top of my list.
Red Apples or Kiwi's...I eat skin and all on a Kiwi
Hard to beat a couple of melons first thing in the morning.
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Big fan of a nice pear.
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 10:46:53 PM
Big fan of a nice pear.
Hard to get a good one..I like them a tad hard but still nice and juicy
Hard to eat a pear gracefully.
a orange is the same...I like little mandarins (sp?)
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The battle of an orange is in the peeling. Once you get a good peel going its great. Unless you have a rag nail. With a pear its different - you can bite it and get it all down your chin, or you can cut it and go through 3 or 4 napkins.
You a fan of a good juicy berry then minder? :D
Pomello is a great fruit - kinda like a big grapefriuit. Terrible bitter skin though.
is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable
Depends how you pronounce it. Tom (ah) toe is a fruit. Tom (aay) toe is a vegetable. One thing is for certain - its not a fecking legume.
The ideal pear has to be nice and moist with the juice running out if it!!
A pear is the only thing Ill eat when its a little over ripe. Everything else must be bang on the money.
Now - red or green apples?
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 11:04:40 PM
A pear is the only thing Ill eat when its a little over ripe. Everything else must be bang on the money.
Now - red or green apples?
Do you not enjoy melon slighty over ripe?
It has to be green apples all the way!
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 10:57:15 PM
The battle of an orange is in the peeling. Once you get a good peel going its great. Unless you have a rag nail. With a pear its different - you can bite it and get it all down your chin, or you can cut it and go through 3 or 4 napkins.
Hate when you get the skin stuck in your fingernails after peeling it and then when you bite your nails a while later you can taste it-ewwww.
Red Apples hands down...Green apples are too bitter
Not a big melon fan - although we eat alot of watermelon. Wouldnt know much about them - the wife asked me to bring home some watermelon last week and she went crazy at the two I picked. They were too hollow sounding she said. Made me take them back. So I brought her a bag of doritos.
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 11:07:26 PM
Not a big melon fan - although we eat alot of watermelon. Wouldnt know much about them - the wife asked me to bring home some watermelon last week and she went crazy at the two I picked. They were too hollow sounding she said. Made me take them back. So I brought her a bag of doritos.
A box to the ears wouldn't have gone astray on her
Red apples all the way. Granny smiths are too f**king sweet and golden delicious are just too bland!
Strawberries during the summer with lashings of ice cream is an owl favourite as well
Golden delicious for me. Dont like red apples at all. Hard to ate them with my wee mouth.
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on July 23, 2008, 11:09:17 PM
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 11:07:26 PM
Not a big melon fan - although we eat alot of watermelon. Wouldnt know much about them - the wife asked me to bring home some watermelon last week and she went crazy at the two I picked. They were too hollow sounding she said. Made me take them back. So I brought her a bag of doritos.
A box to the ears wouldn't have gone astray on her
We dont want this thread turning into a discussion on a certain brand of beer now :D
Pink lady apples
I spent a summer picking strawberries back in the day...
I ate more than i put in my bucket!
Also done the fruit picking in OZ for about 2 hours!
Quote from: fred the red on July 23, 2008, 11:11:12 PM
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on July 23, 2008, 11:09:17 PM
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 11:07:26 PM
Not a big melon fan - although we eat alot of watermelon. Wouldnt know much about them - the wife asked me to bring home some watermelon last week and she went crazy at the two I picked. They were too hollow sounding she said. Made me take them back. So I brought her a bag of doritos.
A box to the ears wouldn't have gone astray on her
We dont want this thread turning into a discussion on a certain brand of beer now :D
Aye but she would have deserved it for acting like that
green apples or an orange cut in four or 6 pieces with the skin on, just suck the juice out
had a pear today though, jury is still out on pears
Get off the fence gold - you either like em or you dont! How could you not like a pear. Its funny - I hate the artificial "flavours" of the fruits I like. Apple, pear and banana flavours are not good.
I do love blueberry or apple pie
Theres a woman works here makes this thing called a dump cake. Sounds bad - but it isnt. She basically 'dumps" a bunch of stuff in the pan and bakes it. Great combination of ruhbarb and pineapple. Smashing.
Green apples. Though I've red ones growing here that are nice too.
Blueberries, strawberries and mango.
Its a fruit salad really that you need, little bit of everyting to tickle the taste buds!!
except rhubarb and f**king pineapple!!
Its a great combo - no doubt. Never understood the mind of a person that doesnt like pineapple. Mango is a good shout treas - but its a damn messy handlin unless you buy the pre sliced ones.
Rhubarb crumble is amazing!
also like grapes, though they have to be seedless, and sprinkled with water!
Christ i hate rhubarb...
I remember doing work for a little old lady once and she asked me if i would like some tart..I said of course i would Mrs..
When i dug in what was it only f**king rhubarb,I had to eat the whole fecking thing as she was just after baking it and i didn't want to hurt her feelings.
I'm such a nice fella so i am
You probably charged her double LL!
Fred - next time yer chef is making a rubharb crumble - get her to put some pineapple in there.
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 11:25:26 PM
You probably charged her double LL!
Fred - next time yer chef is making a rubharb crumble - get her to put some pineapple in there.
sounds like an interesting dish puck, il have to get her to get onto it!
Good shout on pineapple..I put it on my burgers
Plums!! How could I forget them. Though sometimes they're just pain nasty.
Peaches?
Remember barfing my guts up over the dinner table as a child after being forced to eat rhubarb crumble and custard. That learnt the ma a valuable lesson.
Never ate it since. Pineapple juice, yes, porky pineapples, yes, Pineapples no!! Strange that!
Yeah could polish of a bag of either green or purple grapes, once i get going. Never heard of the water over them! Whats that about?
Peaches as with plums - needs to be a good one. I knew a woman who pulled plums once for a whole summer.
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 11:29:18 PM
Peaches as with plums - needs to be a good one. I knew a woman who pulled plums once for a whole summer.
Bet she had a sore wrist ;)
Quote from: Yes I Would on July 23, 2008, 11:28:36 PM
Remember barfing my guts up over the dinner table as a child after being forced to eat rhubarb crumble and custard. That learnt the ma a valuable lesson.
Never ate it since. Pineapple juice, yes, porky pineapples, yes, Pineapples no!! Strange that!
Yeah could polish of a bag of either green or purple grapes, once i get going. Never heard of the water over them! Whats that about?
Just dont like them too dry!
Thats crazy fred.
Quote from: Yes I Would on July 23, 2008, 11:28:36 PM
Remember barfing my guts up over the dinner table as a child after being forced to eat rhubarb crumble and custard. That learnt the ma a valuable lesson.
Never ate it since. Pineapple juice, yes, porky pineapples, yes, Pineapples no!! Strange that!
Yeah could polish of a bag of either green or purple grapes, once i get going. Never heard of the water over them! Whats that about?
Whats porky pineapples ???
polly pineapple - or pear pickin porky. Take your pick.
Now, an original solero - theres a treat of a warm summers evenin.
Ice lolly. That girl that pulled plums all summer, you got her number Puck?? Might have some work for her
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 11:31:00 PM
Thats crazy fred.
Im a crazy guy"!
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on July 23, 2008, 11:31:35 PM
Quote from: Yes I Would on July 23, 2008, 11:28:36 PM
Remember barfing my guts up over the dinner table as a child after being forced to eat rhubarb crumble and custard. That learnt the ma a valuable lesson.
Never ate it since. Pineapple juice, yes, porky pineapples, yes, Pineapples no!! Strange that!
Yeah could polish of a bag of either green or purple grapes, once i get going. Never heard of the water over them! Whats that about?
Whats porky pineapples ???
Ice lollies, p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p........pppp.ick up a porky
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 11:33:23 PM
polly pineapple - or pear pickin porky. Take your pick.
???
Quote from: fred the red on July 23, 2008, 11:34:04 PM
Quote from: Puckoon on July 23, 2008, 11:31:00 PM
Thats crazy fred.
Im a crazy guy"!
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on July 23, 2008, 11:31:35 PM
Quote from: Yes I Would on July 23, 2008, 11:28:36 PM
Remember barfing my guts up over the dinner table as a child after being forced to eat rhubarb crumble and custard. That learnt the ma a valuable lesson.
Never ate it since. Pineapple juice, yes, porky pineapples, yes, Pineapples no!! Strange that!
Yeah could polish of a bag of either green or purple grapes, once i get going. Never heard of the water over them! Whats that about?
Whats porky pineapples ???
Ice lollies, p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p........pppp.ick up a porky
Must be a Northern thing i guess
and is it not p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.pppick up a penguin?
Its just a wee cheap ice lolly we have up there. used to be 18p when I was a youngster. Pear flavoured (pear pickin porky) or a pineapple flavoured (polly pineapple)
pear picking porkys rocked- do they still do them?? :-\
You bet they do. still a great cure after a nite on the beer.
Pineapple could eat it all the time!
Saw this weird looking thing in Asda one day decided to get it and try it...Dragonfruit...its like a pink and spiky looking thing...cut it open and it looks like frogspawn, doesn't have a taste and all you can feel is eating seeds. Yuk. Anyone actually like the thing?
Passion Fruit is another weird one, not sure if I like it or not it was quite sour the time I tried it, but it's nice in smoothies!
One of my friends lived in Thailand for a few years and she brought back lychees with her and made me try some...it was a while ago now so I can't quite remember what they were like, but I'd say if I thought they were horrible I probably would have remembered!
Anyone else any exotic fruits to recommend/advise against??
star fruit-dunno if thats the PC name for it, but its shaped like a star- bitter as anything-rank
QuoteAnyone else any exotic fruits to recommend/advise against??
grapes
Quote from: downgirl on July 23, 2008, 11:40:43 PM
Anyone else any exotic fruits to recommend/advise against??
Stay clear of the dingleberries, especially after a nite on the sauce!
Lychees are definitely a funky texture.
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This is one to avoid - father in law made me try it once. We were eating it outside and still the smell was revolting. Durian its called.
While Wallace cautions that "the smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable", later descriptions by westerners are more graphic. British novelist Anthony Burgess writes that eating durian is "like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory."[16] Chef Andrew Zimmern compares the taste to "completely rotten, mushy onions."[17] Anthony Bourdain, while a lover of durian, relates his encounter with the fruit as 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."[18] 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.[19] "
Hydrogen sulphide, one of the chemical compounds that may be responsible for the characteristic odour of durianOther comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs.[20] The wide range of descriptions for the odour of durian may have a great deal to do with the variability of durian odour itself.
Quote from: pintsofguinness on July 23, 2008, 11:43:00 PM
QuoteAnyone else any exotic fruits to recommend/advise against??
grapes
Are grapes really exotic pog?!! Never really warmed to grapes myself I have to admit!!
Quote from: downgirl on July 23, 2008, 11:44:49 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on July 23, 2008, 11:43:00 PM
QuoteAnyone else any exotic fruits to recommend/advise against??
grapes
Are grapes really exotic pog?!! Never really warmed to grapes myself I have to admit!!
as far as I'm concerned anything other than apples and oranges is exotic.
Quote from: hardstation on July 23, 2008, 11:45:49 PM
Any mingers on here like grapefruit? Feckin' rotten.
What does it taste like? Never tried it.
A lovely red apple.
Quote from: downgirl on July 23, 2008, 11:49:33 PM
Quote from: hardstation on July 23, 2008, 11:45:49 PM
Any mingers on here like grapefruit? Feckin' rotten.
What does it taste like? Never tried it.
Youve never tried grapefruit? Its bitter - but in a good way. Right healthy breakfast - some canned grapefruit with a wee can of mandarins thrown in for good measure.
Quote from: hardstation on July 23, 2008, 11:50:19 PM
Sour, stinking, sour stuff. And muck.
Ack its not that bad.
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on July 23, 2008, 11:31:35 PM
Quote from: Yes I Would on July 23, 2008, 11:28:36 PM
Remember barfing my guts up over the dinner table as a child after being forced to eat rhubarb crumble and custard. That learnt the ma a valuable lesson.
Never ate it since. Pineapple juice, yes, porky pineapples, yes, Pineapples no!! Strange that!
Yeah could polish of a bag of either green or purple grapes, once i get going. Never heard of the water over them! Whats that about?
Whats porky pineapples ???
You probably wouldn't have got them in the Republic, they were made by Dale Farm. Are they still about??
Does Magners count??
Grapefruit is vile.
A nice big banana.
I like grapefruit the morning after a few drinks.
Innocent smoothies for kids- no bits in them but lots of fruit
Yea Puck, never tried it. I'm not good with trying new fruits or veg to be honest, and I don't like oranges and grapefruit reminds me of a big orange :D
Quote from: maggie on July 23, 2008, 11:54:55 PM
Innocent smoothies for kids- no bits in them but lots of fruit
Talking about innocent smoothies, I'm doing Slimming World at the moment, and I got one of the books with the syn values of everything in it, and apparently a 250ml glass of Innocent smoothie is 6 syns (you are allowed 10-15 syns a day)...but I don't get that cus their claim is that their smoothies contain nothing but fruit (which is a 'free' food on the slimming world plan) so how can one glass of smoothie be 6 syns???!
Quote from: downgirl on July 23, 2008, 11:57:08 PM
Quote from: maggie on July 23, 2008, 11:54:55 PM
Innocent smoothies for kids- no bits in them but lots of fruit
Talking about innocent smoothies, I'm doing Slimming World at the moment, and I got one of the books with the syn values of everything in it, and apparently a 250ml glass of Innocent smoothie is 6 syns (you are allowed 10-15 syns a day)...but I don't get that cus their claim is that their smoothies contain nothing but fruit (which is a 'free' food on the slimming world plan) so how can one glass of smoothie be 6 syns???!
Sorry, we'lll have to refer that to our slimming world help desk
;)
Aw pog I thought you would have been able to help me out on that on :P
Quote from: downgirl on July 23, 2008, 11:57:08 PM
Quote from: maggie on July 23, 2008, 11:54:55 PM
Innocent smoothies for kids- no bits in them but lots of fruit
Talking about innocent smoothies, I'm doing Slimming World at the moment, and I got one of the books with the syn values of everything in it, and apparently a 250ml glass of Innocent smoothie is 6 syns (you are allowed 10-15 syns a day)...but I don't get that cus their claim is that their smoothies contain nothing but fruit (which is a 'free' food on the slimming world plan) so how can one glass of smoothie be 6 syns???!
Jeez, thanks for telling me that, maybe thats why im turning into a fattie, i usually have a glass of it with me brekkie
Acai fruit...........delicious in smoothies, impossible to get as a fresh fruit outside of the Amazon area. Innocent smoothies do a lovely mix with pomegranates and blueberries. And its great for you. It can be mixed with crushed ice as a summer drink or in with museli.............gorgeous !
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Those Banana guards are handy :D
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You sure you have right thread Derry Devil!!
This is a thread about fruit, right? :P
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Oh am with ya now. Didnt know what the hell that was!! ???
haha, sure I mentioned banana guard above the first pic ;)
so i see. yes it def looks handy.
You could paint it balck and use it as an imitation gun!!
Quote from: Yes I Would on July 24, 2008, 12:14:54 AM
Oh am with ya now. Didnt know what the hell that was!! ???
I know what you thought, you dirty fecker :D
Quote from: ziggysego on July 24, 2008, 12:26:16 AM
Quote from: Yes I Would on July 24, 2008, 12:14:54 AM
Oh am with ya now. Didnt know what the hell that was!! ???
I know what you thought, you dirty fecker :D
I'm appalled ;)
Quote from: Derry Devil on July 24, 2008, 12:27:40 AM
Quote from: ziggysego on July 24, 2008, 12:26:16 AM
Quote from: Yes I Would on July 24, 2008, 12:14:54 AM
Oh am with ya now. Didnt know what the hell that was!! ???
I know what you thought, you dirty fecker :D
I'm appalled ;)
I bet your not!! It does have a striking resemblance!!