Favourite Fruit

[Puckoon]

Thats crazy fred.

[The Real Laoislad]

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

[Puckoon]

polly pineapple - or pear pickin porky. Take your pick.

Now, an original solero - theres a treat of a warm summers evenin.

[Yes I Would]

Ice lolly. That girl that pulled plums all summer, you got her number Puck?? Might have some work for her

[fred the red]

Thats crazy fred.

Im a crazy guy"!

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

[The Real Laoislad]

polly pineapple - or pear pickin porky. Take your pick.

[The Real Laoislad]

Thats crazy fred.

Im a crazy guy"!

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?

[Puckoon]

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)

[maggie]

pear picking porkys rocked- do they still do them??

[Yes I Would]

You bet they do. still a great cure after a nite on the beer.

[downgirl]

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??

[maggie]

star fruit-dunno if thats the PC name for it, but its shaped like a star- bitter as anything-rank

[pintsofguinness]

Anyone else any exotic fruits to recommend/advise against??

grapes

[fred the red]

Anyone else any exotic fruits to recommend/advise against??

Stay clear of the dingleberries, especially after a nite on the sauce!

[Puckoon]

Lychees are definitely a funky texture.




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.