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Which fruit do you feel differs the most in quality from piece to piece?

I'm gonna cast a vote for plums. I'll go through months of terrible plums just becuase I have one amazing one. I recently got hooked on Chilean black plums, but I just had to spit a chuck of one across the room because it was so vile.

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Watermelon. My standards are so high. The problem is that everyone else's aren't - it'll be a hot day and they'll bring out this mushy, chalky insult of a watermelon and they'll all be, "Mmm, watermelon" and I'm sitting there feeling all spoiled, wasteful and right-wing because I can even finish half a slice, and they're all like, "But it's WATERMELON!" Same thing happens with shitty lobster too - "Dude, lobster's lobster!"

― LC, Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Not a good / bad quality issue, but one of my favourite things about eating blueberries is the variation between the flavours of each one.

― jazz odysseus (jazz odysseus), Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Plums and peaches, by far.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Apples, probably. Mealy apples are the worst. Stringy mangoes are really bad too, though. Ew, and mushy grapes, and flavorless pears, and waxy cherries and bananas that are just sweet, dry stickiness that make the back of my mouth ache. This is probably why I usually just eat pizza.

― kirsten (kirsten), Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Apples, probably. Mealy apples are the worst.

Ugh, very very very true. Crispness or nothing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I too am in agreement re: apples, because the best apples around can be the most awesome-tasting things around, while the ones that have been laying about for ages can taste like the most horrific things and put you off apples for days.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 8 May 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

TEH ORNAGE

― Aaron A., Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Grapes. A good bunch is something divine. A bad bunch isn't bad necessarily, just bland.

― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

mango! though watermelon is super high also.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

peaches can be such heartbreakers!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean so can most fruit, i guess, everyone is right

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

you know what's good? you stick that bag of grapes in the freezer and it's summer fun all summer long

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Fruit's a gamble.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

we sure live on the edge here at ilx!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Without a doubt oranges. A good orange is lovely and refereshing - a bad orange fills your mouth up with string, takes years to eat, is messy, and gives you tummy ache.

― Johnney B, Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

What about pears - they're hard and unripe FOREVER, then there's a 10-minute window of ripeness when they're IDEAL, and then they ROT IMMEDIATELY. They ought to have a timer that rings when they get good so you don't miss it.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Saturday, 8 May 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

blood oranges!

also mangos

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 8 May 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of the fruit distress mentioned above has to do with whether the fruit is being eaten in or out of season, I think, and not the fruit itself. Why blame the poor apple for being mealy after it's sat lonesome and forlorn in cold storage for months? You'd be mealy too! A lot of fruit, when it's eaten in season, is pretty consistent: peaches, nectarines, apples, pears. That said, cherries and watermelon have my vote. Cherries are the worst-- nobody really has the time to scrutinize every cherry as they go into the bag, and is there a bigger heartbreaker than getting one of those flabby, squashy cherries with the hematoma-coloured flesh and the taste of decay when you're expecting a crisp winner? The way that pit oozes out the hole from the stem and deposits itself into your cheek coated with viscous goo-- ugh ugh ugh.

― antexit (antexit), Saturday, 8 May 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

apples yep, and bananas for sure - dud = woody and dry bananas.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 8 May 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

antexit OTM. If you buy an orange between mid-November and the end of January (UK) it will never be a dud. If you buy oranges outside this period, it's hit and miss. Apples store OK, but they're best in the autumn and the later in the year after that, the longer they've been stored and the more likely they are to be going over the top.

If you bite into an unripe peach, it's your own fault. If it doesn't smell sweet, it won't taste sweet. If it doesn't give a bit under pressure from a finger, it will be like a bullet in your mouth. You can tell what most fruit's going to be like by sniffing and feeling. If you tap a watermelon on the stalk end and it sounds hollow, it's likely to be a good'un. Other melons can be sniffed. The only exception is the honeydew - I haven't yet found a trick for ascertaining its readyness. Even at the height of summer, half of them seem to be watery and flavourless and half are juicy and sweet. So that is my nomination: the honeydew melon.

― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 8 May 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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