Taking Sides: apples vs. oranges

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I thought you guys could help me settle a debate: a friend of mine thinks that oranges are superior to apples because oranges aren't "afraid of doing something new", to go out and bare themselves utterly. They also reportedly make good juice (I wouldn't know, I only own them in vinyl bags.) The apple, meanwhile, is supposedly "cliche". Also, according to him: "I mean, come on, if we're gonna eat apples we might as just say "to hell with it" and end the fruit scene right away. because if you've already made up your mind, if you already believe nothing is as great as the apple, then you have no business enjoying fruit!"

Me, I think he's a tablegazing, Indie Fruit Stand, avante appettite poser. The orange represents everything that's wrong with modern society! Smug, style-over-substance, totally reliant on shock factor. C'mon, you peel it? I mean, how disturbingly sexist can you get? The apple has skin that can- and should- be eaten, too. It accepts EVERYONE- an inclusive stance, like Primal Scream. And so what if they're cliché? That's only because they're so DAMN GREAT that too many people ended up liking them. Thus the hipsters have moved on to stuff like pineapples, and if I have to explain to you what's wrong with THAT, well, I'd much rather go to a Journey concert.

What do you guys think?

― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 8 September 2002 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Apples have no taste, at least ice is cold when you eat it. But i can tell you this: Apple Fanta is ten hundred times better than Orange Fanta

― vic (vicc13), Sunday, 8 September 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

the two are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 8 September 2002 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm working on a book: Sexual Encounters With Fruits
Look for it in the fall...

― Juan Marquez, Sunday, 8 September 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Who cares? Anyone who's on top of things has already moved onto tangerines anyways.

― Nate Patrin, Sunday, 8 September 2002 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Tangerines are just orange wannabes. There are so many things that want to be just like oranges: mandarins, tangerines, grapefruit, lemons, limes, kumquats...you name it. Apples, on the other hand, don't have that many imitators, unless you count the many different varieties of apples, but that's semantic piddling and is much like trying to detail the differences between the different colours of M&Ms.

Taking sides: Brown vs. orange M&Ms.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 8 September 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Tangerines = I want to be a orange but i dont have enough class to make it

PS: I wrote that before Sean did and i completely agree with him(except on the bit about lemon and limes)

― vic (vicc13), Sunday, 8 September 2002 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean... i didnt wrote before Sean did, i wrote it without reading what he had written, that PS went out so arrogant

― vic (vicc13), Sunday, 8 September 2002 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

The whole apple backlash pisses me off. All these anti-trendy fruit eating jackasses, they need to be shot. As for oranges, they've influenced a whole lot of other great fruit, but I find oranges themselves to be really dull compared to the fruit they've inspired. But at least they aren't lemons, quite possibly the most overrated fruit in the history of edible plant life.

― My name is Kenny, Sunday, 8 September 2002 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The thing that may have gotten lost in my previous post was that just because all of these other citrusy fruits want to be just like the orange, that doesn't make them inferior to the orange by any means. I bring this up in the hopes that some of these deluded fruits will start to chart their own course in the future. I mean, the lemon is obviously so upset that it isn't as round as the orange that it's become bitter and somewhat jaundiced. The lime, on the other hand, has simply become green with envy and if not exactly as bitter as the lemon, is still sometimes a bit thin skinned about criticism that it is not like the orange. How sad. The mandarin, while also a bit thin-skinned, has taken a different approach and goes into hiding many months of the year, appearing only seasonally to give the world its best shot...to great effect, too, because around Christmas the mandarin (or the Clementine in some areas) is really quite popular, maybe even more so than the orange proper. But alas, this popularity isn't to last, which is why it disappears for months on end.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 8 September 2002 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

But the theres not one fruit taht combines so well with sugar as lemons. I mean they make the best juice(im excluding tropical fruits on the juice part though) and the best sodas. Even feking pure lemon wiht sugar is good

― vic (vicc13), Sunday, 8 September 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"But the theres not one fruit taht combines so well with sugar as lemons"

But is working well with a group centered around a has-been like Bob Mould really something to be proud of? I've heard that meat and potatoes (who are JUST AS WORTHY of being analysed and respected as, say, the orange- damn you fruitists!) work well with The Stereophonics, but surely that doesn't make them any more exciting?

― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 8 September 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

oranges influenced tangerines?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 9 September 2002 02:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Did Tangerine Dream influence the Oranges Band?

― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 9 September 2002 02:31 (twenty-three years ago)

cue mark s: "oranges don't exist!"

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 9 September 2002 02:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Oranges DO exist and their internal parts and tactility of getting-to makes them superfine. plus I've never had a mealy orange.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 September 2002 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

so i guess they are totally different

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 September 2002 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

hang on I HAVE had a mealy orange and it was terrible, more terrible than any mealy apple. wait so they're not different after all??!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 September 2002 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I ate bananas in a small underground produce section back in '83. That was before any of you poseurs knew about them.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 9 September 2002 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

tomatoes used to be called love-apples so let's call oranges rage-lemons!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 September 2002 07:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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