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English Morello sour cherries make the very best pie there is (can’t wait for mine to ripen!) and for eating out of hand, a perfect, juicy Kit Donnell or Baby Crawford peach. The super-rare Anya apricots from Andy’s Orchard in Morgan Hill, CA that made me not just like apricots for the first time but absolutely swoon over them. Green Gage plums, which look like large green cherries, also from Andy’s. So good.
I got about ten pounds of sour cherries off my EM tree last year and it’s not even six feet tall yet.
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It’s interesting how popular this post is, how many of us have added content, enthusiastically discussing our favorite fruit tastes -within a week of the first publication of this thread.
All these sweet tasting fruit that we are enthusiastically discussing have such an impact on our brains, which have evolved to release dopamine and other Reward system neurotransmitters, whenever we are exposed to fructose!
It seems that the foods have hacked our Homo sapiens circuitry conscripting us to graft, clone, spread, and spend hours and hours protecting and cultivating fruit plants.
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I agree it’s quite interesting
it’s funny I voted vegetables. I love so many veggies more than fruit in general. durian as a fruit stands alone above other foods, but any other fruit isn’t as appealing to me as really textured, flavorful vegetables. roasted radishes, fried beets, kimchi, fresh lemon cucumbers, tomatoes. I don’t have much for a sweet tooth though
I grow fruit because I’m very lazy in the garden and veggies are harder to weed and keep up.
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That’s cool, I don’t like vegetables as much but its cool that you do. I myself like some vegetables but not above fruit
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Hood strawberries, thomcord grapes, Indian Free peaches, Marionberries, and bing cherries.
Growing up in a tropical country, I have tasted many varieties of mango straight from the trees. Some of them are heaven. I could not believe that someone could not like mango until I came to temperate regions and tasted a supermarket mango. If that had been my first encounter with a mango I would’ve not liked them either. In the flip side, we only had supermarket apples back home, and now I know the variety was red delicious. I didn’t like apples for a long time because of that. The realization made me be cautious rejecting any food until I have had the chance to tried several times and in the case of fruits, trying them where they are grown. In my bucket list is Thailand to try mangosteen.
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100% this! Some types of fruit ripen ok when picked early enough to ship across the planet (bananas, for example), but mangoes definitely aren’t one of those. Peaches are another one that are never as good from supermarkets as fresh from the tree, unless you’re near an area where they are grown.
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Of those who’ve had American persimmons, how would you rank them compared to other fruits?
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Yeah Mango would be towards the bottom of my favorite fruit list, but I bet if I really did taste them off a tree things would change my mind
Take the texture of a soft mushy plum and replace the flavor with the most delicious vanilla ice cream you ever had and add sugar. Then take out the cream.
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For me, American persimmon is in the category of fruits that I would definitely eat if free, but would not go out of my way to seek out. Always nice to find a wild tree and forage a tasty fruit.
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Foraged these last November…
Very few fruit options at that time… here anyway. Found more into early December while foraging for late hickory nuts and they were soooo good.
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I just had Korean melon (torpedo?) for the first time and it’s so so crunchy. it’s incredible I had no idea.
Is that a…mango?
Yes, a very spicy mango !
The kind that don’t get grown, nor shipped all the way to zone #6.
You will need to schedule a tip to Truly Tropical or to Mango Men with spicy West Indian mangoes are in season to have anything similar.
Ask when (Angie, Carrie & Julie are ripe.
Lots of other very awesome mangoes there.
yum…what variety?
It wasn’t labeled.
It was mixed in with the Keitt, but it definitely is not Keitt.
Not sure what it is as greenish black when ripe.
Flavor closest to that of Angie!