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Re: The best fruit
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:40 pm
by wm.oliver
seby wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:31 pm
Mangos!
The fuck is wrong with you people?
See... the thing about mangos- and I do like them- but flavor and texturewise they're a bit too close to somewhere between a peach and an apricot. They taste derivative. They're like that indie band that's 'a little bit Slint, a little bit Jesus Lizard'
Mangos really need to get their own style and identity. Otherwise they'll exist as a footnote in fruit history
Re: The best fruit
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2022 2:18 pm
by Andrew
I've never heard anyone call mangos derivative, so points for that I guess even if it's total nonsense!
Google tells me both mangos and peaches go back about 4,000 years (to what is now India and China, respectively).
Re: The best fruit
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:41 pm
by Dovira
Mangos are really good, as fruit, as juice, as ice-cream. Wild strawberries and cherries (not the ones that taste like almond paste) are really good. Passion fruit is really good. Cloudberry jam is unbeatable. The times that are right for water melon, there is nothing that could replace it. I do love rhubarb pie as well. Difficult.
The only ones I don't care for are dates and papaya.
Re: The best fruit
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2022 7:43 pm
by Geiginni
kokorodoko wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:41 pm
The only ones I don't care for are dates and papaya.
Papaya has an enzyme in it that when overly ripe tastes like vomit to me. This has ruined papaya for me in most cases.
Still nowhere near as bad as the rotten onion note in durian.
Green papaya can be okay.
No tropical food love for the jackfruit in this crowd? I'd put jackfruit and mangosteen over mangoes in the tropical fruit hierarchy.
Re: The best fruit
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2022 3:27 pm
by tommy
Assuming all the fruit is perfectly ripe: a peach wins every time for me. BUT man that is rarely ever the case these days. I personally think berries offer the best consistent vs tasty ratio.
I still voted peach. Fuck nectarines.
Re: The best fruit
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2022 3:31 pm
by tommy
wm.oliver wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:40 pm
See... the thing about mangos- and I do like them- but flavor and texturewise they're a bit too close to somewhere between a peach and an apricot. They taste derivative.
If you think mangoes taste like peaches and apricots, your palate is kinda fucked. Maybe if they are both underripe.
Re: The best fruit
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:55 am
by seby
Geiginni wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 7:43 pm
kokorodoko wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:41 pm
The only ones I don't care for are dates and papaya.
Papaya has an enzyme in it that when overly ripe tastes like vomit to me. This has ruined papaya for me in most cases.
Still nowhere near as bad as the rotten onion note in durian.
Green papaya can be okay.
No tropical food love for the jackfruit in this crowd? I'd put jackfruit and mangosteen over mangoes in the tropical fruit hierarchy.
Overripe papaya is the best! Rotting skin and dark orange mush are when they are ready
Re: The best fruit
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:57 am
by seby
Geiginni wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:33 pm
seby wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:31 pm
Mangos!
The fuck is wrong with you people?
In my part of the world, mangoes come in on a boat that may have taken well over a month or more to get from grove to grocer. They can be really hit or miss - either very unripe and stringy and weird once ripened, or overripe and with a 3-4 day window of edibility. Mangoes are suitable winter fruit, when the local apples, pears, stone fruit, berries, grapes, etc... are out of season.
Oregon is a paradise of local fruit. No need to eat high-carbon-footprint things from over halfway around the world when what is local is some of the best stuff anywhere.
Fair. Bad mangos are very boring, but I do live in a mango paradise and kinda take this for granted.
No votes for nashis?
Re: The best fruit
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2022 5:41 pm
by Geiginni
seby wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:57 am
No votes for nashis?
They grow a lot of them out in the Hood River area.
They also tend to be less sweet and floral than the best European and North American cultivars of pear. I use them when I make galbijjim, and eat a few here or there, but would rather have Comice, Cascade and Forelle varieties if I'm going through the trouble of getting local specialty pears.
Re: The best fruit
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:08 am
by seby
Geiginni wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 5:41 pm
seby wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:57 am
No votes for nashis?
They grow a lot of them out in the Hood River area.
They also tend to be less sweet and floral than the best European and North American cultivars of pear. I use them when I make galbijjim, and eat a few here or there, but would rather have Comice, Cascade and Forelle varieties if I'm going through the trouble of getting local specialty pears.
But they are soooooo crunchy : )