Friday Fun: Fruit !

Veronique DUFOUR

Happy Friday Everyone!

Here's the question of the week: What is your favorite fruit ?

Finding and trying new fruits is something I like a lot. When I was young, I wasn't aware that there were other fruits than apples, oranges, bananas, clementine, water melon, pineapple, grapefruit, peaches, cantaloupe, dates, plum, strawberries, blueberries apricots, raspberries and cherries.

Then I got this book that I still have and continue to look at, and discovered that there were more than I originally thought like mangoes, kiwis, khakis, litchis … Over the years, I was able to try many of them.

Then after a few years I went to Dubai for work and discovered many other fruits or varieties of the same fruit that I didn't know about. Of course I tried some of them but since they were not in the above book, I didn't know how to choose them at their best so maybe I didn't choose right when I tried the snake fruit (salak). But when I tried the rose apple I was happily surprised by its taste. 

Recently I had a discussion about exotic fruits with friends and someone told me about a documentary film that I could like. https://www.nfb.ca/film/fruit-hunters/

And again, while watching it, I was surprised to learn that more exotics fruits exist! I like fruits a lot so when someone asks me what's my favorite fruit, I still hesitate, but today, I'm choosing the mangosteen.

What is your favorite fruit ?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I'll cheat as I usually do in these questions, and name two:

My favourite fruit that I can easily get my paws on because it is (now) seen as a stock item all suppliers should have on the shelves:  The avocado.  (Note, I do not have a sweet tooth)

But I do prefer fruits that are harder to find in the UK, like soapberries (lychee, longan and ackee), physalis, and spanish lime.  The winner however, is something I always mis-remember as a "monsoon plum" and have to look up, coming back to one of its real names -  Malabar Plum 

(Oh, and in last place is pineapple.  It's not for pizza.  Not because it doesn't work on pizza, but because it's downright horrid and shouldn't be on or in anything I might taste)