Which fruit do you avoid?
Mine is pineapple. I dislike all forms...fresh, canned, dried & even the juice! It is a texture thing for me & not crazy about the taste, either :( Really gets under my skin when I discover some hiding in a piece of carrot cake! What fruit would you rather not eat?
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None. In fact, off the top of my head, the only food I really have a problem with is bamboo shoots. The smell, ugh.
NSW at 12:56PM on 12/03/07
Generally, I am not a picky eater, but believe it or not, I hate bananas. This is a sacrilege to many. I can't even take the smell. When someone else is eating one, I try not take deep breaths. I personally love pineapple, but I can appreciate JEP's frustration with finding it hidden in things. I have the same reaction when a muffin is mislabeled and I pick it up and then smell the banana in it. Bah!
psychsarah at 1:00PM on 12/03/07
Paw paws. Never tasted one, but the smell--oh, lord, the smell. Somebody used to bring them from his tree into my workplace for one of my colleagues...though in a different office, I'd make her take them out to the car, or shove them in a closet; but preferably somewhere outside the building...
Lilla at 1:24PM on 12/03/07
This one is tough I do not like cooked fruit, but love dried fruit. Will eat cooked apples but not berries ever. I don't like a pina colada but love pineapple on the ham and in fresh fruit salad. Picky eater here.
JerzeeTomato at 1:47PM on 12/03/07
Avoid fruit? I can't think of a single one. I don't care so much for cooked strawberries, I guess. Other than that, there's no such thing as a bad fruit. Fresh, dried, cooked, or otherwise.
ErikaWaz at 2:03PM on 12/03/07
Bananas...iiick
hammondcheese at 2:18PM on 12/03/07
I recently learned that eggplant is actually a fruit. So, I can say that I don't care for (actually have never tried) RAW eggplant. Love it cooked!
I love fruit. Only odor that bothers me is Cheerios. My sister had allergies and ate Cheerios with apricot nectar....to this day the smell of either makes me ill.
PerkyMac at 2:19PM on 12/03/07
Mango. I know most people love it, but I've never been able to stomach it. I love all fruit other than that.
elderberry44 at 2:31PM on 12/03/07
JEP...you don't like pineapple?! Uh-oh, I may have to disown you ;)
As for me...I am not too fond of honeydew or most melons. I'll eat them but they're definitely last resort in the fruit bowl.
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Chew on That at 2:46PM on 12/03/07
Cantelope-and most melons(except watermelon)- eww.
Raw mangos- mostly taste like slimy rotten carrots- I keep trying to like them. However-I LOVE mango lassi at my local Indian restaurant.
I'm with you PerkyMac-cherrios smell foul.
bisbee at 2:51PM on 12/03/07
The Pomelo. I have purchased and eaten exactly one of them because it's all skin and no citrusy payoff.
Love bananas but they don't love me.
chiff0nade at 3:18PM on 12/03/07
Papaya - I'm allergic. Weird because I can eat mango and guava and any other tropical fruit, but give me papaya and it's like I've got the plague.
CookiePie at 3:37PM on 12/03/07
Not such a fan of papaya, mostly because of the texture, although the flavour has never knocked my socks off either - give me a mango or guava any day though! How do you all feel about persimmons? Or passion fruit? I like 'em, but they can be a bit squishy so I'm curious to hear what others think...
emmab at 4:02PM on 12/03/07
I prefer crisp fruit, bananas, berries and pineapple. I'm really weird about texture and don't like oranges (gasp!). I don't like mango or papaya either. I like how many fruits smell though, and I like them in a smoothie.
And PerkyMac, I used to live in a town with General Mills. Anywhere within a mile radius smelled strongly of Cheerios!! Luckily, I didn't mind, but I didn't live near it either and have to smell it constantly.
misseditor at 4:32PM on 12/03/07
Yep, pineapple; it's just too sweet for me. I can have maybe one bite of the fresh stuff (I keep trying to like it), and then I am done. Love all other fruits, though.
ride&cook at 4:42PM on 12/03/07
Bananas. They bind me up tighter than a trussed up turkey!
jonfoxx at 4:46PM on 12/03/07
There's not a single fruit I don't at least kind of like, and most fruit I love. However, strawberries that are cooked in any way are just disgusting to me. It's a textural thing. The taste is fine, but they get so slimy.
rockykay at 4:47PM on 12/03/07
I will pretty much eat any fruit as long as it is properly ripe. Cantaloupe doesn't like me very much, so I tend to avoid that one. And, not big on papaya, but I'll eat it. Just a bit strong flavored for me. Much prefer a good ripe mango. Lychee have nice flavor but the texture is icky.
Totally agree about the cooked strawberries. Also don't like them once they've been frozen, so no strawberry ice cream, preserves, yogurt, etc. Despise anything that is strawberry "flavored" (candy, gum, milk shakes, etc.). But I do actually adore them fresh!
Never tried durian fruit although it's supposed to be fabulous. Just can't seem to get past the aroma!
LoCo at 5:03PM on 12/03/07
grapefruit and papaya. i don't mind bananas plain, but i don't like them as part of a dish (especially smoothies!).
kmalladi at 5:45PM on 12/03/07
oh boy. i'm picky with fruit. i try to get better but most of the issues are acidity or texture, though some are taste. i don't care for pineapple, mango, peach, apricot, nectarine, blueberries... oh the list goes on.
lexophile at 6:38PM on 12/03/07
Again, falling under the "I won't refuse it, but I won't seek it out either" file: raspberries and any fruit with fur on it (I'm looking at you, peaches. Why can't you be more like your cousin, the nectarine?").
corycm at 6:44PM on 12/03/07
Grapefruit has never appealed. Dragonfruit's not my favorite, but I don't dislike it. I just find it neutral, tasteless. Other than that, I probably eat too much fruit . . . .
KarynMC at 7:50PM on 12/03/07
Every time I get cantelope in fruit salad I try to make myself eat it. And every time I do, I remember why I hate it so much. I cannot even describe it, but it's just nasty! Same goes to honeydew, though I can stand it a bit more. Cherries on their own are not so great either. BUT give me an apple, banana, or some berries any day!
luswim06 at 10:20PM on 12/03/07
I love fruit. I can't really think of any I don't like, and it's really a shame you don't like pineapple. It's such a treat to me. The only fruit I can think of is, sometimes papaya gets an odd vomity smell. I still eat it though. I just don't like fake fruit. Like way over cooked strawberries passed off on pancakes, or cherry pie filling that's all gelatinous and full of red dye.
FigswithBri at 10:43PM on 12/03/07
Fresh fruit: bananas and any kind of melons, from the smell to the texture to the taste - can't take it. I don't eat any cooked fruit, but I'll eat apple strudel (not apple pie though, I guess it's the pastry-to-apples ratio thing). I don't eat any dried fruit at all, although I make a great hot appetizer - apricots stuffed with veal (I guess, it's more in the "cooked fruit" category by the time it's done and the dried apricots are soaked in wine, stuffed with ground veal and cooked in the wine/thyme/brown sugar/cinnamon sauce... I can eat one or two of these and actually enjoy them. My hubby will eat a plateful:-)).
And I like to think that I am no longer a picky eater:-)
brooke29 at 11:05PM on 12/03/07
papaya.
cybercita at 11:13PM on 12/03/07
I'm not a big fan of pineapple either. I'll eat it, but it's not my preference.
Debs1 at 11:17PM on 12/03/07
Bananas, ick! Why are smoothies usually made with them? The acidity in other fruits will bother me, but I still like them.
windjunkie at 11:19PM on 12/03/07
Mango
Kiwi
paris221966 at 11:46PM on 12/03/07
Gee Willikers! I'm blown away at these responses. I assumed most foodies would at least appreciate most foods. I like nearly everything, but can't eat spicy, hot foods, due to acid reflux. I just can't imagine not liking pineapple, bananas, canteloupe, blueberries, etc. The people I most often cook for won't eat dairy, gluten or soy products, gravies or sauces, meat, anything fattening, one eats only organic raw. Gets challenging. Luckily, I now live alone, so it's not an everyday challenge.
PerkyMac at 11:48PM on 12/03/07
Bananas! I havent liked them since I was about 6 years old.
Annmarie at 12:50AM on 12/04/07
cantaloupe and pretty much all melons. Just plain don't like 'em!
sw8t at 3:31AM on 12/04/07
I've never been a big fan of pears or grapefruit, but I'll eat it if that's all there is.
Ash at 9:09AM on 12/04/07
I always wonder about people who don't like foods that once were seasonal, like melons. I know kids who hate canteloupe but who, when persuaded to try a bite of perfectly ripe August 'lope, were blown away and took in a quarter of the melon. If all I'd eaten was the out-of-season stuff, I wouldn't like tomatoes, any melon, mango, fresh pineapple - oh, how the list could go on. I'm sure that's why I haven't "gotten" fresh papaya yet; it's just really bland to me.
lemons at 10:03AM on 12/04/07
And that particularly applies to pears, I'd add, Ash.
lemons at 10:03AM on 12/04/07
I can't say that I dislike any fruit. I like some more than others, but I'm not sure I'd turn anything down.
feep at 10:14AM on 12/04/07
Emmab - I love love LOVE persimmons. But the mushy ones (hachiya, the ones that look like big orange acorns) I think are best used for cooking and baking, as in yummy persimmon pudding. For eating out of hand, I much prefer fuyu persimmons, which are firmer and look like little orange tomatoes.
CookiePie at 10:21AM on 12/04/07
I can't make myself eat blackberries, and I don't love raspberries either. Everyone thinks I am crazy. I can't eat honeydew anymore because I choked on it once and my throat burned for days.
And cooked fruit is just gross, fruit should be fresh and cool. Except lightly grilled pineapple for some reason, and if it is mashed and baked into something (applesauce, bananas) it's OK. Mainly this is about texture; I have many more texture than flavor preferences.
wellred at 10:50AM on 12/04/07
Oh there's another one. Persimmons make awesome bread and excellent fruit butter and that's about it for me. The texture is just bleck, and they're insipidly sweet to me.
LoCo at 11:32AM on 12/04/07
I like pretty much all of them.
I have always had a policy with the kids to let them pick one new thing per trip in the produce section. Sometimes what they pick is a huge hit, sometimes, eh. Once with my stepson we picked up something called cherimoya. It was bad. Really awful. But in all fairness, it may have been under or overripe since I had never even seen them let alone pick one out to consume.
Has anyone else tried this fruit? Did you like it?
coffeefrappe at 2:52PM on 12/04/07
Mango
curmudgeon at 3:31PM on 12/04/07
Blackened Bananas. The kind that sag when you pick them up.
challah at 7:48PM on 12/04/07
Several of the comments got a gasp out of me!
Pomelos are great! But only during certain times of the year...the fruit is big, and once you get all the rind off, yeah sometimes the yield is pretty small in comparison, but if you get it a good one, its sweet, tangy and so juicy you need several napkins while eating fist-sized chunks of the fruit.
And persimmons...I despise the soft Hachiya variety which are all goo and mush. But the firm, round Fuyu variety is to die for during Fall. The flesh is dense and super sweet and depending on how long you let it ripen, you can have it crisp or somewhat softer, but it never gets anywhere close to gooey as the Hachiyas...
I guess I have to say I'm not fond of dragonfruit...its pretty but I havent managed to find any that tasted good, even in Asia.
Guava, also not a big fan of the pink variety or the white variety.
And Papaya...I don't hate it, but it has a funny musty aftertaste to me.
fuuchan at 9:18PM on 12/04/07
Papaya, definitely. Reminds me of changing my baby nephew's diaper. Egad!
mynameispeaches at 10:22PM on 12/04/07
Wow, these comments are really interesting. I am happy to see some
fellow canteloupophobes in this group- I often think I'm the only one- I
couldn't even stand the smell of it on my mother's dinner plate next to
me at the table growing up. I am more tolerant now but will never like the
taste. I think there must be some kind of body chemistry that makes it
abhorrent to a number of us. Watermelon is fine though.
I once ran into an acquaintance in the upscale grocery store and she
was getting a huge bag of cherimoyas- she absolutely was obsessed with
them. I think they do have to be properly ripe to be good. I've never really
experienced a good ripe one. Suppposedly they taste like vanilla custard
and pineapple and can be eaten with a spoon when ripe.
I'm not wild about asian pears, they seem too bland to me. Love fresh
lychees and concord grapes.
To the mango haters, try getting a ripe champagne type mango or a larger one that is shaped like a kidney bean, not the reddish football ones that are more common. The kidney bean shaped ones are more stringy but have that wonderful taste that great lassi has.
healthygourmet at 12:31AM on 12/05/07
i LOVE persimmons. the gooier the better!!!
cybercita at 12:41AM on 12/05/07
This has been a fantastic thread---thanks for everyone commenting!! Love the way everyone expresses themselves :)
JEP at 6:03AM on 12/05/07
Durian!
smallblondemom at 6:38AM on 12/05/07
Red raspberries. For some reason, I find their taste cloying and annoying.
DaveFaris at 7:59AM on 12/05/07
coffeefrap - cherimoya is fantastic!!! it has a custard like texture, and it's lightly sweet. the only time i ever had one was at a farmer's market in los angeles, so it was perfectly ripe.
altosaxchica at 9:12AM on 12/05/07
I have the same distaste for papaya as some other folks who have already commented. The taste is not particularly remarkable though I have heard if you put it in some savory, spicy dishes, it's good (I have yet to try that though).
Also I cannot stand apples that have a powdery or mealy texture to them or are too soft.
PattyCho at 9:17AM on 12/05/07