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Way! I like it chilled, cut in half, and sprinkled with just a tiny bit of sugar. Delicious!

Way, and I am so glad to have found other people who hand-supreme their grapefruits. To me, very different texture & experience from cut supremes, leaking juice all over the place. I love the little vesicles popping under the teeth, and they are such cool shapes!

I couldn't subsist on only three veggies. I'd die of starvation as a vegetarian.

My top three veg would have to be tomatoes, corn and carrots, with potatoes and zucchini lurking in the wings. I know as soon as I post this comment, I will have a dozen other essential vegetables I couldn't part with. Mushrooms, olives, cauliflower, eggplant, black beans, avocado....

Three veg that could drop off the face of the earth: okra, beets, brussel sprouts. I dislike onions, but I don't mind if they are in soups, salsas or stews in small amounts. Onions are omitted from the rules, but if they weren't, I still wouldn't want to put them on my verboten list, even though I don't eat them unless they're snuck in my food.

You can't sneak okra, though. Bleh.

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@carolrsfMISSESTEXAS--I saw them at Costco up til mid-November. Of course they were almost twice the price of the Granny Smiths, but sooo worth it since they were gone within the week; whereas the Granny Smiths sat around until I made a pie and some applesauce. We just didn't want the other apples while we could get Honeycrisps. My other favorite apples are the Fujis and the Galas from Asian Markets...for some reason they are just huge and totally perfect because of the way the cases are designed...oh yeah, you have to buy them by the case (around 12-16 ginormous apples depending on the distributor).

The regular fries here are fantastic. Unfortunately, Glenview's quite a hike for us....but I'm glad to see it getting a mention! It really deserves to thrive; maybe then it'll move to larger quarters (it's TINY now). Oh, and they do foie gras sausage, too, which is fantastic.

I was challenged on "ackee" a few months ago...totally not in the dictionary.

Honeycrisps are addictive without a doubt, but I must say... they can get a little samey. The texture is always perfect, but they lack nuance. Larger rant at everyapple.tumblr.com

I have never even heard of a honeycrisp apple and I have worked in the grocery bus. for 14yrs,including the produce pt,do they go by some other name,I'm in n.c. I can't get much good in the way of apples,great cantalopes though,let me know,Pammy

I have hypertension and my BP meds prohibit the consumption of grapefruit. There are chemicals in grapefruit that interact with my meds. I do miss vodka and grapefruit juice though. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@dhorst ROTFL you just made me bust my gut laughing. I just loved it that you proved them wrong for one and then getting triple points on top of that.....You go girl.

Oh, there are so many... oddly enough, my parents never really nagged at me to eat my vegetables as a child (although vegetables were almost always present at the dinner table, usually in the form of canned peas, corn, green beans, or mixed vegetables). In fact, my parents often tried to "warn" me that I wouldn't like certain vegetables when I wanted to try them, such as mushrooms, eggplant, and spinach (all of which I immediately loved upon trying them).

I also must give special mention to brussels sprouts... I first encountered roasted brussels sprouts at a family gathering years ago, having never even seen brussels sprouts before. When I asked what they were, my father actually told me, "oh, no, you won't like those... brussels sprouts taste yucky, and they will make you sick!" I didn't try them until years later... and of course I loved them (and for the record, I have no idea where the idea came from that brussels sprouts make people sick... to this day I've never heard of such a thing, although I know that a lot of people just don't like the taste or texture, particularly when brussels sprouts are boiled to a slimy pulp).

Additionally, almost all my life I had this idea in my head that I hated goat cheese, despite having never tried it... only recently did I taste it for the first time; I tried two different varieties, and enjoyed both.

I'm sure I could come up with a much longer list, but this post is more than long enough as it is.