What is Your Favorite Yummy Fruit?

[PaleoPhil]

Mine is wild blueberries. Those are only available a couple months out of the year. When they're not available then my favorite is organic blackberries.

[TylerDurden]

The exact same. I also like dates a lot but avoid them as I seem unable to buy truly raw, unprocessed/non-steamed dates. If I eat substandard dates, I start getting a weird dark mucus/gunk coming from my eyes for a day or two afterwards, which makes me look like I have makeup/eye-shadow on my face.

[miles]

Probably fruits de mer.

[kurite]

Pomegranetes. I also like dates, luckily I have found a source that is only sun dried on the tree with no further processing.

[Sully]

The wild plums and berrries I get have extremly good flavor.
I am not very picky when it comes to fruit. Although I like fruit with a distinct flavor, not just a low quality sugar bomb (seedless black grapes, unorganic bananas). Concord over seedless grapes for sure.

stone fruits: ripe fully red wild plums
berries: wild black raspberries
melons: honeydew
cirtrus: had kumquat for the first time, amzing, way better than any other sitrus for me
grapes: concord
apples: very ripe granny smith,

let's not forget durian, i rather not get it now though, just ebcause it's shipped all the way here from thailand,
actually, the only thing taht sounds apetizing now is something semi sweet, all i had yesterday was meat and fat, perhaps that's why

[Nation]

mangos

[Hannah]

raspberries. I love the texture. THey are so velvety and squishy, I just roll them around in my mouth before swallowing.

[PaleoPhil]

The wild plums and berrries I get have extremly good flavor.

In what sort of habitat do you tend to find wild plums (cherry plums, right?) in your area?

let's not forget durian, i rather not get it now though, just ebcause it's shipped all the way here from thailand,
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Yes, given that so many people seem to adore this fruit, I decided it best not to tempt myself by trying it, as I also don't want to get into the habit of having fruits shipped to me from the other side of the planet.

[kurite]

In what sort of habitat do you tend to find wild plums (cherry plums, right?) in your area?
Yes, given that so many people seem to adore this fruit, I decided it best not to tempt myself by trying it, as I also don't want to get into the habit of having fruits shipped to me from the other side of the planet.

Durian is either a love it or hate it fruit. I hate it, tastes like rotting onions to me.

[goodsamaritan]

Durians, Mangos, Melons, Lanzones
But the more common ones we can get are papaya, watermelon these aren't favorites, they're staples.

[PaleoPhil]

Durian is either a love it or hate it fruit. I hate it, tastes like rotting onions to me.

Andrew Zimmern said the same thing and some Youtube posters went ballistic over it--like it's blasphemy to say anything negative about durian or something--even though Zimmern is clearly not a fussy person and likely has eaten many foods that they would never dare try. Some claimed that only overripe durian tastes like that, but others said that it tastes different to different people, like you say, and one video did show this--with different people having completely different reactions to the same durian fruit that they shared. Some have said that durian was an acquired taste for them, others liked it right off. I don't know why some people apparently assume it has to taste the same to everyone. My philosophy is to each his own. It doesn't bother me if some other people don't like the foods I like.

This video said that durian is very expensive and people have even killed over it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq-Urai-nX4&feature=related. I'm going to try to avoid picking up another expensive habit, but if you know that durian is your favorite fruit then by all means give it a shout out, of course, and I'll try to resist temptation.

[Dima]

Durian!


Although mostly everyone I know won't come near it. 

[laterade]

I love durian, they have to be ripe though or else they suck.

They are not that expensive here like 2dollars a lbs. A good one usually costs 14 dollars.

[TylerDurden]

I must try raw durian someday! Maybe there is an oriental market somewhere!

[KD]

I must try raw durian someday! Maybe there is an oriental market somewhere!

I can't say where in town, but I remember tons of reports of Londoners eating (whole, pre-frozen probably) durian.
In the states there are a few companies air dropping it fresh, and I think people gang up to buy in bulk. As long as you get it in shell its going to be a good experience. (unless you are weird! hehe)

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my favorite fruit is mamey - like a custardy pumpkin pie that tastes nothing like raw pumpkin
I also like longans, manzano bananas, persimmons, and wild raspberries

[TylerDurden]

I can't say where in town, but I remember tons of reports of Londoners eating (whole, pre-frozen probably) durian.
In the states there are a few companies air dropping it fresh, and I think people gang up to buy in bulk. As long as you get it in shell its going to be a good experience. (unless you are weird! hehe)

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my favorite fruit is mamey - like a custardy pumpkin pie that tastes nothing like raw pumpkin
I also like longans, manzano bananas, persimmons, and wild raspberries

I loathe all raw, tropical fruit. But I will try raw durian when I next get back to London. That urban myth entices me!

[ys]

i don't like imported frozen durians.  they have very mild smell and taste and most of the time they are unripe.  the best durian i had when i was in singapore.  imported durians in the US do not come close.  i think local Thailand durian should be awesome too.

TD, i think would like it given your obsession with aged meat.  fresh ripe durian smells like rotten meat and old socks.

[Haai]

Durian is my favourite too. I have bought many from that exact same place in Kuching at the end of the vid posted by phil.
I also really like the frozen durian that is in the chinese supermarkets here, but ofcourse fresh is best.

[KD]

like anything I'm sure frozen is going to be somewhat different. I've never had a bad experience with frozen ones, although the smell is much stronger and some taste better than others. Just like anything wild and/or tree ripened will always be way different than greenhoused , unripe, and sprayed. I've had multiple jakfruits that I have snagged from the tree or had ripened themselves and fell to the ground, and I can't say the ones I got in markets were drastically worse as to make the experience not worthwhile. Jakfruit being far less exciting than durian anyway, as it is not like eating some pungent sweaty alien baby.

[PaleoPhil]

I love durian, they have to be ripe though or else they suck.

They are not that expensive here like 2dollars a lbs. A good one usually costs 14 dollars.

WOW! Where's that? Southern California? I've never even seen a durian here in New England.

... as it is not like eating some pungent sweaty alien baby.

LOL, good one!

[laterade]

WOW! Where's that? Southern California? I've never even seen a durian here in New England.

I am in Arizona, I would be shocked if you could not find one in just about any oriental market.

[PaleoPhil]

Well, I haven't seen it in the two tiny east Asian markets in my area. I definitely know that it's not in one of them, which has hardly any fresh food (they have mostly packaged stuff), but next time I'm at the better one I'll ask them to make sure. There's also an Indian market that I might check out some day.

I've noticed that most Americans who talk about durian a lot live in California, Arizona and other areas in the southwest. There's apparently a lot more of it in that region than here. When I ask people about it here they don't even know what I'm talking about. Even a friend of mine from Jamaica didn't know what it was, and I believe it does grow there, though perhaps it's not widely eaten there.

The way people rave about it endlessly on the Internet and given my difficulties when eating too much fruit, I'm a tad concerned that I might become "hooked" on it (for lack of a better term), but seeing as it's hard to come by, maybe there won't be enough temptation for that to be a problem, and I do tend to have pretty decent discipline. One thing I like about berries is that it's easy to take and eat small portions and control how much I eat, since they're so tiny.

I've been keeping my eye out for durians for many months now. The minute I spot one, I'll report it.

[laterade]

Well, I haven't seen it in the two tiny east Asian markets in my area. I definitely know that it's not in one of them, which has hardly any fresh food (they have mostly packaged stuff), but next time I'm at the better one I'll ask them to make sure. There's also an Indian market that I might check out some day.

I've noticed that most Americans who talk about durian a lot live in California, Arizona and other areas in the southwest. There's apparently a lot more of it in that region than here. When I ask people about it here they don't even know what I'm talking about. Even a friend of mine from Jamaica didn't know what it was, and I believe it does grow there, though perhaps it's not widely eaten there.

The way people rave about it endlessly on the Internet and given my difficulties when eating too much fruit, I'm a tad concerned that I might become "hooked" on it (for lack of a better term), but seeing as it's hard to come by, maybe there won't be enough temptation for that to be a problem, and I do tend to have pretty decent discipline. One thing I like about berries is that it's easy to take and eat small portions and control how much I eat, since they're so tiny.

I've been keeping my eye out for durians for many months now. The minute I spot one, I'll report it.

They keep the durian somewhat hidden in the shop I get it from. I always get crazy looks when I am walking through the store with one. They always ask if I like it and then start rambling off some quick stuff to their friend. Probably talking shit LOL

You might over consume it at once when you get it if you like it. I dug right in, ate almost all of it, and ended up with some mean gas.

[goodsamaritan]

This video said that durian is very expensive and people have even killed over it...

When my 2nd son was 3, we were having a durian snack and left with a few servings, we were careful to apportion fairly amongst 3 children.  My 2nd son at 3 felt he didn't get a fair cut, he went into a blind rage, he smashed all the durian out the table and went on a long tantrum on the floor.

I caught that on video and gave him a whacking.  Must look for that video.

Amazing power of the durian when emotions are uncontrollable, like in a little boy.

(this boy on the left, my current avatar.)

[KD]

You can find Durian in Chinatown in Boston and New York