Sour sour sour sour EEEUUGH. I normally really oranges but whatever has happened to them this year has been deeply unpleasant. I ended up putting some sugar on them (crazy) because it was too much for me and I didn't want them to go to waste. I hope next year the oranges are sweet again.
Blew my mind. These are new to my local grocery shops! Exciting! I think bravo apples are still the peak apple, but WOW these were good. Sweeter, crunchier, but less juicy and a little bit pink lady. Better than any other normal apple I've tried.
These came from the same asian grocery as the starfruit. I like apples, but not how they make my tummy feel. Rubygolds are big massive red apples that bruise really easily and are sweet-sour. Like, they taste distinctly sweet, but also feel sour. I like them as much as any other red apple, but the novelty of size makes them just a little more appealing.
Found starfruit at the asian grocery shop near me! There weren't many ripes ones, so it was still half green. It's such a fun shape and looks so pretty on a plate, but i LOVE biting into it kind of feels like eating floral foam. Unique texture that I don't think exists in many other fruits. It tastes sort of like Japanese melon flavoured candy does, which I am neutral about.
I like raspberries. They're nicer to eat raw than blackberries are, and cook into sweetie things well. I think it is sad how much it costs to buy them fresh, so not worth it outside of summer. A bag of frozen rasberries never goes astray though! I used a bunch of raspberries in a cake recently and it came out sooo well. Good berry, and berries are good by default.
There is not enough fruit per fruit. Passionfruit is nice. It is not too sour, but it still feels tropical and nice. The seeds are fun to crunch, and they're relatively cheap here. I like passionfruit a LOT as a flavour. Passonfruit sorbet, or candy, or as a cake filling. MM YUM. Eating the fruit is always a little bit bad. There is not enough passionfruit in a passionfruit, they feel kind of snotty, and scraping the last of the yellow out is near impossible. Not my favourite, but I like them sometimes.
I enjoy strawberries quite a lot. They're one of my top berries. I think they go well with almost any flavour, in any baked good, and in ice cream. So versatile! I had these ones with some frozen yoghurt, for instance. My complaints with strawberries are almost all about how I buy them. They cost too much, they get gross too fast, and when one gets even a little bit gross, they all turn gross five minutes later. They are kind of unpredictable, and I can not guess whether I will have lovely sweet berry, or white-inside sour berry as consistently as I would like. I wish you could look in a big box and pick out your favourites like you can with mushrooms. I should start buying them straight from the farms.
I am not the biggest apple eater because they do make me a little sick, but these are soooo worth the tummy ache. They're darker and redder and crunchier and jucier than any other apple I've has. They're sweet, but still distinctly apple. Incredible crunch sound. They don't do that gross powdery feeling. Everything I said about the royal gala but even nicer. YUM.
Blackberries were one of my top 3 fruits for a while, but I have changed my mind. I like berries generally for their picky-bits-ness, so that is a blackberry win. I tend to like fruits that are dark in colour, not sure why. Blackberries are a little more sour than I normally like, but I love them baked into things or as a compote. Blackberry crumble mmmmmmngfhm. They are a little expensive to buy fresh, but frozen for baking is so worth it.
My favourite fruit!!! I love pomegranate!! I love getting out all of the seeds, it's so fun. I think for many people this would be annoying, but I thoroughly enjoy it. They are perfect for throwing in a bowl and picking at all day, or for putting in a snack box. I have frozen them before and eaten them cold and it was not my favourite, I think grapes are better for that, but it is also kind of nice. I like that they pop when you crunch them, and I like how they taste, and I like them as juice. The perfect fruit. Fuck yeah.
After a month or two of alternating between apples and grapes, I got very excited to see nice plums in the grocery shop. I was also very quickly disappointed to find out that I bought the wrong kind! Bit into one expecting red flesh and was so sad to see orange. Still good and sweet and sour. No yuck bits. Many antioxidants. Decent fruit, but I wish they were red.
I think I'm allergic to apples. I like them anyway. Eating an apple while you walk through the city feels like the inverse of smoking a cigarette. Two sides of same coin. Very good. I can throw it in my bag loose and let it get beaten up and it will still be okay come apple time. Royal Galas are one of the better apple varieties, but not my favourite. They don't do the bad powdery feeling, they're not over sour. Cut them into slices! I can buy them all through the year for cheap. Good fruit, but if I eat them on an empty stomach I get SUPER nauseous for ages.
I like watermelon, but I think it takes too much work to get through. I do not drive, so it means lugging a kilo of fruit home on the bus, then cutting it, then having way too much leftover. Unweidly fruit. I like eating it though! Yum as fuck and I like how it is crunchy and then disintigrates. Kind of tastes like nothing, but that's okay. Not worth the hassle for me, but if watermelon is presented to me I will eat it and enjoy it.
I love cherries. MMMMMM YUM. Fun sized and good for me. I love grabbing a fistful of them from the bag and eating them over a piece of paper towel and spitting out the seeds. So fun so tasty. A little sour, sweet, not mushy, RED. You eat too many and you feel a little sick, but that's okay because it means you keep more cherries for later. They're hard to find outside of summer here, and really expensive when you do, so I eat an absurd amount of them December to February. One of the best fruits.
Somehow this was my first fruit of the year?? No fruit on new year's day? Very yum. Ate a BIG pile of them with my lunch. Very solid fruit. Here, they are easy to find all year round, but they are the most expensive of the big grape 3. Also the best of the big grape 3, so. Hm. Sweet and crunchy and lovely. I do have to sift through for the yucky wrinkley ones, but that is okay. They have a very low nutrition:calorie ratio, as all grapes do. Very solid fruit, nothing special, but one that I eat again and again. Middle of the road 3 star.