On fruit

[macmoyer]

The latest xkcd captures nicely my personal struggle with fruit. I love fruit, but often it's a pain in the ass.
I would quibble with a lot of the positions on this chart (I think his division of apples into green, just above the zero-point on the tasty axis, and red, just below it, is accurate for two varieties of apple, the Granny Smith and the

Comments

[biomekanic]

re face punching viruses:
Great! Now you tell! Damn you, man! Damn you!

Mine is just scratching at my throat.

re Fruit:
I disagreed with XKCD in a number of regards, lemon to me being high up on the tasty end of things. Cherries farther over in the difficult end ( i.e. having to watch closely for rotten spots and dispossing of seeds ), watermelon, etc.

Both of my anthro profs in college had lived in Latin America and refused to eat the domestically available banana's, they considered them travisties.

As a point of interest, one of the big online aquarium plant dealers also sells tropical fruit trees. Among them a variety of Chinese banana that will grow in Eugene.

Link provided if you're interested.

[macmoyer]

Link away! I don't know if I'll follow through, but I'm curious. I've got a little more elevation than Eugene, and we get just a little more frost. According to my Western Garden Book, frost is the difference between a fruiting banana and an ornamental banana.
The face-punching virus gave me no warning. No scratchy throat, no icky feeling. Just... POW! Right in the face.

[biomekanic]

http://www.azgardens.com/bananas.php

Chinese Yellow

[ninjakitten]

I agree with you, both on the "I love fruit but sometimes it's a pain in the ass" and on the misplacement of some tasty fruit. Bananas -- very tasty, usually very easy. Apples -- granny and 'delicious' aren't, others are. Also, less easy for me, because I always cut them up. That's more work than opening a banana. And a decent orange (let alone a GOOD one) is VERY tasty. ..then again, I'm also not a big fan of peaches, so hey.

Mmm, fruit.

I wonder what a Gros Michel tastes like, compared to the Cavendish?

[macmoyer]

Boy, I enjoy a really good peach. But you don't find really good ones very often.
That reminds me... the third link in my fruit trifecta today was supposed to be How to Pick a Peach, a really nifty book about produce, when various fruits and veggies are in season, and how to choose them and store them. Joellen got it for me for X-mas... she's rad.
I wonder what a Gros Michel tastes like, compared to the Cavendish?
In my mind, I've built up the Gros Michel into the most wonderful food ever. Mmmm... forbidden banana.

[pjack]

...bananas are consumed faster than any other... because they are so easy to eat one-handed at the keyboard, I believe.

Code monkey. :)