Sonic Youth Gossip - Fruit Survivor: Round 1

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Get rid off the tomato cause it is my least favorite.

I make a lovely pear crumble.

get rid of bananas. they are easily the most foul-tasting of all produce.

I voted for melons because the sweetness of them makes me sick.

Orange, only fruit I don't really like because of my parents only buying orange juice all of my childhood

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Originally Posted by porkmarras

I voted for melons because the sweetness of them makes me sick.

The only one of you to speak sense. I personally abhor all melons, with the exception of watermelon.

The rest of you who voted off tomatoes are blasphemers. They are quite possibly nature's most perfect food. And there is nothing more comforting than a spicy pumpkin pie with whipped cream on a brisk November night.

What is a cup of pekoe tea without lemon?

Seriously, what's wrong with you people?

Yeah, don't knock the tomato:

Tomatoes are high in nutrients. They are packed with vitamin C, potassium, fiber and vitamin A in the form of health-promoting beta-carotene, which the body converts to vitamin A.

Tomatoes are also a rich source of lycopene, a carotenoid that is a powerful antioxidant.

I've nothing against tomatoes, I love 'em. However, they're only a fruit due to a technicality (e.g. they are the ripened ovaries—together with seeds—of a flowering plant), but you wouldn't find them in the fruit section Sainsburys though, would you? So, for the purposes of this poll, they have to go.

banana and aplles are the best

re: the tomato thing. Pomadorino tomatoes are quite simply exquisite.

melon with prosciutto rules. the saltyness balances out the sweet.

how can we get rid of anything really? this poll is wack.

now the fruit i hate is... hm.. er... watery avocados. but that's a defective product, as i love avocados. let's see... red delicious apples are shit. that tough waxy skin, that bland one-dimensional flavor, that hollow spongy texture. and the 9-month radiation-issued shelf life. death i say.

Where is the papaya?!?

I say no to kiwis.

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Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест

Where is the papaya?!?

I say no to kiwis.

Where are the pineapples and lychees!? criminal!

The most disgusting fruit on this planet is no doubt the durian, but i suspect that other than alyasa not many people will be familliar with it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

The smell is so terrible that you're actually not even allowed to carry them into airplanes and hotels and such. Actually, I think they're being too soft on people with a $500 fine on carrying durians. It should be at least double that amount!

edit: on a second look it appears that you're not getting fined at all for durians... that's a shame.

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Originally Posted by pokkeherrie

edit: on a second look it appears that you're not getting fined at all for durians... that's a shame.

I saw this on Globe Trekker. I would like to smell for myself, just how awful it is.

i understand... you'd have to smell it to believe it i guess.

Writing in 1856, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace provides a much-quoted description of the flavour of the durian:
A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy.[13]

Wallace cautions that "the smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable"; more recent descriptions by westerners can be more graphic. The English novelist Anthony Burgess famously said that dining on durian is like eating vanilla custard in a latrine. Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says:
... its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.[14]

The unusual odour has prompted many people to search for an accurate description. Comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray, and used surgical swabs.[15] The wide range of descriptions for the odour of durian may have a great deal to do with the wide variability of durian odour itself. Durians from different species or clones can have significantly different aromas, and the degree of ripeness has a great effect as well.[16] In fact, three scientific analyses of the composition of durian aroma — from 1972, 1980, and 1995 — each found a different mix of volatile compounds, including many different organosulfur compounds, with no agreement on which may be primarily responsible for the distinctive odour.[17]
This strong odour can be detected half a mile away by animals, thus luring them. In addition, the fruit is extremely appetising to a variety of animals, from squirrels to mouse deer, pigs, orangutan, elephants, and even carnivorous tigers. While some of these animals eat the fruit and dispose of the seed under the parent plant, others swallow the seed with the fruit and then transport it some distance before excreting it, the seed being dispersed as the result.[18] The thorny armored covering of the fruit may have evolved because it discourages smaller animals, since larger animals are more likely to transport the seeds far from the parent tree.[19]

lemon
get it outa my sight

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... its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.

i love the smell of turpentine and also the smell of onions, but the rest i can do without for sure.

If we're allowed to go outside the scope of the poll, then I want pomegranates banned.