r/AskReddit • u/Kaia_kitty • 22d ago
What is one fruit that no one would miss if it disappeared?
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u/Befub14435 22d ago
Kiwano. Just put lemon on your cucumber
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u/DrTokinkoff 22d ago edited 22d ago
I will say that they are very interesting fruit (they can survive a year off the vine before they begin to rot), the innards look like green jello. But as for taste, it sucks.
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u/Aol_awaymessage 22d ago
Red Delicious Apples. We didn’t know any better growing up because it was that or granny apple. Red delicious sucks.
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u/appleparkfive 22d ago
The story of them makes so much sense as to why they're gross.
Once upon a time, they were supposedly amazing and delicious. But they kept trying to change it, and making it more red. Then the quality took a massive dive.
I love how there's so many apple varieties in stores now. So many choices. And they're all better than the modern Red Delicious apple.
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u/dieinafirenazi 22d ago
They wanted them red and shelf stable. They're a very, very shelf stable apple. They stay the same level of flavorless and mealy for months and months.
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u/JustaRandomOldGuy 22d ago
Like store bought tomatoes. Designed to be thrown into a big truck, bounced around and last a long time. That's why they look and taste like a damp sponge.
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u/CaptHorney_Two 21d ago
For the longest time I thought I just hated tomatoes, but it turned out I just hated grocery store tomatoes.
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u/mckleeve 21d ago
"There's only two things money can't buy. True love and homegrown tomatoes." Guy Clark
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u/Spirited_Island-75 22d ago
nerd glasses on
There are over seven thousand kinds of apples. Most of them are heirloom varieties. Apples, in addition to many other fruits, as well as plants in the Rose family (oh yeah, apples are pretty closely related to roses) are extremely heterozygous, which means they have a TON of genetic information that can be all recombined to make new apple varieties. Think of it as, if a human has two parents' worth of genetic information, an apple has four. (It's not 4n though, that's a different thing.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious/379892/
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u/natalielaurae 22d ago
That’s why those nasty ass Japanese beetles have been snacking on both my rose bushes and apple trees! Thank you for your wealth of knowledge!
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u/WhitteyLeetNsweet 22d ago
Honey crisp apples ftw
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u/ZMaiden 22d ago
If you like honey crisp try cosmic crisp.
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u/Tribblehappy 21d ago
I was disappointed in cosmic crisp. Tasted good, but cost way more. Not sure they were that much noticeably better to justify the cost.
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u/thecwestions 21d ago
How about an Envy?
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u/Wernzy 21d ago
Envy is by far the best apple variety I've ever had. Nothing else even comes close.
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u/sirdrumalot 22d ago
Reading your comment made me realize that I’ve noticed the same trend in strawberries. They seem to be getting bigger and more bright red, but less flavorful.
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u/BriaCass 21d ago
They used to be my favorite fruit before they started dying all of them bright red. I could never tell if what i was buying was gonna be sweet or not, and I always end up buying sour ones. Had to stop wasting money on them altogether ):
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u/Swedish-Butt-Whistle 22d ago
Glad to know it’s not just my imagination! I distinctly remember them being crispier when I was a kid in the 80’s, and noticed it lost that by the 90’s. When I got older I thought I had been misremembering it.
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u/SilentMunch 22d ago edited 21d ago
Just discovered Liberty a couple years ago. They're so much better than my previous favorite SweeTango, which itself replaced Honeycrisp.
Apparently the University of Minnesota is super into developing new varieties. I'm really lucky to live nearby!
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u/ribnabb 22d ago
Original red delicious have vertical stripes and are good. Solid red are mealy and nasty.
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u/damnyoutuesday 22d ago
Honey crisp for everyday
Granny smith for pies and such
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u/LaylaDusty 22d ago
I started eating Granny Smith apples when I was on a medication that dried up my mouth. The tartness and juiciness was perfect to jump start my salivary glands.
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u/basedlandchad14 22d ago
Pink Lady is my go to
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u/ThievingRock 22d ago
Honey crisp ftw.
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u/Lazy_Bird_Dog 22d ago
I raise you, Carmel apple.
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u/greensickpuppy89 22d ago
Came across jazz apples recently. My gosh the crunch and juicy out of those mrfrs is AMAZING!
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u/ThievingRock 22d ago edited 22d ago
Is that a variety of apple, or do you mean the treat you get at fairs? I strongly dislike caramel apples. They're basically impossible to eat and they don't taste anywhere near good enough to be worth the effort. Candy apples are the only acceptable form of dipped-and-sticked apple.
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u/shibuyabooyah 22d ago
Fuji Apples are the best imo
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u/Respect4All_512 22d ago
Galas are good too, also pink ladies. I hope I don't react to them when I'm done with my IBS elimination diet.
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u/tylergenis 22d ago
Hobeycrisps are better then Fuji by themselves, but I think a Fuji compliments peanutbutter a bit better
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u/2ndSnack 22d ago
Am I weird? I love me a tart granny smith.
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u/smushy_face 22d ago
Nah you're only weird if you like Red Delicious. Granny Smith are great, albeit I personally prefer a slightly sweeter variety.
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u/EvMund 21d ago
i fucking love granny smiths. but I also occasionally just straight up eat lemons. so I may not be a good example
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u/ofalltheshitiveseen 22d ago edited 22d ago
Fruit Flys flies. They taste like ass and whoever made them a fruit can burn in every level of hell.
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u/DunkenRage 22d ago
Fruit flies
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u/A_Salty_Cellist 22d ago
No it doesn't
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u/abhorrent_pantheon 22d ago
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Saw it on a talk about Drosophila (fruit fly used in research), took me far too long.
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u/OneGoodRib 21d ago
Fun tip: If you have fruit flies, take a smallish container of some sort (if you have something a little bigger than a shot glass, that's great, but any kind of bowl or cup is fine). Pour some apple cider vinegar in it. Just 1/4 to 1/2 inch high in the container. You can also due white vinegar with some kind of fruit juice mixed it, but the apple cider vinegar works best. Put plastic/saran/cling wrap over the top of the container. Stab some holes into the wrap. Leave the container wherever you're finding the majority of the fruit flies. The fruit flies are attracted to the scent of fruit and REALLY attracted to the vinegar, they crawl in through the holes and usually can't get back out, so eventually they die in the container. Even better if they drown in the vinegar.
You can also mix a tiny bit of dish soap into the vinegar to reduce the smell, I don't find that the soap kills more flies than just the pure vinegar.
You may have to empty the container and start a new one every couple days if your fruit fly problem is bad.
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u/CatOfGrey 22d ago
Gotta tell ya. I love the idea of Dragonfruit. But then I tasted one. It's was like one of those seltzers that have flavors that are jokes like "Passed by a Cherry tree" and "Citrus-free Lemon Lime".
So now, I refer to it as the "Instagram Fruit" because it is cool-looking, inside and out. It's like Instagram: all appearance, but no real substance.
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u/Chi_Law 22d ago
I had some dragonfruit that actually tasted like something at a hotel buffet in Taiwan. It still wasn't as good as a top-notch piece of an S-tier fruit like mangoes or peaches, but it made me think "Okay, I get why people cultivate this."
It's hard to explain the flavor, other than imagine one of the crappy dragonfruit from a US chain grocery store, but a little sweeter, not so dry, and the flavor more concentrated.
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u/Detronyx 22d ago
Cherimoya is some real S-tier fruit! Hot damn THAT should be named the king of fruits. Durian can fuck off.
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u/CallMeJakeyBoy 22d ago
Yeh I lived in China for a few years and the dragonfruit we had over there were really good, the dragonfruit here at home are not so good
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u/ALasagnaForOne 22d ago
If you eat them fresh and in their country of origin, they have flavor. I’ve eaten them fresh in SE Asia and imported in the States and they are like two completely different flavors. Same with papaya.
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u/CypripediumGuttatum 22d ago
They taste like nothing because they are shipped half ripened in cold storage to supermarkets. I've had them picked fresh from the orchard and they are delicious!
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MAUSE 22d ago
Did you try a white dragonfruit or a pink one? In my experience the pink ones are legitimately flavorful whereas the white ones are pointless.
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u/ax_colleen 22d ago
Are you sure you grabbed a good kind of dragon fruit? Just like apples there are different qualities. The dragon fruits I have tasted are sweet an absolutely delicious.
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u/Mxnmnm 22d ago
Noni, I haven’t had it, but the things I have heard make me think that nobody would miss it if it was gone. The only people who might miss it would be a few health nuts who think it’s good for them (idk if it is, but I do know it is not good for your tastebuds), but I feel like they could be ignored.
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u/QuickFreezeWyoming 22d ago
Horse apples. I hate them because I’m scared of them
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u/gridzbispudvetch 22d ago
are these the same as crabapples
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u/showmeyourbirds 22d ago
Nope. Some people call them monkey balls? They're from the Osage orange tree.
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u/DrTokinkoff 22d ago
From bois d’arc trees? You aren’t suppose to eat those. They are for throwing at your siblings.
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u/Physical_Ad_5320 21d ago
dragon fruit,,, its like eating something but you have covid :/
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u/follow_your_lines 22d ago
Red Delicious Apples (I know it's not an entire fruit but feel free to fight me on this)
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u/Notmymanderella 22d ago
I laughed when someone called red delicious apples 2 truths and lie. It fits!
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u/doublestitch 22d ago
The history of the red delicious apple has something to do with why they're so widespread.
tl;dr The original 1894 version really was delicious. Afterward selective breeders modified the variety, selecting for marketable traits such as visual appearance, transportibility, and shelf life. The flavor was lost in the process.
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u/Subwaypossum 22d ago
Same thing happened unfortunately to the brand of tomatoes commonly sold in grocery stores.
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u/Accomplished_Hat_576 22d ago
Tomatoes are coming back too!
My local food desert grocery store had some Cherokee purple.
About a hundred times better than the mass produced shit.
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u/NathanGa 22d ago
A few years ago we had Cherokee purple growing in the garden, along with Black Krim and a couple of others. At the end of the garden was a tiny basil plant that grew to be shoulder-high by July 4.
Then a storm came through with 80 MPH winds and destroyed all of it. But I'll never forget those five tomatoes that we had before the storm, or those couple of basil leaves the size of my hand.
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u/GRAHAMPUBA 22d ago
i like how they are the only apple served at most convenience stores and gas stations, like they want to convince you that fresh fruit is terrible and you should just buy their processed packaged food.
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u/TheJadedSF 22d ago
Complete opposite is the Golden Delicious, which IMO is THE perfect apple 🤌
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u/Befub14435 22d ago
They are so gross and grainy. I always wonder who actually likes them. Cameo apples all the way
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u/Brian_D1 22d ago
Yeah, I felt like I was lied to the first time I tried one. "Delicious" my ass!
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u/No-Bewt 22d ago
I hate apples where the skin is like puncturing and then chewing on plastic. Give me a Gala apple any day.
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u/Lumpy_Onion3545 22d ago
Apples were originally russet-skinned (with a mildly rough skin like a cross between a potato and a pear). The waxy-skin was bred into most apples. I personaly find that russet-skinned apples are waaay more delicious than that plastic-tasting wax skin.
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u/RaccKing21 22d ago
Most people don't pick them correctly. I usually look for an almost hollow sound when tapped, and the apples are firm, with a tiny bit of give.
They are quite juicy, sweet and crisp when picked correctly.
When picked incorrectly, they are almost like sweetened flour.
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u/smushy_face 22d ago
Yeah, but every other variety, you don't have to worry about picking a bad one.
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u/Antnee83 22d ago
Kids like them for some weird ass reason- I was one of them.
Then I grew the fuck up and started enjoying proper apples. Pink Lady Gang!
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u/appleparkfive 22d ago
They were all we had as kids, usually! Then we suddenly got all sorts of varieties in every store
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u/Accomplished_Hat_576 22d ago
I thought I didn't like apples growing up.
Turns out red delicious is just shit
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u/Scoob1978 22d ago
I always saw them as decoration fruit people put on the kitchen table but never eat. It tastes like Styrofoam but has a nice color.
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u/Fred_Blogs_2020 22d ago
A proper Cox’s Pippin is an apple of joy but really hard to find because they don’t store/travel well
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u/appleparkfive 22d ago
The story of it is so crazy. It really WAS a good apple at first. But then they tried making it more and more red. It just got worst over the years.
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u/PurpleDrosophila 22d ago
Ugh, I detest Red Delicious apples. They taste like plastic and disappointment.
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u/Billbapaparazzi 22d ago
all fruits would be missed :(
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u/jeffh4 22d ago
Congratulations for signing up to the Daily Overripe Durian Fruit Club!
You can expect your first delivery within a week and your postal delivery employee to be homicidal the following week!
Enjoy!
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u/Kilroy5188 22d ago
Andy Dick
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u/Surfing_Ninjas 21d ago
He's like Roger the Alien from American Dad if you stripped away any of the entertaining aspects of his personality.
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u/OneGoodRib 21d ago
I liked a few months ago (or was it years?) when someone punched Andy Dick at a bar and everyone asked if it was Jon Lovitz.
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u/freshblood96 22d ago
Durians. Fucking durians.
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u/CatOfGrey 22d ago
I have a Singaporean co-worker. I recently moved to an Asian area, and I asked him "So, should I bring in some Asian fruit? I've got a bunch of Asian grocery stores to check out....oh yeah, what does a Durian taste like?"
He said something like "You bring a Durian in here, we can no longer be friends...you are dead to me." My office manager (Hong Kong) says "Yeah, what he said!"
I still don't know what it tastes like, but I heed the warning.
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u/Automatic-Concert-62 22d ago
It smells like hot old garbage, it has the texture of pudding and hair, and it tastes like chicken and garlic. There, I saved you your job.
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u/unironic-socialist 21d ago
it tastes nice but smells bad. if you cant get past the smell you wont like it, most young children hate it
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u/san_serifs 21d ago
Durian tastes like metallic grilled onions and what I imagine a dirty gym sock tastes like.
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u/CedarWolf 22d ago
It tastes alright, but the scent is rather piquant and offensive to some.
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u/Rocket_Puppy 22d ago
It literally smells like a hot dumpster behind a fast food chain, and it is pretty powerful and lingering.
You do not open one indoors unless you wanna smell stank garbage for several days.
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u/hlkaMI_sAmA 22d ago
Really? To me it smells sweet, while thick and refreshing at the same time.
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u/Rocket_Puppy 22d ago
Some people smell sweetness. Like an incredibly thick and fragrant cantaloupe mixed with that pre body odor musky but pleasant smell people have.
Most people smell wet socks, rotten onions, and sewage.
The few times I've encountered it pre-cut and packaged the smell changed into a powerful ammonia and earthy smell. Like cat piss and rotten potatoes
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u/APeacefulWarrior 21d ago
Yeah, I'm convinced that Durian loving/hating is one of those genetic things, like cilantro. There's just too much variation in how people perceive it.
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u/CleverName4269 22d ago
Smell awful, tastes great. You may be able to find Durian bubble tea. Safest way to find out if you like it.
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u/dogs_in_fogs 21d ago
I love durian, and as a Singaporean, I’d like to disown your co-worker
Unless it was about bringing it into a room with AC. That smell clings for at least a week, especially in an air-conditioned space. There’s a reason why taxi drivers ban them from their cars. Personally, I like the smell, but I don’t think I could inflict that on unsuspecting colleagues and expect to keep my relationships
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u/shashfr0096 22d ago
An entire culture of people from South East Asia would miss them. Durian is love.
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u/undeuxtroiscatsank6 21d ago
I love durian!!! I salivate at the smell of them and the texture is like custard.
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u/SappySoulTaker 22d ago
I'd miss Durians because then id have to work really hard to get god tier health food in BOTW.
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u/all4hurricanes 22d ago
Durians are my favorite (conceptual) fruit. They're just badass
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u/virgilreality 22d ago
Someone brought into work Durian-flavored something-or-other. Not even actual Durian.
The whole floor smelled like someone farted through a sweaty sock.
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u/distant-girl 22d ago
Same. Accidentally tasted it and it tasted like the smell of a subway armpit.
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u/hotdamnitsamoose 22d ago
NAHHH TAKE THAT BACK DURIANS ARE FUCKIN AMAZING
then again I'm Indonesian so I might be biased
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u/michaelochurch 22d ago
Durian is delicious, but the smell takes some getting used to. It's better if you know what it is.
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u/Ink_box 21d ago
Over a billion people would strongly disagree with you. It's an incredibly popular fruit in East/Southeast Asia
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u/Ghostytoastboast 22d ago
Used to work at a gelato shop. We would have to cover the durian flavour because it stunk up the place like ammonia/piss. I’ll never try it thanks to that.
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u/[deleted] 22d ago
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u/dieinafirenazi 22d ago
Didn't you hear? He's ex-gay now.
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u/schu2470 22d ago
What? I stopped paying attention a few years ago. What's happened? Last I heard he was calling Trump "Daddy" in preparation for the 2016 election.
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u/dieinafirenazi 22d ago
Well his speaking career took a big hit after he defended priests molesting young boys. And he got de-platformed by several social media companies. So I think he just was trying to put on a fresh look and start a new grift, he's doing fundraisers for a conversion therapy clinic.
what. an. asshole.
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u/Theo2018 22d ago
Probably dragon fruit,i either got a low quality one,or all of them are just tasteless.
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u/fuccitsjae 22d ago
Red fleshed dragon fruits are so tasty. The white ones are next to flavorless though
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u/nuttynutdude 22d ago
Get one from southeast Asia if you get the chance, it’s infinitely better. Fruit from the west tastes pretty bland in comparison
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u/ax_colleen 22d ago
You got a low quality one. The ones at Asian stores are absolutely superb.
What frustrates me the most is people tasting one kind of dragonfruit and they assume all kinds of dragon fruit are the same
There's Korean pear and normal pear for example. Both taste very different. There's the expensive kind which tastes really good.
Just like apples the red one sucks while the pink apple variety is good right?
Grab the sweet kind. The one I tasted is purple flesh and they're absolutely delicious. My best bet is in Asian stores.
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u/ALasagnaForOne 22d ago
Most fruit that is picked before it’s ripe, frozen, and flown halfway across the planet is going to taste bland.
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u/Snoo67390 22d ago
A dragon fruit. Looks cool, sounds cool. Totally tasteless and a waste of fucking time.
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u/smol_kaguya 21d ago
Fresh dragon fruits is so much better. If you decide to travel to South East Asia you should buy it there
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u/FuturePut5 22d ago
Quince. The amount of effort required to make it edible renders it pointless.
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u/Fadathram 22d ago
Quince is fucking awesome. You just don't eat it. Make AWESOME wine. Liquors. Hell, just chop some quince into the cup, add some honey, pour water over. Boom. Greatness achieved. Quince is fucking love, yo.
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u/omgburritos 22d ago
Papayas kind of suck
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u/chowderpouch 22d ago
I hated papaya for so long. I thought it smelled and tasted just like vomit. Then someone in Hawaii told me to squeeze fresh lemon juice over it. Boom! It becomes a totally different fruit with not vomity stuff going on. It is now my favorite fruit.
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u/Indigo_Mockingbird 22d ago
Eat a Thai green papaya salad sometime, I find them delicious
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u/Smellzlikefish 22d ago
I tried my first papaya in Hawaii and it has since become a staple of breakfast. Then I went to the mainland and tried one of the Brazilian variety and it tasted of sadness.
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u/moonieforlife 22d ago
Somehow I made it to my thirties without actually trying a ripe papaya and it was the grossest thing I had ever put in my mouth. It tasted skunky and rotten. My husband tried the same fruit and thought it was fine. We read somewhere that some people are predisposed to not like papaya similar to how some people think cilantro tastes like soap.
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u/averagebutgood 22d ago
The smell of papaya always makes me gag. I’m sure it tastes good, but the smell is a big obstacle for me
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u/Shy_raspberry 22d ago
My friend says the after taste of papaya it’s like when you throw up a little bit in your mouth lol
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u/Krabbi 22d ago
Durian. Please eliminate this fruit. Some lady sat beside me on a flight from Shanghai to SF and picked at this fruit off and on for the entirety of the flight. Had it in a container. Kept opening a closing it.
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u/thiosk 22d ago
These adorable little white berries are the fruit of poison ivy