What is your favorite fruit?

I was thinking about this the other day, and it would be a pretty tough  call for me to make.  It would sort of depend on what I was planning to do with it, bake it into a pie or something, rather than just eating it.  Living in California, there is a lot to choose from, seems like something is always in season.  Have  tangerine tree and a navel orange tree that are both pretty loaded right now, the former for eating, the latter for juice.  Freshly squozen OJ mimosas are a favorite of the wife, hence the tree. Summer gives you stone fruits, apricot, peach, nectarine, cherry, various berries, apples, pears.  They even grow kiwi fruit here.  Here is a random bit of trivia for you, Barbi Benton's mother had the first commercial kiwi fruit operation in the United States.  My parents were friends of her parents is how I happen to know that.

I think I would have to go with a peach, if I am picking it off the tree.  Not so much if I buy them in a supermarket, but okay from the fruit stand up the street.  I have an early and late peach tree out back, those late peaches, wow. 

What do y'all say, have a favorite?

Strawberries! Followed closely by bananas...

Too many choices. A good deep ruby red grapefruit is hard to beat, but dragon fruit is just awesome. Fresh kiwis though? And big black raspberries? Too hard to pick just one. 

Jackfruit 

I think pineapple, but jackfruit and kiwi come close. Unless avocado counts as fruit?

if I can give a cop out answer though, I’ll say “whatever is fresh and in season”

In reply to Toebra :

With 9 apple trees one plum one cherry one walnut it's obvious.  What variety of apple though?  
McIntosh, Harrelson, Honey Crisp,  NW Greenling, Granny Smith, Honey Gold, Red Delicious, But my favorite is the Chestnut Crab. 
ugly looking little apple.  While it might have a little bit of Red Blush it's mostly yellow and brown once fully ripened. It's not smooth either, it's fuzzy,  like licking a day old beard.   Nobody who looks at that apple wants to try it.  
But your first bite will have you gulping down more until nothing but a little core is left. It's crisp juicy sweet tart with a definite hint of cinnamon.  In no time you'll have gulped down 4-6 apples and looking for more.    But don't bring home more than you'll eat the next day. After that they start to get soft. By the 4 day you're throwing them out.  
They are an antique. Not commercially farmed.  But WOW   are they good. 

Always the oddball, I have to say that avocado is my favorite fruit. Alone with salt as an afternoon snack, with sugar as a morning snack, in guac or spread on bread that been pan fried in olive oil... yum. 
 

I also eat tons of other fruit and love wild blackberries off the vine, fresh peaches are always a favorite. Tomatoes are a constant staple when they're in season. 
 

We planted a couple peach trees at our old house and they produced the most amazing peaches I've ever had. The better of the two got broken in a derecho storm and things went downhill from there. I still dream of those peaches from time to time. 

Apple pie

Apples, any really fresh citrus (even limes. I love limes) a good green grapes...man there's so many. 

Raspberries from our garden or from wid patches in northern Wisconsin. The 'fun' part is needing a firearm incase you kick up a back bear momma and her cubs! No bears in our yard!

Next would cherry or grape tomatoes from our garden.

I'm a close tie between Fresh Georgia Peaches and Dragon Fruit.  

Grapes

Tomatoes by far. Fresh cherries are in second place.

Fresh peaches are hard to beat.  Sad thing is, it's impossible to get decent produce, particularly fruits, in a grocery store.  Family favorites from the grocery would be strawberries, blueberries, and cantelope.

Tomatoes

mr2s2000elise said:

Jackfruit 

Have both red and yellow trees. What a pita they are to cut up/prep, you need a hazmat suit.

This may sound corny, but fruits were a huge deal in the area of Michigan where I grew up.  Each town had a festival when the major crop for the area came into season.  My home town had the Apple Festival, nearby Coloma had the peach festival, South Haven had a blueberry festival, etc.  I like them all.

The most memorable fruit I've tried though was a Paw Paw found growing wild.

mtn said:

I think pineapple, but jackfruit and kiwi come close. Unless avocado counts as fruit?

 

if I can give a cop out answer though, I’ll say “whatever is fresh and in season”

We eat a​​​​​​ lot of fruit. I eat an apple with some unsalted mixed nuts for lunch 6 days out of 7. Florida isn't Apple country so I have to get whatever's in the store. My first choice is fuji, although the honey crisps were on sale recently and are very good also.

My wife and I have had this conversation more than once, and have always concluded with, "whatever is in season."

My most memorable experience with eating fruit was buying some strawberries right next to the strawberry field in a layby in northern England. They were shockingly good. I got confused while trying to translate Dollars to pounds in my head, and bought about six times as many as I had intended. That turned out to be incredibly lucky.

Finally, a bit of fun trivia about avocados. Like any other plant, the seeds have to be dispersed. Before humans came along to propagate them, the only animal that was large enough to eat a whole avocado and defecate the seeds was the giant ground sloth. 

Luckily, the advent of agriculture coincided with the extinction of those animals.

Oranges. Whole, juiced, freeze dried, mixed with chocolate, any way I can get it.

We planted a loquat tree and they're (the fruit) pretty great

Slippery said:

mr2s2000elise said:

Jackfruit 

Have both red and yellow trees. What a pita they are to cut up/prep, you need a hazmat suit.

They are difficult. Only fruit nothing goes to waste. I had a 17lb one last year 

the seeds can be eaten so many ways. We dry them in the sun, then put them on the stove. Eat like popcorn while watching a movie 

To me, whatever grows the best.

I've got a nice sized garden of raspberries and black berries in my back yard and LOVE them because they grow so well.  Tried blueberries (which I adore)- wrong soil.  Have grapes- animals get to them before me.  Have a plumb and peach tree- both have issues.  

I manage to grow some great tomatoes every year, too.

The brambles I get are absolutely amazing in taste.

So my conclusion is that the best fruit is the one that grows the best of the best in your growing area.  Whatever it is, you will love it so much that it will quickly become your favorite.

Rambutan is the only fruit I’ve tasted that didn’t completely disgust me. But otherwise I don’t eat fruit in any form. Well, other than artificial flavors. 

Floating Doc said:

My most memorable experience with eating fruit was buying some strawberries right next to the strawberry field in a layby in northern England. They were shockingly good. I got confused while trying to translate Dollars to pounds in my head, and bought about six times as many as I had intended. That turned out to be incredibly lucky.

When I was a kid (6-7) we had a strawberry patch in the back yard. I would frequently steal the sugar bowl off the table and go sit in the middle of that patch and eat strawberries straight off the bush. It doesn't get much better than that. 

Apple pie. 

Banana on cereal. 

Blueberries on ice cream.

Orange juice.

Tomatoes on toast.

Strawberries with sugar.

Apricot jam.

Grapes in brocolli salad.

Nectarines out of hand, in season.