# Best Fruits

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fruits/726124>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 25, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fruits/726124 "2015-07-25T00:46:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fruits/726124/21 "2015-07-27T18:00:03Z")

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Living among many Amish farms, we get some really good fruit around here. Cantaloupes have been amazing. The watermelons are monstrously huge this year, but I found a smaller one that shall be cut open later today. Last week, I got a basket of peaches, and I just got back from getting another basket. The latest batch is pretty firm - they’ll be spending the next 3 days or so in a paper sack. Then I foresee a pie and perhaps a peach cake, as well as a couple of bags for the freezer.

Apples will come later in the year.

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**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fruits/726124/22 "2015-07-27T18:03:15Z")

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From the vegetable-type fruit category:  
[ul]  
[li]Avocado,[/li][li]Tomato,[/li][li]Squash/zucchini,[/li][li]Bell peppers,[/li][/ul]

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**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fruits/726124/23 "2015-07-27T20:57:48Z")

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Egremont Russet apples, I believe other varieties exist but honestly, why bother?

Strawberries and cherries sun-warmed and fresh picked from the nearby farms here in the garden of England.

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**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fruits/726124/24 "2015-07-28T06:18:50Z")

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If you ever get the chance please try Japanese seedless pione grapes. They are the sweetest fruit I’ve ever had in my life.

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fruits/726124/25 "2015-07-28T06:27:19Z")

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> [@hogarth](#):
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> If they were free, I’d eat mangosteens every day.

Yngwie approves of this message. He eats them _really_ fastly. Like, 64th portions at a time.

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