# Do you eat a lot of fresh fruit and berries when they are in season? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855 "2014-07-23T17:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/21 "2014-07-24T15:35:52Z")
I eat 2-3 servings of fruit a day, usually grapefruit, an apple and a banana. I’m not much into berries. I love melon (cantaloupe and water) but what’s in the stores is never ripe enough. I will only eat tomatoes that are from the farmstand or someone’s garden. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/22 "2014-07-24T15:56:04Z")
I’m really,\* really\* picky about my fruit. Disappointing fruit is the disappointingest. That said, I’m a bing and Rainier cherry fiend when they’re in season, and really good blueberries are heavenly. You can keep all your melons and stone fruits, though. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/23 "2014-07-24T16:01:48Z")
Aren’t cherries stone fruits? Yes, OP, we eat a lot if fruit when it’s in season. Tons of peaches, berries, melons and cherries in the summer, apples that we’ve picked in the fall, citrus in winter, etc. I love rotating through the seasons like that. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/24 "2014-07-24T16:10:57Z")
Watermelons are cheap here now. I’ll feast on them (and the occasional cantaloupe) for a few more weeks. I haven’t had any good tomatoes yet, and I need to find some good sweet corn, but that’s hard since this is south Georgia. Apples from the orchards in the fall are the fruit I like best. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/25 "2014-07-24T16:32:49Z")
What? Good sweet corn is ridiculously easy to find in South Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/26 "2014-07-24T16:40:19Z")
My husband eats lots of fruit year round but I am not much of a fruit eater. I’d far rather have vegetables instead. That said, I eat a ton of strawberries when they are ripe locally (last half of June) and occasionally ripe local nectarines and cherries. If they’re shipped from elsewhere I find them bland and unappealing. If I ever get my hands on black raspberries (very rare to find commercially) I can eat myself sick on them. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/27 "2014-07-24T22:32:54Z")
Kroger has their red sweet cherries for $1.99 a lb. I just got a small bag of them. First cherries I’ve had this summer. My mom just told me there’s a major peach and nectarine recall. They’ve been yanked out of all the stores. Listeria again. Geez I wish they’d get that problem fixed. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/28 "2014-07-24T22:43:16Z")
YES! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/29 "2014-07-24T22:45:13Z")
The peach recall is only at these stores nationwide. > **[More stores affected by listeria fruit recall | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/22/health/costco-fruit-recall/)** > > Listeria may have contaminated fruit sold at Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Costco, Kroger and Walmart. See the fruits being recalled due to possible listeria. > [@](#): > > If you’ve picked up fruit at Costco, Kroger or Walmart stores recently, keep reading. > > Wawona Packing Co. is voluntarily recalling peaches, nectarines, plums and pluots that were packed at its Cutler, California, warehouses between June 1 and July 12. Wawona believes the products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. > > Costco, Kroger and Walmart, which also operates Sam’s Club stores, have all posted notices about the fruit recall on their websites. So have Whole Foods Market, Trader Joe’s, Ralphs and Food 4 Less. The recall is nationwide, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/30 "2014-07-24T23:37:27Z")
**Labrador Receiver** , it has gotten better in the last two years. I even can find bi-color corn here now, but it is usually picked over ripe. I bought some excellent-looking 'maters from a roadside stand today. My hopes were dashed- they’re hard and tasteless. I did get a great cantaloupe, however. I’m heading to Indiana in a couple weeks. I shall feast upon corn and 'maters there. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/31 "2014-07-25T11:08:26Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Do you eat a lot of fruit and berries when they are in season? Oh yes. So much fruit. Even better is picking them myself - mmm, cherries. So lucky to live in a place that has everything from grapes to pomes to stone fruits. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/32 "2014-07-25T11:40:39Z")
Yes. All the seasonal berries and fruit and melons. As much as I can squeez in my fridge and then stuff in my face before the next week’s grocery run. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/33 "2014-07-25T11:51:46Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Aren’t cherries stone fruits? Maybe we could call them pebble fruits. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/34 "2014-07-25T12:42:49Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > **Labrador Receiver** , it has gotten better in the last two years. I even can find bi-color corn here now, but it is usually picked over ripe. I bought some excellent-looking 'maters from a roadside stand today. My hopes were dashed- they’re hard and tasteless. I did get a great cantaloupe, however. > > I’m heading to Indiana in a couple weeks. I shall feast upon corn and 'maters there. No, the corn situation in South Georgia hasn’t changed in the past 2 years. Excellent sweet corn and tomatoes, picked at the correct time, are just as easy to find now as they’ve ever been. Nothing has changed, despite your bizarre belief that all South Georgia farmers are too stupid to know when to pick corn. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/35 "2014-07-25T23:04:57Z")
Maybe you’re right- the good corn I got this year was from a farmer’s market in Cleveland, GA. Down here, Silver Queen is still the darling ear, while varieties far surpassing it in quality are still hard to find, even though they’ve been on the market for thirty years. I believe many people around here don’t believe there is better corn out there simply because they haven’t had any, and prefer their corn older than I do. I brought some good corn back from north of the Ohio once- so sweet it was good raw. I made the mistake of letting Georgia friends cook it. They boiled it for twenty minutes, and put sugar in the water, bless their hearts! ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/36 "2014-07-26T00:49:40Z")
Yeah, yeah, everything’s better where you’re from. Lord, I sure do hope you can teach us ignorant southerners a thing or two about how smart people do things. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/37 "2014-07-26T01:27:23Z")
I don’t think I’ve met a fruit I don’t like. (never tried - or smelled - durian, though!) I get a produce box weekly from a little local organic grocer. In summer, I just get a fruit box, the little farmer’s market I go to has great veg, not so great fruit. Right now I have, plums, mango, peaches, pears, cherries, grapefruit, grapes and bananas. It changes every week, the staples being bananas, citrus, and apples in the winter. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/38 "2014-07-27T15:36:17Z")
Yesterday I bought some Rainier cherries, the first ever. They were the size of little crab apples! Huge! Absolutely spectacularly delicious. I have a new favorite. ---
**Author:** ![troubledwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@troubledwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troubledwater)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855/39 "2014-07-27T21:19:55Z")
Mmmmm, Flame Seedless grapes, from the farmer’s market. Will never buy the green marbles at the supermarket again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-a-lot-of-fresh-fruit-and-berries-when-they-are-in-season/693855.md?page=1)