# Nectarines are not just fuzz-free peaches

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 7, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nectarines-are-not-just-fuzz-free-peaches/367636 "2006-08-07T01:53:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nectarines-are-not-just-fuzz-free-peaches/367636/21 "2006-08-07T17:02:26Z")

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> [@LavenderBlue](#):
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> Otherwise I much prefer a good nectarine when I can find one. The ones around here always seem to come up sweeter and juicier than peaches.

Agreed. And some people have said (one or two in this thread as well) that a peach is better because of how the juice runs down on your hands and chin.  
UGH.

I fucking hate sloppy fruit. It’s nasty. If I have peaches I cut it up and eat it that way.

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nectarines-are-not-just-fuzz-free-peaches/367636/22 "2006-08-07T18:33:10Z")

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> [@zweisamkeit](#):
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> I fucking hate sloppy fruit. It’s nasty. If I have peaches I cut it up and eat it that way.

Bah! My wife calls me a fruit snob, because i’m so particular about the fruit that I’ll eat–it’s not uncommon for me to take a single bite of, say, a tangerine, and refuse to eat any more either of it or the batch it came from. Really, though, I’m more of a fruit schizophrenic. Good fruit, perfectly ripe and flavorful, is one of the great joys of life; but unripe/overripe/flavorless/overfibrous fruit is totally nasty and inedible to me. It makes me almost literally sick.

Peaches are one of the best examples of this. When a peach is crunchy, it’s just revolting. There is no way I will eat a crunchy peach. Peaches should be brilliant orange and really tender; with the fuzz it should be like eating a mouse\*. The juice should drip everywhere.

Last weekend I went to the farmer’s market and tried several peaches, crunchy and soft, bland and flavorful, until I found the perfect variety (I think it was Hanover). I bought 25 pounds of South Carolina’s best, ate a bunch of them, and peeled and sliced and froze the rest. Tomorrow morning I’ll be thawing some of them to make peach pie. Tomorrow evening will be pie–yay!

Daniel

- one of the most memorable metaphors from children’s literature

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