# Pre-Poll Data Collecting -- What's your Favorite "raw" fruit? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 1, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098 "2014-10-01T17:35:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/1 "2014-10-01T17:35:00Z")
By “raw” I mean uncooked. By “fruit” I mean whatever you consider a fruit as opposed to a vegetable. If I started a poll at this point I would probably leave out at least a dozen fruits that I know exist, but just don’t consider “popular.” Name as many as you enjoy eating, not just ones you can name. If we already did this before just point to the thread and we can be done with it. I remember similar things on breakfast foods, nuts, cheeses (I think), and other such edibles. But I don’t recall the fruit thing. Among my favorite raw / fresh fruits, I’d list: apples peaches pears cantaloupe watermelon strawberries grapes (white mostly, seedless) bananas coconuts kiwi oranges grapefruits I could go on, and I have probably omitted a favorite already! Help! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/2 "2014-10-01T17:42:19Z")
apples peaches pears cantaloupe strawberries wild raspberries, aka wineberries blueberries grapes (white mostly, seedless) bananas oranges grapefruits ---
**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:** [October 1, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/3 "2014-10-01T17:52:05Z")
I’ve never met a fruit I didn’t love so listing and ordering them would be kind of pointless. But one does stand out among the rest and that’s a super ripe persimmon. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/4 "2014-10-01T17:58:12Z")
Bananas Kiwi Pomegranate ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/5 "2014-10-01T17:58:37Z")
Cantaloupe. There’s just something about it. All things being equal, if I had to pick just one fruit to eat for a meal, I’d pick cantaloupe. There is one exception. It’s more difficult to find a perfectly ripe honeydew, but when you do, it blows cantaloupe out of the water. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/6 "2014-10-01T18:15:51Z")
strawberries raspberries black raspberries wineberries (yes there is a distinct flavor difference between these three varieties of raspberries) pineapple watermelon kiwi mango plums grapes bing cherries nectarines peaches apples I can eat bananas, pears, cantaloupe, and clementines if I have to but I don’t enjoy it much because of the textures. And blueberries just kind of taste like dye to me… ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/7 "2014-10-01T18:23:59Z")
Banana Blueberry Grape I think they’re my faves because they’re the easiest to eat. Blueberries probably win for ease (no waste) but I’ve had sour blueberries more often than sweet ones yet have never run into a banana that wasn’t tasty. Grapes generally are always tasty but sometimes you run into the ones with seeds. ---
**Author:** ![iljitsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@iljitsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iljitsch)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/8 "2014-10-01T18:35:52Z")
Actually bananas often aren’t very tasty as they’re sold unripe. Same thing for many fruits, I need to put them in the window cill so they can get some sun for a few days so they ripen. But too long and they dry out (bananas) or start going bad (everything). Fruit is rather fussy food. (Interestingly, though, it’s one of the few things we eat alive.) Some of my favorites are: - nectarines (they’re identical to peaches but more pleasant to eat with skin) - minneolas - blackberries - pears - elstar and golden delicious apples - plums - dates - mangos ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/9 "2014-10-01T18:53:16Z")
Watermelon Pineapple Mango Asian Pear Strawberry Grapes Banana Kiwi ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/10 "2014-10-01T19:12:20Z")
I love love LOVE fresh fruit. There’s no fruit I hate that I’ve tried so far, and only a few that I’m not particularly fond of. I can easily eat pounds of berries/cherries/grapes, or an entire medium sized watermelon (or half a large one) in one sitting. My favorites: Oranges (eat one or two almost every day) and similar (tangerines/etc.) Grapefruit Watermelon Cantaloupe All berries, especially raspberries and blackberries Cherries Peaches/plums/nectarines Mango Dates Grapes Kiwi Pineapple Pears Lychee Fruits that I like but don’t love: Bananas Apples Honeydew melon Fruits that I have little experience with: Passion fruit Asian pear Pomegranate Starfruit ---
**Author:** ![HipGnosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@HipGnosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HipGnosis)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/11 "2014-10-01T19:34:37Z")
Blackberries black raspberries raspberries coconut ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/12 "2014-10-01T19:36:26Z")
Did anyone watch the season premier of Modern Family? There’s a running joke where every plum Mitchell eats is perfect, and there are a bunch of shots of him walking around the house moaning in delight every time he bites into one. I totally get it. There’s nothing quite like a perfect plum. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/13 "2014-10-01T19:40:53Z")
I really like Elton John. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/14 "2014-10-01T19:48:07Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > I really like Elton John. Wow! It took 13 posts! I’m stunned. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/15 "2014-10-01T19:49:16Z")
I love fruit! It would be very difficult to place them in order of preference. I love: mango cantaloupe banana pineapple pears, all varieties strawberries blueberries raspberries nectarines grapes, red or green but seedless please watermelon apples, not all varieties star fruit apricot plums peaches oranges grapefruit ---
**Author:** ![dataguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dataguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dataguy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/16 "2014-10-01T20:08:16Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Cantaloupe. There’s just something about it. All things being equal, if I had to pick just one fruit to eat for a meal, I’d pick cantaloupe. > > There is one exception. It’s more difficult to find a perfectly ripe honeydew, but when you do, it blows cantaloupe out of the water. For the longest time I didn’t think I liked honeydews. Then I discovered that I had never eaten a ripe one. Once, on a picnic, someone brought some green fruit slices. They were amazingly delicious. I asked what it was – it was honeydew. The problem is that honeydew fruit is always green. Just a little deeper shade of green when it’s ripe. Now that I think of it, I don’t think I’ve eaten another ripe honeydew since then. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/17 "2014-10-01T20:24:16Z")
> [@iljitsch](#): > > Actually bananas often aren’t very tasty as they’re sold unripe. In your opinion. I’d much rather eat an unripe banana than an unripe anything else. But thanks for the attempt at correction of my favorite stuff, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/18 "2014-10-01T21:14:21Z")
This is bound to become a list of every fruit in the world, but I have to add: Mangosteen Longan Dragon fruit ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/19 "2014-10-01T21:25:21Z")
It would probably be easier for me to list fruit I didn’t like. I dislike blackberries, and would probably not enjoy durian although I’ve never had it. Assuming the fruit/berries were fresh picked and not store bought (just one example - I don’t bother with supermarket strawberries because they are tasteless, but ripe fresh-picked are a completely different thing.) And I’ve been disappointed so many times by apples I can’t recall the last time I bought one. Also, I do not like kiwi fruit and their weird little seeds. What I will buy and cost be damned: Blueberries Raspberries Mangoes Papayas Bananas Clementines Red grapefruit Melons of any sort Nectarines Cherries ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098/20 "2014-10-01T22:50:14Z")
Like **chiroptera** It would be easier to list the fruits I don’t like. Bananas Which is stupid, because they are so good for a person and easy to carry and have a pretty long (for fruit) shelf life, but I just don’t like them. My favs are stone fruit, tomatoes and Annie Smith apples. I could and have eaten them until I get bad results. :smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-data-collecting-whats-your-favorite-raw-fruit/700098.md?page=2)