# So, who likes passionfruit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203 "2014-10-13T14:26:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/21 "2014-10-14T02:28:38Z")
I’m going to go against the grain and say it’s not for me. I always _want_ to like passionfruit, because it seems like the kind of fruit I would like, but something about the flavor never does it for me. Tastes too … sickly sweet? I’ve only had it fresh once, but the juice doesn’t do it for me either. More power to the rest of you, you can have my share 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Daffyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daffyd/32/8923_2.png) [@Daffyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daffyd)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/22 "2014-10-14T02:44:18Z")
Who woulda guessed my passionfruit from the back yard could actually be worth something… I have about 50 that I picked yesterday… We planted one plant a couple of years ago, and never knew that it would take over Los Angeles if it had a chance… I think I might be setting up a stall at a farmer’s market at some point just to get rid of some of these… and don’t get me started on the 18 Satsuma trees and 4 Guavas… ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/23 "2014-10-14T10:46:10Z")
I like passionfruit well enough, but I prefer grenadilla (we get both, in South Africa). My favourite is a grenadilla ice lolly, with the seeds still in it. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/24 "2014-10-14T11:10:42Z")
Which [looks like this](http://www.gattiicecream.co.za/images/granadilla.jpg), BTW (although the actual fruit used looks more like passionfruit (“purple grenadilla” in South Africa) than grenadilla (which is orange/yellowish) - we call both just “grenadilla” here. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/25 "2014-10-14T12:18:18Z")
How about soursop? I’ve had it in the Caribbean and really like its complex taste. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/26 "2014-10-14T12:58:00Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > I’m going to go against the grain and say it’s not for me. > > I always _want_ to like passionfruit, because it seems like the kind of fruit I would like, but something about the flavor never does it for me. Tastes too … sickly sweet? I’ve only had it fresh once, but the juice doesn’t do it for me either. > > More power to the rest of you, you can have my share 🙂 This is how I feel about all the passionfruit flavored teas and yogurts and candies and things. I \*want \*to like it, because passionfruit is such a cool name and a cool plant with flowers that betray its clear alien status. But I just can’t accept our passionfruit overlords. I’ve never actually tried the _fruit_, however. So I should do that before I write off passionfruit entirely. (If I judged grapes on grape flavored things, I wouldn’t like them, either.) ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/27 "2014-10-14T15:30:18Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > This is how I feel about all the passionfruit flavored teas and yogurts and candies and things. I \*want \*to like it, because passionfruit is such a cool name and a cool plant with flowers that betray its clear alien status. But I just can’t accept our passionfruit overlords. > > I’ve never actually tried the _fruit_, however. So I should do that before I write off passionfruit entirely. (If I judged grapes on grape flavored things, I wouldn’t like them, either.) You definitely should try the fruit. I like some passionfruit-flavored things, but they taste like passionfruit in the same way that raspberry-flavored things taste like fresh raspberries, i.e., only a vague resemblance. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/28 "2014-10-14T15:42:08Z")
Aussie resident here. Planted a new vine about 3-4 months ago. So no crop yet but it will come! My wife knocked up a fruit salad the other day with a couple of passionfruit just ladled over the lot. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/29 "2014-10-14T15:48:07Z")
I fell in love with passion fruit when visiting the Caribbean. We’d drink fresh juice or scoop out the fruit with a spoon and eat it straight. I wish it was easier to find (and cheaper) up here. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/30 "2014-10-14T15:55:32Z")
I tried Chobani passionfruit greek yogurt a few months ago, and that’s pretty much the only flavor I buy now. Crunching the seeds is just delightful. Never had it any other way though. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/31 "2014-10-14T19:36:19Z")
Had it for the first time just the other day. It was kinda dry and probably not quite ripe (aren’t they supposed to be wrinkly on the outside?), so I’ll wait to try a good one before I pass judgment. The ones I had were green though, with white seeds/pulp. Quite different from what I see on wikipedia. Okay, typing “unripe passionfruit” into google images shows me [exactly what I ate](https://www.flickr.com/photos/braclynn/2349425099/). ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/32 "2014-10-15T00:56:11Z")
Aussie here - love passionfruit of course! Was one of the first fruit trees (vines) we planted when we moved here. Nothing better than fresh off the vine… though a lemon-passionfruit curd is pretty close 🙂 We had an American join our team at work (which consisted of 1 aussie, 1 nepalese, 1 kiwi & 1 scandinavian - not sure which country exactly), and somehow it came up that she had never tasted one and never heard of them. So we all trooped up to the fruit shop for lunch and bought some. Watching her face as she ate it was amusing, she wasn’t a fan. More for the rest of us! ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/33 "2014-10-15T01:23:53Z")
> [@GreedySmurf](#): > > Aussie resident here. Planted a new vine about 3-4 months ago. So no crop yet but it will come! > > My wife knocked up a fruit salad the other day with a couple of passionfruit just ladled over the lot. Mine is flowering for the first time! I planted it 18 months ago but it’s had a number of setbacks between the rabbits and the chooks. I planted it on top of a whole cow liver because the internet assured me that was the traditional way to give a good start, and then I discovered that absolutely no one I knew had ever heard of that “tradition”, so I may have been pranked. Well played, internet, well played. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/34 "2014-10-15T04:29:15Z")
I love passion fruit and rarely get to eat it. Passion fruit is way too spendy and difficult to find in the Pacific Northwest. Last I found any, it was at the Uwajimaya in Seattle. They wanted something like $5 for a single fruit. On the other hand, when I’m lucky enough to visit Amsterdam, the grocery chain has 4 packs of passion fruit for less than that- I think it was about 3 Euro last time I visited in 2012. So clearly I just need to renew my passport and sweet talk my husband’s aunt into paying for another family trip. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/35 "2014-10-15T07:50:08Z")
I love the juice, but don’t very often eat the fruits. They’re costly, as someone said all shriveled (never seen a fruit that wasn’t) and often sour. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/36 "2014-10-15T08:16:26Z")
This thread has brought back wonderful memories of scoffing down passionfruit at the back of my neighbours garden. They also had gooseberry bushes and we scoffed those down too… once. Then spent the next day being rather ill… I have never seen passionfruit here in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203/37 "2014-10-15T08:35:21Z")
I tolerate them on pavlovas but I don’t really like the taste very much. I’ve certainly never eaten one on its own. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-likes-passionfruit/701203.md?page=1)