# What 3 kinds of fruit come into mind when I say "fruit"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367 "2010-04-08T01:58:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367/81 "2010-04-11T06:31:24Z")
apple, banana, Bruce Vilanch[/spoiler][spoiler]I spent 20 minutes looking up his name (I finally Googled “hollywood squares fat gay” and it popped right up!) but I really did think of him. I’m pretty sure it was an actual joke on the show. I’m surprised no one else has said it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367/82 "2010-04-11T07:24:53Z")
My Feud answers were the same as the OP. What I mean is, I actually had to sit and think: what type of fruit would be popular. Just thinking of fruit made me think of vegetables, oddly enough. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367/83 "2010-04-11T07:37:20Z")
Apple, banana, pear. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367/84 "2010-04-11T12:12:29Z")
Apple, grapes, banana. However, I didn’t think of them in “order” as such, but as placed in a fruit bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367/85 "2010-04-11T13:03:21Z")
Apple, banana, pear ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367/86 "2010-04-11T17:46:15Z")
Bananas, strawberries, pineapple. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367/87 "2010-04-15T07:39:28Z")
[spoiler]grape, peach, nectarine …but probably only because you said to imagine 3 fruit all at the same time, which made me envisage a fruit bowl. (ETA after reading: much like **cactus waltz** , apparently. 🙂 ) If you’d asked me for 1 fruit, then another, then another as separate items I’d probably have gone apple, banana, pear. But since I was going the fruitbowl route, I only imagined fruits I actually like to eat, so… grape, peach, nectarine.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367/88 "2010-04-15T12:08:42Z")
Apple Orange Banana ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367/89 "2010-04-16T21:22:55Z")
Apple Orange Banana in that order, too. Red, orange, yellow. ---
**Author:** ![NajaSong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@NajaSong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaSong)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-3-kinds-of-fruit-come-into-mind-when-i-say-fruit/535367/90 "2010-04-17T02:55:43Z")
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