# Why aren't pears as popular as apples?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 16, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-pears-as-popular-as-apples/834066 "2019-05-16T16:40:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-pears-as-popular-as-apples/834066/61 "2019-05-19T23:49:06Z")

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Bartletts are my favorite – drip-down-the-chin juicy and a beautifully smooth texture, not at all what I would call gritty. But, yes, you gotta time it right. Other varieties do better when underripe, but Bartletts have to fully ripen to be truly enjoyable. But, yes, if I could pick one fruit to enjoy for the rest of my life, it’d be a perfectly ripe Bartlett.

I only just learned right now that Bartletts are the same thing as Williams pears (which is what they are known as outside North America.) I had no idea. When I lived in Europe, I loved Williams pears, but never made the connection that they were the same as Bartlett pears.

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