You may not have heard yet, but I have been appointed King of Fruit.
As your king, I am allowing each citizen to select just three types of fruit to enjoy over the next five years, after such time you may go back to eating whichever fruit(s) you desire.
Note that these restrictions apply to the fruit in any form. Thus, if you do not select coconut, for example, you are forbidden from enjoying a hunk of German Chocolate cake, drinking a Piña Colada, or wolfing down an Almond Joy.
For the purposes of this poll, tomatoes, olives, and avocados are not considered fruit.
Also, please disregard any considerations about limited supplies or seasonal implications. You get all the fruit you want, and it’s all at peak freshness.
Who knew? I never put mustard on fruit. But here we are.
I got Banana because it’s for breakfast. I don’t actually think they compete with other fruits at all. Not juicy, not firm, my least favorite is #1 here.
Pineapple is gold. The best fruit, useful on things and in yogurt etc. It’s sweet and juicy.
Orange etc. is on here for being so adaptable to all kinds of needs.
I’m exploiting the “in season” clause. IMHO apples are good about two weeks a year and cantaloupes are good for about a month. If I could get McIntosh year round or cantaloupe that wasn’t like a rock, I’d eat little else. And apples covers such a huge number of varieties. Third, I have to have limes for my beer.
I’m answering this assuming this means I can only use three fruits in my cooking, as well, and no others, even if only for the juice.
By that measure, I have to keep lemon and lime. No way I live without lemon and lime. I can probably get by with just one of those, but I’ll take both, since I’m not a big fruit eater, but I use them for ingredients.
After that, I’ll go with banana, as that’s the fruit I’m most likely to eat on its own.
ETA: I’m assuming we’re talking about culinary fruit and not botanical fruit, as well. Otherwise, tomato would take the place of banana, and then chile peppers would take the place of, oh, lemon, I guess, but I think you just want the culinary fruit given your options.
What about squashes, cucumbers, beans, and peas? They’re all fruits, but they’re not listed in this poll.
If you’re limited to three kinds of fruit, wouldn’t that mean that you’re also limited in which seeds you can eat? After all, seeds are parts of fruits. So why aren’t all the grains, seeds, and nuts we eat given as choices?
Oh crap, I missed the part about culinary uses. I voted for peaches, oranges / tangerines / clementines, and grapefruit, but I’d like to swap out the grapefruit and swap in lemons, on further reflection.
Since our benevolent King has granted the Wine Exception, I have to go with citrus: oranges, lemons and limes. They are the ones I consume the most by far.
OTOH, if I could supply unlimited amounts of perfectly ripe fruit regardless of the season, I could make a killing selling to high-end restaurants. Then I would select cantaloupe, watermelon either peaches or honeydew. Or pick three rarely imported melons that would command an even higher premium.
They are all generally treated as vegetables. Come on, how hard is this? Yes, many of the vegetables we use are actually “fruits” in the botanical sense, but the common sense, squashes, cukes, beans, and peas are veggies.