# You get to eat just three types of fruit over the next five years **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760 "2019-07-28T16:04:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/61 "2019-07-30T15:21:14Z")
Reluctantly, I’ll take oranges, pomegranates, and lemons. Since I grow my own oranges\* and pomegranates I’ll have to include them, but I really prefer grapefruit to orange for fresh eating. My inlaws provide us with an annual supply of peaches and lemons, but I can’t imagine cooking for five years without lemon, so I guess the peaches are out. \*they are really satsumas, a variety of mandarin, but I don’t expect the OP to cover everything exactly, although it appears some people do 🙂 I’m a bit unusual in that the easiest for me to do without would be apples. I consume large quantities of everything else on the list. And God Save the King! For allowing the wine exemption. If I’m pickled most of the time I won’t miss fruit as much. But what we really need is a revolution. Off with his head! (with a banana machete) ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/62 "2019-07-30T16:10:55Z")
Some bones to pick: Peaches and nectarines (maybe even apricots) should be the same category. So should Lemons and Limes. It skews it to have people choosing their favorite cooking ingredient as opposed to fruit. So let them have both. Honeydew is not on the list. Inexplicable. If my top 3 are Banana, Pineapple and the orange group my second 3 would be: Watermelon Peaches Honeydew That leaves Cherries off, but they can be iffy and gamey, too sweet, etc etc. This is not even to get into the gamble that some of these represent in the store. If they aren’t good it’s just off. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/63 "2019-07-30T16:52:26Z")
> [@bump](#): > > if we wanted strawberry jam, would we have to choose strawberries, lemons AND apples, because you use lemon juice and pectin? You can make strawberry jam without either lemon juice or fruit pectin. There are other pectins; and there’s the just-cook-it-down method. I’ve seen, and made, plenty of strawberry jam with no lemon juice. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/64 "2019-07-30T17:40:49Z")
I like apples, grapes and pineapple. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/65 "2019-07-31T01:18:46Z")
I must inform the King of Fruit that today I’ve had an apple, a banana, 1/4 of a cantaloupe, a peach, some cherries, and some blueberries. Long live the revolution! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/66 "2019-07-31T01:50:06Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Some bones to pick… My bone to pick is folks who don’t bother to read the thread before picking bones. > [@drad\_dog](#): > > Peaches and nectarines (maybe even apricots) should be the same category… See post 39. > [@drad\_dog](#): > > …This is not even to get into the gamble that some of these represent in the store. If they aren’t good it’s just off. See post 1. kof ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/67 "2019-07-31T01:52:45Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I must inform the King of Fruit that today I’ve had an apple, a banana, 1/4 of a cantaloupe, a peach, some cherries, and some blueberries. Long live the revolution! 😉 **[King of Fruit hat on]** One more post like this and your future fruit privileges will come under discussion. kof ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/68 "2019-07-31T02:07:29Z")
Banana, Mango, Pineapple. All hail the tropical fruits! ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/69 "2019-07-31T02:20:25Z")
Bananas, blueberries and cherries. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/70 "2019-07-31T02:26:48Z")
I pretty much only eat two kinds of fruit right now, so adding one felt like a luxury. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/71 "2019-07-31T09:48:51Z")
The two leaders - apples and bananas - are way, \*way \*down on my list of favorites. Anyone else with me on this? kof ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/72 "2019-07-31T12:31:05Z")
Yeah, I already mentioned my slight disdain for apples, and even though I eat a fair number of bananas, they would be far down on my list of favorites. That still doesn’t mean I’m willing to live without them, O mighty King of Fruit. Have you been sleeping with one eye open? The banana machete is now sharpened(though some argued to leave it dull), now we just need to fix a wheel on the tumbrel. ---
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/73 "2019-07-31T13:36:27Z")
Do we get to have an amazing, bacchanalian, fruit feast at the end of five years? (Please, oh please, oh please!) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/74 "2019-07-31T22:39:59Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > Yeah, I already mentioned my slight disdain for apples, and even though I eat a fair number of bananas, they would be far down on my list of favorites. > > That still doesn’t mean I’m willing to live without them, O mighty King of Fruit. Have you been sleeping with one eye open? The banana machete is now sharpened(though some argued to leave it dull), now we just need to fix a wheel on the tumbrel. Eh. Your banana machete don’t scare me. Yer yellow. > [@slightly\_askew](#): > > Do we get to have an amazing, bacchanalian, fruit feast at the end of five years? (Please, oh please, oh please!) You mean a frorgy? kof ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/75 "2019-07-31T23:29:01Z")
Limes - for the reasons others have mentioned Papaya - because they’re amazing Plantains - you’ll have pry my fried plantains from my cold dead hands. (except there won’t be any in my hands, i will have eaten it all) ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/76 "2019-07-31T23:40:33Z")
You people have clearly never had a good mango. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/77 "2019-08-01T00:00:59Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > My bone to pick is folks who don’t bother to read the thread before picking bones. > > See post 39. > > See post 1. > kof I saw #39. But you know, you didn’t know how\*\*\* I \*\*\*felt about it yet … Also I said apricots too, and you hadn’t considered that. And my lemons and limes point was in there too. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/78 "2019-08-01T01:36:16Z")
I understand the banana-meh. But some of the non-Cavendish varieties are totally sublime (e.g. the “apple-bananas” in Hawaii). The latter is smaller and I think does not transport as well, but has more striking and intense banana flavor, earning my vote. I selected mango since they are easy to find and if ripened well, are just killer. Many varieties to choose from, and even grocery store mangoes and those at Costco can be awesome. Pineapple. What can I say. Slicing into a good pineapple is one of the simple pleasures in life that activates many senses, and the fruit has many uses besides being chilled and eaten straight. No hate on the other choices - I love almost all fruits. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/79 "2019-08-01T03:08:35Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > You people have clearly never had a good mango. That was a tough one to leave off. I, unfortunately, can’t eat or cut up a mango without making a mess. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760/80 "2019-08-01T05:58:54Z")
Since Durian wasn’t listed, can I still eat them in addition to my “three”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-eat-just-three-types-of-fruit-over-the-next-five-years/837760.md?page=5)