If the transgression was inadvertent you shall not be punished.
Profiting from your fruit is not in the spirit of the mandate and is not allowed. You get your fresh fruit delivered to you, but it is for your own consumption only.
You must be a barrel of laughs at dinner parties.
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Apples. Lots of varieties, sweet, sour, mixed.
Cranberries. I’m American and I need my cranberries, especially in November.
Lemon. Hot toddy, lemon bars, lemon chicken, chicken picatta, lemonade, lemon drop margarita, shall I go on?
Damn you King of the fruit.
Id pick cherries, bananas and oranges.
At inseason ripeness and flavor, all year?
I’m picking raspberry, strawberry, and peach.
Gonna really miss blueberries and blackcaps, though; also my intermittent bananas and pears. And good sweet cider. ETA: oh and cherries! But thanks for the wine!
I’m one of those pineapple-on-pizza types, so that’s #1; sometimes I’m in the mood for blackberries, and sometimes I’m in the mood for strawberries — and sometimes I’m in the mood for pineapple by itself — and I guess I’ll miss nectarines, but, sure, figure that’d give me a good enough 1-2-3 to enjoy for years.
My every day foods include apples, bananas, and snacking on dried cherries along with almonds. I’d miss all the berries, peaches, watermelon, and lemon juice for cooking lots but these are my dietary staples dude!
I see I picked the less popular choices.
If I had to never eat bananas again I would not be heartbroken, though I consume 1-2 a week. Commercial varieties (actually there’s probably just one) are bland and blah.
At the end of my five-year fruit deprivation sentence I might splurge on home-grown strawberries and raspberries.
Apple, strawberry, grape. First, I love pies and preserves. Second, I’m a wine drinker.
Apples, blueberries, pomegranates.
Hard cider to replace wine, applejack to replace cognac.
Not necessarily. Think of red bean paste in red bean buns. That’s a culinary use in which beans are sweet, like fruits.
And think of baked squashes. Many of them are sweet and used to make pies. So culinarily, they’re at least partially in the fruit category.
So is corn, given the existence of corn ice cream.
Yes, and zucchini bread and carrot cake and all that are sweet, but ask the average person whether zucchini, carrot, squash, corn, red beans, are fruit or vegetable, you’ll find the answers gravitating toward one category over the other. Don’t be difficult.
Why not? Being difficult–or, as I would describe it, thinking about what each hypothetical actually posits–is half the fun.
Sigh.
I really didn’t think I’d need to spell it out in the OP, but here you go.
You can choose your fruits and still cram your maws as full as you want of the following and not be in violation:
[ul]
[li]Avocado[/li][li]Beans of any variety[/li][li] Bell pepper[/li][li] Chili pepper[/li][li] Corn kernel[/li][li] Cucumber[/li][li] Eggplant[/li][li]Gefilte fish[/li][li]Hostess Twinkies[/li][li]Italian Wedding soup[/li][li]Legumes[/li][li]Nuts[/li][li] Olive[/li][li] Pea[/li][li]Pig knuckles[/li][li] Pumpkin[/li][li]Rocky Mountain oysters[/li][li]Seeds[/li][li]Sourdough bread[/li][li] Squash[/li][li] Tomato[/li][li]Vegemite[/li][li]Welsh rarebit[/li][li] Zucchini[/li][/ul]
And, of course, wine.
KoF
King of Fruit weighing in (finally).
This was actually pretty difficult for me. **Apples **and bananas, a big favorite 'round here, don’t do much for me. See you in 2024.
I came close to picking pineapple, orange/tan/clem, raspberry, and lemon. I will miss you all.
I went with:
Lime, solely for my killer guacamole.
Watermelon. I got ahold of a good one last week and I can’t get enough of it.
Peach. There is nothing like a juicy peach.
Believe it or not, I am munching on a delicious peach as I type this.
kof
I feel like the major breakout will be between people who know how to cook a bit and those who don’t. Lemon and lime are common ingredients in a wide variety of dishes so, without at least one of the two, you’re suddenly going to find that a lot of your favorite dishes are distinctly worse.
If I didn’t have to choose lime, I would have gone with an “other” for my third choice and picked figs. The other two picks are mango and watermelon. I usually tend towards the mellower fruit. Strawberries are cherries are too sour for me, generally, and I’ve had my life fill of apples. I’m happy to take a five year break from them.
Apples (just need Granny Smiths, personally), grapes and oranges/tangerines/clementines for me.
So if I don’t pick grape, I can never have anything with raisins in again? Well, that was an easy choice…
Grape
Lemon
Blackberry
I think it’s a cheat to have orange/tangerine/clementine but separate out the peach and nectarine, I mean they’re the same species, which the citruses listed aren’t really.
Since I’m on a kidney-friendly diet, I have to go with the fruits on that diet:
Apples
Blueberries
Cranberries
Wish I could include oranges and bananas, but no.
Lawd amighty, tell us about your fondness for raisins. I see them as grapes with all the good stuff sucked out.
Peach and nectarine - yeah, I suppose I could have combined them. I guess it didn’t occur to me because I view peaches as far superior (i.e. not in the same category).
kof
What, water? 
No raisins = no fruitcake, no mince pies, no bobotie, no panettone, no stollen, no Eccles cake, no currant buns, no teacakes, no Christmas cake, no Christmas pudding. No joy, basically.
Hell, half the reason I picked lemon was for the dried lemon and citron peel (succade) that goes into fruit mince. I’ll miss the other fruit like dried apples, but raisins are the most important component
Also, I’m forcing bergamot in under “lemon” so I can have my cakes with Earl Grey.
Where are we classifying dates? Fruit or not?