Raspberries. But if it were possible to pay somebody else to vet each individual raspberry for cleanliness and non-rottenness so that I could save a lot of time and have peace of mind while shoveling them into my face, I would.
GOD SAME. Raspberries are great but the emotional labor of buying raspberries and then immediately being entered into a race against the clock to inspect and devour each raspberry within the like twenty minute period (exaggeration, obviously) of time that the raspberries are still non-moldy is just too much for me most of the time
As much as I love fresh raspberries (especially straight-off-the-bush wild raspberries omgomgomg), I pretty much just stick with frozen, preserved, or smoothie-fied ones to scratch the itch. "Twenty minute period" really does sum up the fresh raspberry experience, especially with all those nooks and crannies that they have relative to other fruits 😔
off the bush raspberries are SO GOOD omfg. used to be my neighbors had an absolutely massive raspberry bush and I would just, like, sneak over and "steal" a couple if they were ripe (i was like... technically allowed tbh, the neighbors thought it was funny) The storebought version never quite tastes as good, by far.
Heeheehee that's very relatable. My neighbors had a wild bush, but it was definitely a "fair game" sort of situation, especially with how much home-grown produce my mom dumped on them.
If I see a hint of a raspberry bush, property law goes out the window. My eyes are evolutionary adapted to spot yummy berry, so thus yummy berry I must have. Hiking paths that include secret berries are the most valid hiking paths of all.
Tangerines or clementines, I don't know if they're technically different fruit or not but they're fun to peel and then SLOOOOOOOOWLY eat each slice individually.
I think tangerines are different but you're right, they're both the kind of fruit you can sit there going "i'm gonna peel this entire peel off in one go and then put back like it's been unopened whilst enjoying the bits inside" and not even get juice on your hands while doing it
Personally I don't, like, care for citrus in general but clementines are literally so fun i go out of my way to get them and eat them while going "...........wait but i do not like the way this tastes, why am i doing it?" the entire time
Grapefruit are the only kinds of citrus I actually enjoy, but they're such a pain to eat! it always makes a mess and it takes so much work lol. much easier to simply strip a clementine bare with your fingers in like two seconds flat and then devour the entire thing.
Now I'm curious what kind of citrus you've had. I mean, there's always the obvious, like, lemon grapefruit orange tangerine clementine lime etc, but like, what about kumquats? or etrog/citron? and so on
It was a "don't do this" joke on Tumblr, but the poster clearly misjudged humanity's ability to eat Weird Things. :D
I love grapefruit but I only ever have it when someone else peels it LOLSOB. The juices get everywhere including into the eight bajillion small cuts on my skin that I otherwise forget are there.
Going down the Wikipedia List of Citrus Fruits: bitter oranges, blood oranges, citron, clementine, kumquat but my mother just told me it was a "weird orange", lemon, lime, mandarin, navel orange (HARD TO PEEL >:( LET ME EAT YOU), orange, orangelo, pomelo (I keep wanting to eat it like a pear), tangelo, tangerine.
I have never had an etrog but I NEED TO TRY IT you are making me eat more fruit Red if my mother had been even 5% as effective as you I wouldn't have been such a picky eater.
sdkfhksdhfa yeah no im just. like. envisioning in my mind what that would taste like and it sounds very good. I do regularly engage in Food Crimes(tm) but like, that's not even that weird. Those flavors would be really good together.
YEAH. yeah. same. if my dad has prepared a half a grapefruit and wants to not eat the other half i am always first in line but doing it *myself*? NO. no. never.
genuinely thought navel oranges were just regular oranges that grew wrong until about thirty seconds ago jsdfgal
I don't think I've ever had a bitter orange, orangelo or pomelo, and like logic dictates that i probably will not like them, but I want to try them anyway haha. I've definitely never had a kumquat but that one I actually have high hopes for- a little sugar and a lot of bitter goes a long way for me XD. I genuinely thought etrog and citron were the same thing.
Unironically it's because I'm so damn picky that I know better than to even suggest you "have" to do anything, because, like, lmao no. you will engage with the weird foods that you have not engaged with yet at your own pace how you want and you'll be all the happier for it. the minute someone starts pressuring me to eat something i automatically hate it forever (and i am only half-joking, i still refuse to eat cheesecake out of principle) edit: unless it's pressure in the form of "because you'll hate it", if everyone is going "i bet you can't eat that, do it do it do it" at me i am just like ">:3 fuck you watch this [snarfs]"
OKAY OKAY what's your worst food crime? Mine is apparently eating cheese, sour cream and onion chips, and brownies together (not like even, in the same mouthful but taking Exactly one (1) bite of each in order) but honestly I just think my coworkers are WEAK. They don't even know about the carbohydrate abomination. LMAO
I didn't realize that kumquats were a different thing from navel oranges. I have the energy investment of navel oranges and they're not BAD but they are NOT WORTH THAT.
My mother did like... EVERYTHING they tell you not to do to get your kids to eat stuff. Hiding stuff in mashed potatoes, lying about what it was, not letting me leave the table until I Ate That Garbage, straight-up forcing me to eat stuff... I still hate broccoli (and yes I have tried it in all those How to Make Broccoli Actually Good recipes) and bonus, I don't speak to her anymore. :')
so the issue is that i don't actually know what qualifies as a food crime because this is just How I Eat, but the ones that my discord server has gotten upset with me for relatively recently: worcestershire sauce in sprite. good juice. tastes like flavors. i actually do in fact recommend this two raw eggs in a cup with cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg on top, not mixed because it tastes and slorps better that way vinegar and feta cheese, mixed up real good, and drank like a milkshake and my crowning "achievement" has got to be the time i drank spoiled milk that made me sick for hours on purpose because i thought it tasted good; it was like sour and nutty and i liked it. and also regretted my choices but not enough that if i had it again i wouldn't drink it. i am unfortunately both a milk lover and a "milk-gives-me-stomach-problems" person so i was just like 'okay, greater stomach problems, a small price to pay for better milk' lmfao
oh they don't taste too different from oranges, huh? kumquats, I mean. I was pitched them as 'so sour they make you cry' and 'the worst fruit on this planet, that only insane people eat on purpose' (source: my mother, who i admittedly now realize i shouldn't be taking the word of on anything lmfao)
my mother used to literally force us to eat certain foods as punishments and then force us to eat other foods because she thought we would like them and i don't know how on earth she didn't realize she was crossing the streams, lmao. especially as someone who likes weird meats quite a lot more than i like most desserts and whomst was and is deeply allergic to pretty much every bread product on the planet. like, no, i guarantee you being forced to eat liver or rice and beans (admittedly, a personal favorite, but it was a Punishment Meal as a kid and i have to cook it differently now to enjoy it) was not worse than being forced to eat a serving of cookies that tasted like ass and made me physically sick lmfao. and i also don't speak to her any more
also cheese, sour cream and onion chips, and brownies in succession just sounds like "foods you eat while watching tv" like??? have these people just never eaten snacks before?
How do y'all feel about cutting a citrus fruit in half and digging the meat out with a spoon / slicing a citrus fruit into wedges and eating the meat off the peel?
I respect people's right to eat citrus like that and I understand the aesthetic appeal and utility, but I will not do that.
I will say though, Red, grapefruit is also super messy when peeled like other fruit. Like my mother always ended up with a bunch of torn up grapefruit in a bowl of juice (I drank the juice straight out of the bowl).
LMAO yeah, no, I learned that one the hard way. First year of college, did not own more than one bowl and one plate of utensils and didn't have any like knives or spoons so i went "okay i will peel this, it's like an orange, right?"
This was a mistake, as I also didn't have easy access to a bathroom to clean all the grapefruit juice off my arms LMFAO
The other way is still a mess though!!! no matter what you do grapefruit is just a mess to eat. in a bad way
every time i read the word "strawberry" i remember a post i saw on tumblr that was a sign that said "strawbebbies" like, in a little field, and i am once again looking at the word strawberries and going ":0 strawbebbies..."
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The storebought version never quite tastes as good, by far.
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If I see a hint of a raspberry bush, property law goes out the window. My eyes are evolutionary adapted to spot yummy berry, so thus yummy berry I must have. Hiking paths that include secret berries are the most valid hiking paths of all.
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Personally I don't, like, care for citrus in general but clementines are literally so fun i go out of my way to get them and eat them while going "...........wait but i do not like the way this tastes, why am i doing it?" the entire time
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(Or dip them in ranch lmfao.)
I especially love clementines and tangerines because they're easier and more fun to peel than like, oranges or grapefruit, and taste SLIGHTLY better.
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Grapefruit are the only kinds of citrus I actually enjoy, but they're such a pain to eat! it always makes a mess and it takes so much work lol. much easier to simply strip a clementine bare with your fingers in like two seconds flat and then devour the entire thing.
Now I'm curious what kind of citrus you've had. I mean, there's always the obvious, like, lemon grapefruit orange tangerine clementine lime etc, but like, what about kumquats? or etrog/citron? and so on
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I love grapefruit but I only ever have it when someone else peels it LOLSOB. The juices get everywhere including into the eight bajillion small cuts on my skin that I otherwise forget are there.
Going down the Wikipedia List of Citrus Fruits: bitter oranges, blood oranges, citron, clementine, kumquat but my mother just told me it was a "weird orange", lemon, lime, mandarin, navel orange (HARD TO PEEL >:( LET ME EAT YOU), orange, orangelo, pomelo (I keep wanting to eat it like a pear), tangelo, tangerine.
I have never had an etrog but I NEED TO TRY IT you are making me eat more fruit Red if my mother had been even 5% as effective as you I wouldn't have been such a picky eater.
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YEAH. yeah. same. if my dad has prepared a half a grapefruit and wants to not eat the other half i am always first in line but doing it *myself*? NO. no. never.
genuinely thought navel oranges were just regular oranges that grew wrong until about thirty seconds ago jsdfgal
I don't think I've ever had a bitter orange, orangelo or pomelo, and like logic dictates that i probably will not like them, but I want to try them anyway haha. I've definitely never had a kumquat but that one I actually have high hopes for- a little sugar and a lot of bitter goes a long way for me XD.
I genuinely thought etrog and citron were the same thing.
Unironically it's because I'm so damn picky that I know better than to even suggest you "have" to do anything, because, like, lmao no. you will engage with the weird foods that you have not engaged with yet at your own pace how you want and you'll be all the happier for it. the minute someone starts pressuring me to eat something i automatically hate it forever (and i am only half-joking, i still refuse to eat cheesecake out of principle)
edit: unless it's pressure in the form of "because you'll hate it", if everyone is going "i bet you can't eat that, do it do it do it" at me i am just like ">:3 fuck you watch this [snarfs]"
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I didn't realize that kumquats were a different thing from navel oranges. I have the energy investment of navel oranges and they're not BAD but they are NOT WORTH THAT.
My mother did like... EVERYTHING they tell you not to do to get your kids to eat stuff. Hiding stuff in mashed potatoes, lying about what it was, not letting me leave the table until I Ate That Garbage, straight-up forcing me to eat stuff... I still hate broccoli (and yes I have tried it in all those How to Make Broccoli Actually Good recipes) and bonus, I don't speak to her anymore. :')
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worcestershire sauce in sprite. good juice. tastes like flavors. i actually do in fact recommend this
two raw eggs in a cup with cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg on top, not mixed because it tastes and slorps better that way
vinegar and feta cheese, mixed up real good, and drank like a milkshake
and my crowning "achievement" has got to be the time i drank spoiled milk that made me sick for hours on purpose because i thought it tasted good; it was like sour and nutty and i liked it. and also regretted my choices but not enough that if i had it again i wouldn't drink it. i am unfortunately both a milk lover and a "milk-gives-me-stomach-problems" person so i was just like 'okay, greater stomach problems, a small price to pay for better milk' lmfao
oh they don't taste too different from oranges, huh? kumquats, I mean. I was pitched them as 'so sour they make you cry' and 'the worst fruit on this planet, that only insane people eat on purpose' (source: my mother, who i admittedly now realize i shouldn't be taking the word of on anything lmfao)
my mother used to literally force us to eat certain foods as punishments and then force us to eat other foods because she thought we would like them and i don't know how on earth she didn't realize she was crossing the streams, lmao. especially as someone who likes weird meats quite a lot more than i like most desserts and whomst was and is deeply allergic to pretty much every bread product on the planet. like, no, i guarantee you being forced to eat liver or rice and beans (admittedly, a personal favorite, but it was a Punishment Meal as a kid and i have to cook it differently now to enjoy it) was not worse than being forced to eat a serving of cookies that tasted like ass and made me physically sick lmfao.
and i also don't speak to her any more
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I will say though, Red, grapefruit is also super messy when peeled like other fruit. Like my mother always ended up with a bunch of torn up grapefruit in a bowl of juice (I drank the juice straight out of the bowl).
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This was a mistake, as I also didn't have easy access to a bathroom to clean all the grapefruit juice off my arms LMFAO
The other way is still a mess though!!! no matter what you do grapefruit is just a mess to eat. in a bad way
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Pomegranates!
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pomegranates are my other favorite fruit haha, i am just currently bereft of pomegranates and rich in cans of preserved lychee
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i'll see if i can find it haha it was cute
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They aren’t grown commercially so have to be picked in the wild if you want them. They grow in poor nutrients acidic soil.
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"Fruit" flavor: anything grape, I love grape, especially Japanese grape candies
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