Fruit that you desire
 

When in season there are not many that I do not REALLY enjoy, but for me some consistent favorites are:

Watermelon
Lychee
Jackfruit

What fruit is your favorite?

I like most fruits including those you listed, and can't immediately think of one that I don't like.

But, I wonder, are you able to find fresh lychee and jackfruit in the US?

And, I don't know, but are melons considered fruits?

Chinese Pomelos
Chinese pears (apple pears)
Tezas ruby red grapefruits
Hawaiian custard apples

Lychees and longans are readily available in Canada. I think I saw a jackfruit (snakeskin fruit?) at a Filipino grocer too.

yes, easier on the West Coast than here in Midwest.

I thought they were, but then again.....would not be the first time I've misclassified a plant.

I think botanically, a fruit is anything that surrounds a seed (obviously all formed from a pollinated and fertilized flower).

I know there are some exceptions but just about everything we consider is fruit is fruit (of course a fruit that many don't consider one is the tomato).

Mango and raspberries (do they count?) are the only fresh fruits I can think of ATM. Would love to try breadfruit and durian someday though.

I've tried building up an appetite for fresh fruit over the years, but with little success.

My girlfriend, OTOH, puts Micronesian Fruit Bats and various simian species to shame.

Ripe oranges and grapefruits from my late uncle's trees in PSP.

Once you eat tree ripened fruit, you can never eat store bought again.

Dan

Mango (Hayden)
Lychee
Blackberries
Rainier Cherries

But there arent many fruits that I dont enjoy

Watermelon
Pomergranits (Sp?)
Bing Cherries

Oh, and Custard Apples. I have asked before, but does anyone know where to find them in Boston?

Any prepared melons served in Thailand. Especially the pineapple, watermelon, honeydew and cantaloupe. The best. Only one month to go for my daily fix there.

Huckleberries, now called Bilberrys for the circulation in the retina of the eye to prevent Macular Degeneration and Vitreous Retinopathy.
ANy of the other RED, BLUE, and PURPLE berries for the reasons above. THey all contain Phytochemicals that prevent cancer, promote healing and circulation, and repair and rebuild the body!

Fuji apples.
Home grown organic oranges. Picked just before juicing.
Homegrown organic ruby red grapefruit fresh picked in the morning.
In the summer, BEEFSTEAK TOMATOES home grown in organic soil for salad greens with organic Tuscan Olive oil and Modena organic balsamic vinegar. Still have some growning on the vines and some picked today.

HMMMMM! THe taste of these tomatoes make you understand why they are called a fruit. Unlike store hothouse bought tomatoes!!!

ice cold, "yellow meat" watermelon (in addition to most of the forementioned)

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Like Sweet Willie, almost anything in season, but especially:

Pears
Mangoes
Peaches
Tomatoes (okay,okay, but technically a fruit)
Blueberries
Papayas

Red gold nectarines from Goldbud Farms. Every year around Father's Day, I start bugging the owner of Monterey Market in Berkeley about their deliveries from Goldbud. These are the nectarines of everyone's childhood; they taste the way I remember them tasting. I always buy a case and eat myself stupid. I only give away singles to the people I really, really like.
Goldbud used to have stands at some of the farmers' markets in the area, but now I can't even get them to ship direct by the case.

Royal blenheim apricots, the little ugly ones that taste so good and look so awful.

Green zebra and mortgage lifter, heirloom variety tomatoes.

The little, sweet yellow seedless Texas watermelons.

And in winter, pink lady apples and the enormous dried French prunes and Austrialian candied apricots.

Does anyone know where to find the very large, royal purple prune plums(cling-frees)that don't seem to be around anymore?? The variety name is something like royal.