I grew up surrounded by orchards and farms. The best fruit, melon, strawberries, whatever. The fruit in stores is shit. It’s all bred to survive shipping snd have as long a shelf life as possible, all at the expense of texture and flavor.
No wonder people don’t like fruit. It’s hard, sour, waxed, bruised, bland, dried out, etc. It‘s shit.
Unless you happen to live someplace where the local fruit can be picked and shipped right to the store in season - assuming the store doesn‘t ship in their fruit by contract anyway.
I didn’t think I liked tomatoes. And then I had the greatest tomato ever. Nothing has even come close
Growing tomatoes might help. It’s super fun… Its like gambling except with your time. Will I have bushels of the most amazing tomatoes ever? Will I have just one good tomatoe and a bunch that didn’t ripen properly? Will all the pants get blight and you only get like some halves of usable tomatoes.
That plum still haunts my every living moments
There is literally nothing like plums directly off the tree. I feel like a fucking glutton during plum season. My own greed sickens me
sickens me
It’s probably all those plums.
Shame is the true enemy. You evolved to laze in a tree and eat fruit, not sit in a cubicle. Indulge the great ape
The food you buy in supermarkets is usually not the best tasting food. It’s more likely to be optimised for shelf stability and price than taste - so fruit will be pulled off the plant before it’s ripe so that it won’t spoil before it gets to you.
Letting your fruit ripen at home before eating it helps, but growing your own is the best way to eat tasty things.
Not all of us can grow peach trees
Take your passive aggressiveness away please.
Neither can I.
Was that passive aggressive?? Didnt mean anything beyond trees are hard to grow at home
Plus if you have to move a lot your efforts will never bare fruit.
This is why it would be hard for me to make a fruit tier list. I think you need to have 2 lists, a list for each fruit at mid and a list for each fruit at its best. For example, I tend to eat apples, strawberries, or grapefruits pretty regularly even when they are not at their best because I still enjoy them at mid so in my mind they would be top of the mid list. But something like a peach or a pineapple will be at the top of the other list even though I probably won’t eat them at mid. I have a simple rule for peaches which is if I am in the store and I can smell them, I have to buy them. Works every time and I get damn good peaches that way. I’ve always wanted to try a fresh peach off a tree and I imagine it’s like fruit heroin.
We used to buy fresh peaches roadside when on vacation and driving through Georgia. They were delicious. I don’t know if roadside stands still have the same quality these days, but they’ve gotta be better than chain grocery stores.
When I was young, we had family friends with a small peach orchard. So each year would always get a couple of bushels of tree fresh peaches.
The OP is spot on. I’ve never had a peach come close to how amazing they were.
But to your point, there was still a variance among those peaches too. However that was 95% to do with how ripe they were.
It became a game in our family on timing the peaches peak ripeness. You had to balance on how close you wanted it to get against if someone else might eat it first.
Apples… there’s so much variety. Different types. Even in shops, but it gets crazy when you sample (local) trees.
Around here, there’s many former gardens with apple trees growing wild long after the (wooden) house has all but vanished, which is where I get apples in autumn. Often each tree is of a different variety, and to call it all “apple” and be done with it would be - unrealistic.
Same with peaches I guess? They don’t grow here and there isn’t much variety in the shops, but I always prefer the “classic” round ones with yellow flesh. Best taste, and dripping juice is a must.
Fruits and vegetables in general. 90% of my baby carrots are worse than that one I had that one time.
I’ve never found pears or oranges that taste nearly as good as my memory of their taste.
Many of the cacti that produce dragonfruit are surprisingly easy to grow and bloom and can even make pretty decent houseplants for those who live in areas without a tropical climate. I don’t know about your specific situation or the finer details of the one amazing dragonfruit you had, but like so many things, home grown and fresh harvested dragonfruit usually tastes better than store bought. Just a thought, but if you haven’t already considered it, maybe give it a try and grow your own. It’ll probably be a few years (or more), but better than waiting a lifetime.
For anyone trying to grow dragonfruit, the plant is a cactus, but it doesn’t grow like a typical cactus. It grows like a vine, climbing surfaces with aerial roots.
Also unlike a typical cactus, it needs a ton of water. We’re talking daily watering in the summer months. You can even grow it hydroponically.
plenty of good peaches are out there to be had.
eating them conveniently during the day instead of setting specific fruit eating time, now that’s the challenge.
Also, Stamets, just substitute for kiwi fruit; they are basically the same but more intense.
You have to get a peach that was allowed to ripen on the tree and eat it as fresh as possible to get that experience consistently. I never knew how good a peach could be until I visited the Okanagan for the first time.
My grandmother had an apricot tree in her backyard. I have never had any apricots nearly as good as those were.
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Me too, friend. Me too.
Also: Kiwi fruits
Years ago I read “Mexico” by James Mitchener and he wrote something similar about bullfights.
He said you had to watch a thousand bad bull fights before you saw a really good one.
And I’ve never even watched a video of a real bull fight, so don’t tell me how inhumane they are.
Seems similar to football/soccer matches. Back when I still watched them, most were boring af, including stuff like Champions League finals. But the matches that were good, oh boy!
Anecdote.
Joe Dimaggio was one of the all time great Yankees. One year, late in the season, he’s playing a meaningless game; the team is already assured of playing in the post season. Joe is playing outfield and the batter shoots a rocket past him. He runs like a demon and makes a fantastic leap to make the play. One of his team mates asks him why he’s playing so hard when the season is over.
“Someone in the stands traveled here and paid good money to see me play. This might be the only time they see me, and I want them to be able to say that they saw Joe DiMaggio at his best.”
Love the attitude! Though IME, a lot of the time boring matches don’t happen because the players don’t put in effort, but because of the teams’ tactics (e.g. because both teams are playing defensively).
Same experience. But I got another one. It wasn’t one from the next supermarket, it was one from a real streetmarket, highly overpriced, but worth it.
For me it was a random fruit stand in Rome.
