oranges aren't the only fruit

team47b

I know in this age of all year round fruit availability the simple pleasure of for example the first strawberry of the year is no longer there but today I picked off a tree my (well it was mine seconds after I climbed the neighbour's fence!) first orange of the year, it was really juicy and sweet.

What would be the fruit you would most look forward to?

(No Aggieboy the answer is not cake)

raymondo60

Very jealous! Oh to live in a climate like that!

Pomegranates! Remember picking them off the tree in Andalucia many years ago - nothing tastes better than fruit that fresh!

Yossie

Pork scratchings - fruit of Champions.

Cleat Eastwood

haha went to Faro and seen the orange treelined streets - took one expected a cakehole full of sweetness....nooooo...they were bitter as anything. Peas are great freshly picked, lovely flavour.

kieranb

freshly baked fruitcake with a thick layer of real butter spread over it. Available all year round.

MaxwellBygraves

I remember picking peaches off a tree in Portugal - absolutely delicious!! Oh to be back.

daviesee

I susspect that pilferred friut always tastes better.
Forbidden fruit and all that.....

Anonymous

Fresh corn on the cob, picked and cooked with salt and butter within 5 minutes from the local Mennonite farmer in Belize. 19 years on and I still smile at the memory, me and my mates teabag and Kev having a boil up at the side of the road whilst on Patrol.

Redhog14

Wild Blackberries from the lane to my house, sometimes in late summer the journey home from the pub takes ages and my fingers are all black.. when you are a bit pissed the thorns don't seem to be so much bother

Aggieboy

team47b wrote:

I know in this age of all year round fruit availability the simple pleasure of for example the first strawberry of the year is no longer there but today I picked off a tree my (well it was mine seconds after I climbed the neighbour's fence!) first orange of the year, it was really juicy and sweet.

What would be the fruit you would most look forward to?

(No Aggieboy the answer is not cake)

Bacons.

verylonglegs

Made some tomato soup once with some fresh tomatoes grown by my folks...was absolutely incredible. So good in fact I can't eat the canned/processed stuff ever again, I'd rather go without as it won't be anywhere near as good.

Aggieboy

The fruit of the God's is mango. I actually get withdrawal symptoms if I don't eat them regularly.

graham.

Got to be the first ripe Strawberry off the allotment...Picked when they'er ready to be eaten, not when they'er ready to be sent half way around the world.

Kendal Black Drop

Redhog14 wrote:

Wild Blackberries from the lane....

Yes. Blackberries eaten straight after picking, or even better taken home and used to make blackberry and apple pie (with puff pastry). Also, fresh wild strawberries straight out of the garden.

term1te

Cherries from the old tree in the garden of our house when we lived in Maidenhead. But the pears from our current garden are a pretty close second, third would have to be the victoria plums my grandfather grew in Swanage.

LeicesterLad

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

haha went to Faro and seen the orange treelined streets - took one expected a cakehole full of sweetness....nooooo...they were bitter as anything. Peas are great freshly picked, lovely flavour.

mmmmmmmm Sugarsnap straight from the plant. I'm a big fan of Mingetoo.

CambsNewbie

Can't beat the first chocolate orange of the Christmas season! And one of my five a day!

RideOnTime

rrrrrr Portugal!!! not Manchester.

Pross

More of a veg man myself, stayed at my friend's aunt's house in Donegal once and it had a massive vegetable patch. Every evening we would be out picking Donegal spuds and carrots which would be on the plate half an hour later. I've never tasted potatoes better than those.

natrix

Wild strawberries, they're like a taste explosion in your mouth!!

Incidentally, the Greek police have picked all the oranges off the trees in some public square as they were worried that demonstraters would throw them at the politicians (hmm, wonder if they eat them all............)

team47b

RideOnTime wrote:

rrrrrr Portugal!!! not Manchester.

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Is this about football*?






*this is a genuine question and any deep/meaningful/sarcastic connection implied in my question to any real or imaginary event is purely coincidental

cyco2

On a ride through the Almenac region of France I needed to stock up on food and some fruit. I also need a stop and found myself in a vine yard. With nobody about I cut off a few bunches of grapes and filled my bar bag. Those grapes were juicy, delicious and kept me going for 2 days. I still feel guilty about it.

nevman

+1 for wild Alpine strawberries-food of the Gods IMO
And walnuts from the tree.