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Title: What's your favorite fruit?
Post by: Lise on Aug 22 08 09:18
Like the kinda fruit you wouldn't get sick of eating all day? Mine would be blueberries.
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Post by: Michel on Aug 22 08 09:37
   
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Post by: 49er on Aug 22 08 11:48
banana & papaya..........and yes I still have all my teeth
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Post by: Gopher on Aug 23 08 11:14
Cherries
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 23 08 01:41
It's a toss up between watermelon or raspberries.  
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Post by: Gopher on Aug 24 08 10:49
Thanks for reminding me, PC. I'll change my favourite to raspberries (with cheries and peaches following in that order).
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 24 08 10:57
Cherries are up there on my list too.  And grapes.  The kind that 'crack' when you bite them.
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Post by: Lil Me on Aug 24 08 12:00
Mangoes, oranges, berries.  
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Post by: purelife on Aug 25 08 08:41
cherries and berries
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Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 25 08 09:03
peaches and strawberries.

 
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Post by: Lil Me on Aug 25 08 02:02
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 Anyone for a Carmen Miranda hat?
   
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Post by: Van on Aug 25 08 06:14
pears, peaches, apples, bananas, grapes, strawberries, honeydew, watermelon, just to name a few.
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 25 08 09:05
Oo, oo,   nectarines and kiwis are right up there too.

  I'd put apples on the top of my list if I could get my hands on some Gravensteins.
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Post by: Lil Me on Aug 25 08 09:07
Gravenstein?  Like the monster that you build in your basement?  
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 25 08 09:09
The Gravenstein monster ?  
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Post by: Lil Me on Aug 25 08 09:11
brother of Frankenstein.  
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 25 08 09:14
[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c008.gif" border=0]  Oh RIGHT, right, right, right.  The story begins when Johnny Appleseed decides to cross over into medicine.  It's always been his life long pie in the sky dream.  
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Post by: Lil Me on Aug 25 08 09:20
lol  
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 25 08 09:25
Have you ever had those Lil Me ?  They are without a doubt the best apples in the apple family.  Of course I was spoiled, and used to eat them right off the tree.  I suppose most fruit right off the vine would take a front seat to what we get in the grocers.

  *my mouth is watering just thinking of them.  They are hard to get....although there are a couple people who show up at the early fall local markets who have them.  
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Post by: Lil Me on Aug 25 08 09:27
I have not.  I could probably find some this fall at Urban Fare or Whole Foods, though.  I shall ask my mother to be on the lookout.  She shops at the Granville Island market and the yuppie grocery stores.
 
   
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Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 25 08 09:29
 I never understood how Johnny Appleseed could survive without shoes. Just like George Washington and his cherry tree because he was the incarnation of Jesus.

(seriously they were all whacked out on opium back then, the capitol rotunda has Washington as a god like figure taking us to heaven) (although the rotunda wasn't built until the civil war)

   
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 25 08 09:31
I'd get myself over to the Granville Island market if that was the only place I could get them. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

  There was a fellow last year at the farmers market that overheard me asking for them.....and he said to 'come on over'....got tons.  I never went, but I wish I could remember his name.  
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Post by: Lil Me on Aug 25 08 09:33
Maybe he liked you and the apples were just a ploy?  
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 25 08 09:37
I pondered the possibility....and wondered what I might have to do for a bushel of Gravensteins.  THAT wasn't what stopped me  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/g038.gif" border=0]....I think we were on our way out of town for the week.
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Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 25 08 09:37
Cuz he liked them apples.

 
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Post by: Lil Me on Aug 25 08 09:39
 P.C. wrote:
I pondered the possibility....and wondered what I might have to do for a bushel of Gravensteins.
 --
 You might have to go to the basement and look at his monster.
 
 
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 25 08 09:44
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Post by: Michel on Aug 25 08 09:48
     
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 25 08 09:52
I think she may really be talking about his zoom.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a090.gif" border=0]  
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Post by: Michel on Aug 25 08 09:54
     
     
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Post by: Lise on Aug 26 08 05:53
Uhm.... several hours later, teh Lise is stumped by who the heck is Johnny Appleseed..........
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Post by: Sportsdude on Aug 26 08 06:36
American folklore and pioneer.
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 26 08 06:54
[FONT size=+1]Johnny Appleseed was a legendary American who planted and supplied apple trees to much of the US. Many people think that Johnny Appleseed was fictional character, but he was a real person. Born in 1774 as John Chapman.

 I had a Johnny Appleseed story book when I was a kid....one of my favourites.  Pictures of JA were depicted with him wearing a pot for a hat.  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

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Post by: Van on Aug 26 08 07:52
Is Moosehead beer considered a fruit?    
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Post by: P.C. on Aug 26 08 07:55
Hahaha.  I think it's a vegetable....although some might consider it a meat.
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Post by: Lil Me on Aug 26 08 08:26
I'm of the opinion that beer is a vegetable.  Except Guinness, which is a full meal.  
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Post by: Michel on Aug 26 08 08:35
   
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Post by: Orik on Dec 06 08 12:52
first favorite is the Chinese pear aka the oriental pear sometimes called the ya pear.
 the white and the brown
i love the white just a little bit more
thought the brown tends to be sweeter...

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[p style="text-align: left;"][img style="width: 223px; height: 222px;" src="vny!://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/asianpear.jpg" border="0"][/p]     [a name="Asian_pear"][/a]Asian pear = apple pear = Japanese pear = Chinese pear = Oriental pear = sand pear = nashi = nashi pear = salad pear  Notes:         Asian pears are crunchy, juicy, and very fragrant.  Growers produce over twenty different varieties in an assortment of sizes and colors.   They're often served raw, but they can also be       cooked, though they never become as soft as cooked pears.   Substitutes:        Bosc pear (not as crisp and firm, nor as flowery in flavor) OR apple (different flavor, similar texture) OR quince (for stews or baked dishes)

in the photos above are both version of the white variety of the asian pear.

in second place would be the infamous

black cherry
[img style="width: 156px; height: 212px;" src="vny!://www.1stips.com/images/blackcherry.gif"]
which goes excellent on almost all ice cream but is simply best in vanilla :D
[img style="width: 279px; height: 226px;" src="vny!://www.sunsetbeach.co.za/images/black_cherries_ii_620.jpg"]

and in third spot would be the simple but luscious

navel orange

[img style="width: 165px; height: 165px;" src="vny!://img1.tradeget.com/cetigroup/H6CH7GPC1navel.jpg"]