Monday, February 21, 2011

Currants (red)

So pretty!


So gross.  Currents are bitter and tart.

Maybe they are good in things?


No.  They are apparently delicious as jam, though.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Apple (Jonagold)

Jonagolds!  You are huge.


And crispy.  And applish.


And, did I mention huge?  You are the perfect ferry-snack.


Like backyard apples, but the good kind.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Blood orange

Deceptively orange on the outside...


Suitably bloody on the inside.


Neat!  Except, it tastes just like a regular, bloodless orange.


How disappointing.  Ah well.  More aesthetically pleasing (or freaky) in fruit salads, maybe.



Monday, January 24, 2011

Tangerine

Oh tangerine, what makes you not-an-orange?


Besides being, if possible, more orange than an orange?  You are equally as difficult to peel.


Is it because you are sweeter?  Because of your infinite seeds?


What?

Tastiness:  Sweeter than an orange. Otherwise, exactly like an orange, which is delicious.  So eight.

Ease of Extractability:  See: peel.  See also: seeds.  Five.

Overall nommability:  Forty.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Black Velvet Apricot

Black velvet apricot, hey?


Are you sure you are not just a furry black plum?



Because you look like a furry black plum.  On all sides.



And you taste like a furry black plum.



With maybe a hint of apricot.

Tastiness: The fuzz is, I think, part of the taste, and fuzzy fruit gives me the heebs.  On the other hand, the flesh is delicious - mostly plum with an apricot great-grandsire.  On the other hand, the fuzz.  So, six.

Ease of extraction:  Hold-and-eat, so...easy.  But again with the fuzz.  Maybe if someone peeled it for me.  Plus it sticks to the pit, which I hate.  Five.

Overall nommability: 30

Saturday, May 22, 2010

White Nectarine

White nectarine!

You look like a regular nectarine.


You taste like a regular nectarine wearing too much perfume, and coated in sugar.


Also, you are difficult to get off the pit.



Tastiness: 5. I'm a sucker for nectarines, but this was waaaaaaaay less nectariney than it was just sweet.
Ease of extraction: 6. Hold-and-eat, but I hate fruits that don't come cleanly from the pit.
Overall nommability: 30. I will stick to regular nectarines, methinks.



Friday, May 14, 2010

Fuzzy Melon

What is your deal, fuzzy melon?
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Despite the shoddy photo evidence, you are fuzzy.
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But the internet can't decide if you are a fruit or a vegetable, sweet or not sweet.
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You are straight-up a cucumber. How is that hard, internet?
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Tastiness: I guess this depends on how much you like cucumber? I'm sort of coming around to them, so four.
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Extractability: Seven! Just peel and eat!
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Overall nommability: Twenty-eight! That sounds about right for a non-fruit fruit.
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(PS It's a melon so I'm counting it.)