I'm so tired of these mango clowns, what is wrong with a good old fashioned potato?
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Smh potato’s are tubers not fruits
They are round, tasty parts of a plant, that's a fruit if I've ever seen one
Stop tuber erasure
The definition of fruit is that they bear seeds. It is a biological classification, not a culinary one (like vegetable). Tubers and rhizomes do not bear seeds and are therefore not fruits. You can grow a plant from them, but you can do that with cuttings and those aren’t fruit either. Culinarily, a potato is a vegetable or starch, and still not a fruit.
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Apples are my favourite due to consistency and availability. Other fruits are either hit-or-miss, hard to gauge ripeness, unavailable, or expensive. Sure other fruits might taste better but when I grab an apple I know what I'm getting
As a grower of weird apples, that’s my favourite thing about apples - I don’t know what I’m going to get. Some will be tart as hell others remarkably sweet. Even off the same tree.
But sure a supermarket Granny Smith or pink lady is a homogeneous product, you know what a pink lady tastes like in Thailand, Türkiye or Tuvalu.
Tart apples are performance
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Damn
Pineapple but I don’t know what that says about my true spirit.
Gawd I love Pineapples so much. I can eat them until my mouth begins to dissolve.
Pure of heart
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I really like pears, they're probably less consistent than apples in terms of taste/texture but I don't think I've ever had a pear that I disliked (unless it was badly damaged or old of course). Passion fruit is great in juice/tea (I drank so much passion fruit green tea in Taiwan you have no idea) but I don't necessarily like it as a standalone fruit.
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Hot take: Most fresh fruit is really good so people's favorite is almost always performative. Like you know the strawberry is only there cause it's hello kitty core. For me it's blackberries but that's probably because I could find them wild where I lived so they have a nostalgia buff
This is so true. My dad is a keen gardener and grows like, a dozen? Different fruits. When the figs are ripe they're my favourite. When the grapes are ripe, the muscatels are my favourite (the red seedless are pretty good but can't hold a candle to them). Loquats, in a good year, are my favourite fruit. Likewise plums, raspberries, and mandarins. Genuinely I think my favourite fruit is whatever's good (and that I like) right now.
yeah i'm probably in agreement. my fav is whatever i'm in the mood for.
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Having a performative favorite fruit is like having a Axolotl fursona
what does this mean
They ain't stutter
There is no fruit tastier than a Georgia peach at the peak of ripeness. And that is objective fact. However, I would not rank peaches as the best fruit because they aren't that good outside of that 2 week window during summer.
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What the fuck is a performative fruit preference? Is this an allistic problem I’m too autistic to understand?
I don't think there are people saying their favourite fruit is a strawberry or something, when really they just want to lick durians all day
I wasn't aware that your favourite things had to be "representative of your true spirit" either
Passion Fruit really is my favorite
Such a wonderful flavor, good for drinks and desserts
Even have passion fruit balsamic vinegar that goes really well in a vinaigrette
So, what makes it performative seems to be lower accessibility to the North American Cracker. (H. sapiens genocidus)
A fruit can only become non-performative if you do a coup in Latin America to ensure the flow of treats.
A fruit is neither inherently performance or pure of heart
It is the fruit eater that determines the pureness
You are a very performance person, and it taints all you do, including eating fruit
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I love blackberries. In Portuguese they're called amoras and I like that it's close to amor(love)
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dragon fruit is actually great though; you just gotta get the red variant instead of the white one
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Nice try feds, I won't tell you my favorite fuit
Performance
My partner is big on stone fruit - cherries, peaches, nectarines. I've been into grapes lately. Little known fact, but the best fruit is actually fruit salad
Your partner is performance. Calling it stone fruit is performance.
You are Pure of Heart
ITT people messing up my idea of what my favourite fruit is. I don't think I have one any more tbh
This means your previous favorite fruit was performance
Really? Nobody saying watermelon???
Pure of heart
i had a really good mango recently but usually I say I go for papaya. love pineapple too. and a good apple.
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