This might also help people find better versions of fruits they may not otherwise enjoy
I suppose I am a basic bitch - Honeycrisp apples, Mission figs (fresh), haas avocados and the wee golden Champagne mangoes are the best IMO.
Oranges, though? Valencia or tangelos are flavorful, the navel oranges are bland nonsense.
Pink Lady apples. Perfect balance of sweet and tart for me.
Came here to say this! Beautifully crisp too. I hate most red apples for how soft they can be and how grainy they can feel sometimes. Maybe I’ve had ones at the wrong side of ripe, but pink ladies are the perfect hybrid of green and red. I used to love Macintoshes for this but pink ladies are much better
Oh man yeah, didn’t even think about the texture. Gonna go get one at lunch time now.
Oh yeah, although the kanzi apples can be better sometimes.
Never heard of those. “a cross between a Gala and a Braeburn” sounds fantastic. Just got to find one now.
Ambrosia apples (the big ripe ones, not the small ones that I could swear are counterfeit Gala).
Ataulfo mangoes. Yellow. Small. Delicious.
Spanish mandarin oranges. Easy to peel, delicious. Other oranges can’t hold shade to this one.
Forelle pears. Fragrant, juicy… Bartlett pears will seem like cardboard after having these.
Sungold kiwi. Not only are they sweet, but the skin is thinner and has no hairs, so you can just wash them and eat them whole.
Fuji apples
Care Care oranges
Largish yellow raisins. I like them in oatmeal cookies and with mixed nuts cooked in a nice long grain rice with some saffron.
Pink Lady apples or bust
I bust for the pink lady
Honeycrisp or fuji apples. Cara cara oranges. Meyer lemons. Still undecided on the cotton candy grapes.
I’m on Team Honeycrisp 100%, even though they always cost more.
IIRC the University of Minnesota’s patent expired a few years ago. I can usually get them for the same price as fujis and pink ladies.
Granny Smith apples. They have intense flavor and solid crispness, unlike other variety vaguely sweet mushy apples. Most importantly, they’re still good out of season.
Every year I go wild with variety for 1-2 month, then return to Grannies for the rest of the year
Absolutely. Love Granny Smith.
I like cosmic crisp apples.
Same. They’ve replaced Pink Ladies as my favorite. The texture and perfect amount of sweetness make them such a joy!
Being from FL, I’m a snob about FL oranges. Particularly navels and blood varieties. California oranges can fuck right off.
Green apples.
Red kiwi, they taste better.
Chuoi cau bananas (monkey banana) from Vietnam. It didn’t really matter what type I had over there, they beat any banana I’d had thru my entire life.
Thomcord grapes (Thompson x Concord hybrid) are amazing. They taste like grape jelly if grape jelly wasn’t sickly sweet. They’ve also got a mild tart bite to them that I love. I can never find them anywhere most of the time but I always snatch one up when I see it.
Golden delicious apples. I don’t even consider others, although tbf, their taste does vary a little, depending on where I bought them.
As a former Golden delicious stan, may I suggest trying honey crisp? Now there are two apples I prefer and I get a little variety
I’ll certainly keep an eye out for them. Thanks.
