as long as i can remember, i've always liked bananas. i remember playing hide and seek with my siblings and cousins, and i remember always hiding in my grandparents' store room.
why the store room?
inside it are rice grains, corn, and other fresh produce from our farm like dalandan, jackfruit, guavas, and bananas.
while hiding, i would be gobbling some bananas, sometimes finishing as many as ten.
yes, ten!!
i remember my cousins comparing me to a monkey - the proverbial banana-eating animal...
while i was reviewing for the bar exams, i was sustained by bananas. when i took the law exams in new south wales (sydney), i was again propelled by this wonder fruit.
my love for bananas sometimes worries me. but i always look in the mirror and thankfully see that i'm far from looking like a monkey.... ;-)
quidnunc posted on Sep 18, 2006
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labyrinth said on Sep 18, 2006....
It's cherries for me. I love it and I love it! But I also love other fruits such as pears and kiwi.
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silverwhisper said on Sep 18, 2006....
my all-time two favorite fruit are persimmons and asian pears. for persimmons, i favor the hachiya to the more readily-available fuyu. there's something about the richness of the flavor and the sweetness...mm...
for asian pears: they have the flavor and juiciness of other pears but the consistency of an apple.
sadly, these fruits are not generally available in the US except during their respective season. they are not yet popular enough to warrant round-the-year cultivation, evidently.
ed
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quidnunc said on Sep 18, 2006....
silver, speaking of persimmons, have you tried the suruga variety? i'm told that it's the sweetest among permissons but i have no way to confirm it as i have not tried the others.
asian pears are such a refreshing treat. its juiciness always captivates me.
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quidnunc said on Sep 18, 2006....
lab, sorry i inadvertently skipped your comment. i love cherries, too.
i remember driving to Canberra a few years back. mrs quid and i bought some cherries along the way, and boy, did we enjoy the ride, the scenery, and the cherries!
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silverwhisper said on Sep 18, 2006....
i'm utterly unfamiliar w/ suruga persimmons...ah, i see it's a nonastringent variety. i prefer the astringent varieties: somehow, the anticipation of waiting for them to ripen properly is the most delicious of seasonings, i find.
ed
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quidnunc said on Sep 18, 2006....
i should try the hachiya or the fuyu. i just might get the chance to go to the U.S. next month (if the scheduled business trip will materialize)... i hope it is in season.
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silverwhisper said on Sep 18, 2006....
if you try a hachiya, i urge you to seek assistance in identifying when the fruit is fully ripened--otherwise, you will greatly regret your choice. :>
ed
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quidnunc said on Sep 18, 2006....
oh, thanks for that important tip. i will keep that in mind.
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JadeLondon said on Sep 18, 2006....
I love bananas best. (They are a wonderful cure all for a number of ailments, too.)
Pineapples and strawberries are also a passion. And peaches: 'millions of peaches--peaches for me!'
Speaking of persimmoms, my ladylady gave me part of one to try just last week, as well as two others to ripen. I found them very reminscent of an apricot, but not as strongly flavored, and juicier.
She told me if I walked about the property and really looked around, I could also find those, an avocado tree, and a grapefruit tree (which was the only one I was aware).
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quidnunc said on Sep 18, 2006....
yes, bananas is a reach source of potassium. i heard that patients diagnosed with potassium-deficiency are required to eat a lot of this wonder fruit.
avocado...hmmm, i'm reminded of my favorite avocado ice cream!
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rmuxagirl said on Sep 18, 2006....
I would have to say strawberries. Their so sweet and juicy and taste great with sugar...and i can easily feed my signficant other one ;) (although I don't have one atm *tear*).
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secretlife said on Sep 18, 2006....
I love oranges! Navel oranges are my favorite.
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LayaMaria said on Sep 18, 2006....
I can positively be a pig about mangoes. Ripe, juicy yellow mangoes. Fuji apples, the kind that's so juicy the juice spurts out when you bite into it. I can demolish more than a kilo of grapes in one sitting (usually at Christmas). Lanzones...(I don't think you can get lanzones in other countries!) I can easily demolish a kilo of lanzones in one sitting as well.
JL:I can be a hog about peaches, too (because they are so rare here!).
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mr_right14 said on Sep 18, 2006....
There are such fact that:
"Eating banana a day keeps the doctor away"
Yes I said it straight...banana not apple.
I'll find it and share it with you...nah, where is it? I've just placed it somewhere....
For me...I like grapes.
I can vanish a kilo of it in one sitting. Just like LayaMaria.
Though it gives me a li'l dizziness afterwards.
Yet, grapes will be my favorite.
Specially the wine! Kanpai!!!
quid
Don't worry, eating bananas prevents pimples...
Have you ever seen a monkey with a pimple on its face?
Mr_RiGhT
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boyzmom said on Sep 18, 2006....
For me all fruit in moderation is a treat, even tomatoes. I do not believe I have had persimmons though, but I lived next door to an orchard that grew asian pears (yum). I like berries, melons and plums also. How to choose a favorite?
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JadeLondon said on Sep 18, 2006....
Quidnunc: Avocado ice cream. I know it is something we have discussed previously, but I guess it is one of those things that I'll just have to try. Although where that might be, I am not certain. Maybe I should go abroad. :)
Well, I suppose if I looked hard enough, there might be the slim chance of finding it where I live. There is quite a bit of cultural diversity.
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gingersoul said on Sep 18, 2006....
I am crazy in this order for:
cherry,
blueberry
strawberry
watermelon
cantaloupe
bananas
grapes (red wine counts as fruit, right? LOL)
pears
peaches
I eat lots of fruit each day...
I don't like avocado and mango, while apple is a kind of serious fruit that i use in many way when i cook, the Golden ones are my favorites.
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quidnunc said on Sep 18, 2006....
**a banana a day keeps the doctors away**
or we can also say,
"a banana a day is seven bananas in a week" hahaha!
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quidnunc said on Sep 18, 2006....
jade, Filipino ice cream makers produce the best avocado ice cream. you can check if it's available in your local asian store.
rmuxagirl, secretlife, layamaria, boyzmom, mr_right, and ginger, thank you for sharing your fruity passions...
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RollingC said on Sep 18, 2006....
I've liked just about every fruit that I've tried...although there's lots that are still waiting for me to try them. I've heard that there's a fruit in Asia that is so smelly that it will make you gag but it's soooo good. It's supposed to taste as good as it smells bad... I believe I'd like to try that one day. As far as my favorite...I'd have to say banana. There's about 40 different commercial varieties of bananas. One is the Apple banana which is smaller than the Johnson(Chiquita) variety and extremely sweet and good...I practically grew up on that one. The other I know as the Hawaiian banana, which is like the Apple banana only better in that you can also cook it different ways.... fried bananas is a staple of the Caribbean food list...
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quidnunc said on Sep 18, 2006....
RollingC, i guess you're referring to durian... it really smells bad but tastes so good! it grows in the southern part of the Philippines...
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RollingC said on Sep 18, 2006....
I'd also like to try Jackfruit but haven't had the chance. Chirimoya is a delicious fruit but slim chance of getting it here in the States...I particularly like the Peruvian variety.
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quidnunc said on Sep 18, 2006....
jackfruits are so yummy, too. i haven't tried chirimoya though. like you, there are still a lot of fruits i need to explore and actually taste...
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ninibud92 said on Sep 18, 2006....
blueberries! It is a recent favorite. Just found out how much I liked them last year!
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00purple666 said on Sep 18, 2006....
mmmm Cherries are definately my favourite
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mr_right14 said on Sep 18, 2006....
quid
Did I forget to say mangosteen?
I dunno if that's available in other countries.
Kinda costy but the tastes suits enough for big bucks.
Mr_RiGhT
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totally_cd said on Sep 18, 2006....
hi quid!
i have a montly favorite fruit(in the tropics, we can afford it!)
january - bananas
february - melons/honey dew
march - watermelon
april - definitely mangoes
may - our citrus dalanghita
june - papaya
july - guavas
august - durian
september - lanzones
october - pomelo
november - mangosteen
december - strawberries
cd
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RollingC said on Sep 18, 2006....
One thing that I've been meaning to do but never did...buy what used to be called a fruit salad tree....it's a citrus tree that you can actually go to the nursery and make to order...
has to be a tree of same family....like citrus for instance..and
get them (they sometimes have them made already if the
demand is high enough) to graft Oranges, Grapefruit, Lemon, Tangerine on the same tree....not as easy as it sounds because you have to know which variety grows faster so the tree is balanced as it grows...then from the same tree you can have different (but of the same family) fruit....
of course you have to say order this year so maybe by next year or so he can have it ready for you...not as simple as it sounds but it has been done.
Different varieties of mango trees produce fruit at different times of the year....so you can get a mango tree grafted with the different varieties so it gives fruit all year...
The things they are doing with agriculture nowadays is really fascinating (I used to be a Citrus Inspector)
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jhanok said on Sep 18, 2006....
I like avocado.
But now i am always craving for papaya,maybe because it just a part of my pregnancy.but as far as i remembered i used to like papaya when i was still a kid.
I also fond of eating babanas this past few week,maybe because i need to eat fruits & bananas are the cheapest fruit in our canteen.lolz.& that my friend said that if you eat bananas during pregnancy it would have a greater posibility that your baby is a boy,but of course it is God who decides it first,according to her she read it from a magazine.
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angstywin said on Sep 18, 2006....
i've always been a banana girl. the dinner table won't be complete without bananas on it. everytime my mother would go to the market, bananas are always part of the food basket she's brought home.
this goes without saying that we are a banana family. my titas, titos, cousins all eat the fruit, whether it be boiled, fried, sweetened or what have you. or just plain ripe banana.
nevertheless, i will never forgo our native mangga, lanzones (it's this fruit's season!), pinya, rambutan, duhat, pomelo/suha. and i salivate just thinking about them... yum!
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Zayda said on Sep 18, 2006....
I love blueberries, pineapple, cherries, asian pears, and granny smith apples.
There is just something about the sweet tart pop of a blueberry. I think one of the reasons I like them is that I can eat them by the handful. And well, I like blueberries and pineapple together or blueberries and asian pears together
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zelmarq said on Sep 18, 2006....
my favorite fruit is banana, well I have read that there are many amazing facts about bananas..... here the Philippines there are lots of fruits name it all, durian, mangosteen, jack fruit, mangoes, rambutan, lanzones, avocado, pine apple, and a lot more. My second favorite is durian it may not smell that good but I tell you its really good.
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rarity121 said on Sep 18, 2006....
is that a banana in your pocket?
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rarity121 said on Sep 18, 2006....
is that a banana in your pocket?
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rockyracoon said on Sep 19, 2006....
apparently, most of us are banana freak!
Me too, is a banana boy! :)
Banana's saved my life by the way... how?
see My Bananas Here
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quidnunc said on Sep 19, 2006....
nini, my wife loves blueberries. it's her favorite. she also loves blueberry cheesecake!
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quidnunc said on Sep 19, 2006....
purple, i always associate cherries with my memorable drive from sydney to canberra a few years ago.
mr_right, mangosteen is not much of my favorite, but my sister seems to love them so much...
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quidnunc said on Sep 19, 2006....
hi cd! so you're having lanzones nowadays!! i love lanzones from laguna and siquijor...
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quidnunc said on Sep 19, 2006....
RollingC: citrus inspector eh? that sounds exciting! i must confess i have not heard about the fruit salad tree... is it still available? where?
hi preggy jhanok! yes, you must eat lots of fruits nowadays. it's good for your health, and the health of your baby!
angstywin & zelmarq - like me, you both are also going bananas!
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quidnunc said on Sep 19, 2006....
rocky and rarity: let's all join angstywin and zelmarq and have a banana session...
rocky, i have yet to read the link that you've provided...
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quidnunc said on Sep 19, 2006....
hi rocky, i just read your "banana" post... thanks for sharing your triumph over potassium deficiency (sorry i missed that one when you posted it)... banana is indeed a wonder fruit.
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sigroid75 said on Sep 19, 2006....
hello everyrone! i'm back.
it's mangoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and mangoes in whatever form.
chutney, piaya, jam, dried, chips, in california maki,
etc. etc.
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quidnunc said on Sep 19, 2006....
hi sig! kumusta ka?
yes, i love mangoes too. i usually slice mangoes into tiny pieces and, don't laugh, mix it with my Nido milk... this was when i was in high school...
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Alyss said on Sep 19, 2006....
I love the taste and texture of a ripe pear. There's nothing quite like biting into one for a taste sensation, the juice escaping and dripping all over my fingers and down my chin.
Raspberries are particularly tasty too. The bright pink, plump fruits beckoning to be picked, slightly soft between the fingers and then the flavour exploding into my mouth.
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quidnunc said on Sep 19, 2006....
Alyss, i must be feeling sexy today. but you depicted fruit-eating as a rather erotic, stimulating, and sensual experience... good one!
;-)
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RollingC said on Sep 19, 2006....
Rarity...that reminds me of Mae West (actress) - "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" but a banana will do the part also...hahaha.
Quid- Those trees are available upon demand...you just have to find a nursery that knows how to graft trees that all.
A nursery owner in S.Fla. liked bananas so much, not only did he have about 20 different varieties but he wrote and published a banana book that explained the different types and how to care for them, cook them...etc.
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quidnunc said on Sep 19, 2006....
Rolling, thank you for the information. a banana book? i have to get one!
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Alyss said on Sep 19, 2006....
quidnunc; it wasn't intentional but on reading it back I see what you mean! My first piece of erotica...
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quidnunc said on Sep 19, 2006....
yes, your first piece... and what a brilliant one!
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totally_cd said on Sep 22, 2006....
hi quid!
it is only today that i remember the name of this woderful fruit from nueva ecija. pirantes or perantes. it is similar to pomelo but sweeter and juicier. i like this fruit.
totally_cd
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mr_right14 said on Sep 22, 2006....
hey totally_cd
Do you know this fruit, what we commonly call as alateris?
I'd like to add on my favorite fruits' list:
Grapes
Mangosteen
Starfruit - we commonly call this as Balimbing, kinda rare now
Mr_RiGhT
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totally_cd said on Sep 22, 2006....
balimbing, rare? come on! there are lots of balimbing (star fruit) nowadays! sa senado na lang!
i've seen a mangosteen farm in davao.
and the alateris is one of the sweetest and smallest fruits we have. libre pa!
totally_cd
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mr_right14 said on Sep 22, 2006....
Hahaha!
quid where are you?
Mr_RiGhT
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quidnunc said on Sep 22, 2006....
hello mga igan...
sorry medyo busy lang now... eto nga sumisilip lang...
ciao!
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mr_right14 said on Sep 22, 2006....
Hello!
I thought you're craving on bananas again.
Oh what's that on your pocket?
Is that a DILDO? Ooopsss
Aaaah its a banana!
Mr_RiGhT
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rarity121 said on Sep 22, 2006....
I stopped eating fruit for a long time, being told that veggies and lean proteins are the only way to go. I love berries though, got to get to Whole Foods manana for some banana!!!
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rarity121 said on Sep 22, 2006....
I stopped eating fruit for a long time, being told that veggies and lean proteins are the only way to go. I love berries though, got to get to Whole Foods manana for some banana!!!
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LayaMaria said on Sep 26, 2006....
Quidnunc: no problem ;)
zelmarq: you like durian?? finally!! someone who does!! for those who can't take the smell raw, there's durian ice cream... not as odorous, but the taste is a dream... it really is! I grew up in durian and mangosteen country so I guess it's not such a big deal for us. Ask my mom... she can demolish two ripe durian in one sitting. I like the durian bars, durian tart and durian ice cream better though. :D
mr right & totally: alateris or aratiles? hehehee... we have a lot of balimbing at home in the province, cause we have a tree beside our front gate! you can eat it plain or slice it and dip it in salt and vinegar.
Does anyone like macopa??
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mr_right14 said on Sep 26, 2006....
Me!!!
I used to eat macopa everyday when I was a kid.
There's a tree from our neighbor and it's so huge and bears this fruit.
You can have this fruit all year long from that tree.
Oh yes yes yes!
Durian Ice Cream...so yummy and creamy.
It's so indulging!
Durian Ice Cream is a taste of pleasure.
Oh no I'm craving for this ice cream...can somebody mop the floor?
I spit all over the place.
I'm drooling in this Ice Cream madness.
ZZZZZZZZZ zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzz
Mr_RiGhT