Food & Dining Are there any fruits that disappoint you?

I'm having my lunch, I like fruit. But I had 3 plums and they have all been a taste disappointment. No sweetness. What am I doing wrong?


Anyway, my big and important question. Do you eat fruit that regularly disappoints? And what kind of fruit are they? Store bought strawberries used to regularly disappoint when I was a kid, all appearance, no taste. But they seem to have brought the flavour back, restoring my faith in humanity....

 

Mandarins, I have a bad one and won't eat one for a week.
Pineapples are often terrible, always go back and try again.

Planted both in the garden this year so hopefully I can do better.

 

I find stone fruit to be very hit and miss.. after having so many bad plums, necatarines, and apricots I don't bother with them any more..

I love peaches.. nothing like a juicy sweet peach.. drool. I find them easier to tell if they're good or not.

 

• Peaches at the end of the season suck when chalky (in another couple of weeks)
• Apricots, brightly coloured but tasteless at the start of the season
• Green grapes thatare too tart
• Apples which are floury or sour
• Tamarillos
• Grainy custard apples
• Dry passionfruit
• Blood oranges with little internal colour
• Astringent persimmons (when they're ripe)
• Loquats
• Figs unless they're home grown are too often nicer to look at than to eat

 

Must be the season.

I bought plums a few days ago and they are tasteless.
Marg

 

First world problem but I have become accustomed to fruit now made seedless. I won't go near grapes or watermelon that isn't seedless!

 

Apples always chalky

 

Kiwifruits when they go past being firm and tangy and turn soft and over ripe sweet.

 

Usually store fruit is bland at best.

Organic, local producers.... that's where it's at. ....oh sorry, most people live in a major capital city at least 50-100 km from such choice. Regional living has many non $$$ benefits

 

Arnolds in Wodonga rocks!!!

 

I have a client who's a picker, helped him with a very small loan that nobody would give him the time of day.

He's now been dropping off apples to me for a few years, they're amazing picked that morning.

That crunch and taste!!!

 

Strawberries seem to be watery lately! Apricots are always tasteless, so I don't bother. Apples! I'll only eat Pink Lady, as they seem to have more flavour & crunch than others, but even they suck at the end of the season.

 

New age fruit.

 

Nice

 

Just a comment... I hate floury apples too. Apples need to be crunchy!! But Jazz apples... I think they are great.

 

is avocado a fruit? I remember I was about 20 before I tasted one, they seemed so exotic and beautiful and represented, I don't know, everything that a low socio economic upbringing did not include. I cut into it with such anticipation!!!!!!! and it tasted like nothing, and they still taste like nothing, smashed or otherwise.
the best grapes in the world are less than a kilometre away, figs I can help myself to, i agree about crappy apples, the ones in the UK were SO good made me realise I'd been eating crap ones for ages.

 

Disappointing fruit: Some bananas are just not as big as they say they are.

 

I hate apples, but they travel well. Essential for trips to remote communities but always disappointing to me.

 

You can pick apples that are not chalky but it's a skill you need to learn. Throw up an apple a few times and catch it. Listen to the sound it makes your hand. A sharp click means it will be crisp but sour. A dull thud means it will be floury. You want a sound in between the 2 that you can only learn through practice.

 

My disappointment is paw paw. I grow them myself but they are bland.