ok, the stage is set… lets debate!

pomolo said:

CollieWA said:

Love apricots but not a patch on a ripe mango!

Now that’s debatable. There are lots of fruit I like but only at their peak of ripeness and flavour. I don’t eat pineapple but have been known to eat half of a perfect pine. Fortunately or maybe unfortunately, perfect pineapples don’t happen along very often. This is the same for most fruit I eat. Flavour is such a risky thing I don’t buy much more than apples and oranges. Roadside stalls often have the best buys.

All this comes from being spoilt with only the best fruit and veg when I was a child. Dad always brought home the pick of the market.

pomolo is spot on. A perfectly ripe Apricot is pretty bloody good, but one that isn’t quite there is ‘orrible, whereas a perfect Mango is very good and one not quite there is also very good.

pain master said:

ok, the stage is set… lets debate!

pomolo said:

CollieWA said:

Love apricots but not a patch on a ripe mango!

Now that’s debatable. There are lots of fruit I like but only at their peak of ripeness and flavour. I don’t eat pineapple but have been known to eat half of a perfect pine. Fortunately or maybe unfortunately, perfect pineapples don’t happen along very often. This is the same for most fruit I eat. Flavour is such a risky thing I don’t buy much more than apples and oranges. Roadside stalls often have the best buys.

All this comes from being spoilt with only the best fruit and veg when I was a child. Dad always brought home the pick of the market.

pomolo is spot on. A perfectly ripe Apricot is pretty bloody good, but one that isn’t quite there is ‘orrible, whereas a perfect Mango is very good and one not quite there is also very good.

All fruit should be ripe when eaten.

it is silly to encourage those who pick green fruit and send it to market.

I don’t buy pineapples or mangoes or bananas.. etc because they don’t grow here and I cannot pick them fresh.

I’m having some chopped apricots on my porridge, bluddy beautiful.

My taste buds are telling me to grow an apricot tree. Prob is I want an almond tree too and only have room for one more tree..

Happy Potter said:

I’m having some chopped apricots on my porridge, bluddy beautiful.

My taste buds are telling me to grow an apricot tree. Prob is I want an almond tree too and only have room for one more tree..

An almond and an apricot can be budded onto the same rootstock.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

I’m having some chopped apricots on my porridge, bluddy beautiful.

My taste buds are telling me to grow an apricot tree. Prob is I want an almond tree too and only have room for one more tree..

An almond and an apricot can be budded onto the same rootstock.

Oh yeah ?? You have my full attention now and I’m in sudden good mood! lol Where do I get such a tree ?

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

I’m having some chopped apricots on my porridge, bluddy beautiful.

My taste buds are telling me to grow an apricot tree. Prob is I want an almond tree too and only have room for one more tree..

An almond and an apricot can be budded onto the same rootstock.

that’s what I was gonna say.

pain master said:

ok, the stage is set… lets debate!

pomolo said:

CollieWA said:

Love apricots but not a patch on a ripe mango!

Now that’s debatable. There are lots of fruit I like but only at their peak of ripeness and flavour. I don’t eat pineapple but have been known to eat half of a perfect pine. Fortunately or maybe unfortunately, perfect pineapples don’t happen along very often. This is the same for most fruit I eat. Flavour is such a risky thing I don’t buy much more than apples and oranges. Roadside stalls often have the best buys.

All this comes from being spoilt with only the best fruit and veg when I was a child. Dad always brought home the pick of the market.

pomolo is spot on. A perfectly ripe Apricot is pretty bloody good, but one that isn’t quite there is ‘orrible, whereas a perfect Mango is very good and one not quite there is also very good.

I adore paw paw but the chances of buying a good one is pretty remote. I have eaten paw paw that had green skin and still hard but the flesh was juicy, yellow and flavourful. All the fruit on that particular tree was the same. Too weird!

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

I’m having some chopped apricots on my porridge, bluddy beautiful.

My taste buds are telling me to grow an apricot tree. Prob is I want an almond tree too and only have room for one more tree..

An almond and an apricot can be budded onto the same rootstock.

that’s what I was gonna say.

Me three.