Stone Fruit Appreciation Thread

[Trombonista]

It's stone fruit season, so let's discuss my favorite type of fruit!

I love cherries and nectarines the most, but I also love peaches and plums. Red velvet apricots are better than the standard orange ones, but they're also expensive. Pluots (plum/apricot hybrids) are good too.

 

[Token Weeaboo]

Can't get me enough of those cherries... I generally like my cherries sweet, sometimes I even pop cherries.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Can't get me enough of those cherries...

Ditto. Anytime I'm at a place that servers Shirley Temples, I always eat the cherry first before i drink the drink.

sometimes I even pop cherries.

 

[Token Weeaboo]

Ditto. Anytime I'm at a place that servers Shirley Temples, I always eat the cherry first before i drink the drink.

Not joking this time: I sometimes buy marishino cherries just to eat them out of the bottle they come in. Sometimes I even use the juice in the bottle as a sort of flavoring for drinks. I also know it's not the proper way to do it- BUT! I sometimes even replace the bit I used for flavoring with some alcohol to make a really weak alcoholic cherry.

 

[Just A Butt]

Despite having recently lived in the “Peach state” (which is a joke because most of the good peaches come from SC anyway, not GA) I could never stand them. Plums are amazing, though.

 

[Maskull]

Not joking this time: I sometimes buy marishino cherries just to eat them out of the bottle they come in. Sometimes I even use the juice in the bottle as a sort of flavoring for drinks. I also know it's not the proper way to do it- BUT! I sometimes even replace the bit I used for flavoring with some alcohol to make a really weak alcoholic cherry.

Unashamed to say I do so too.

 

[Arkangel]

Cherries for sure. The feeling of biting into a good cherry is great.

 

[Pinot Pierrot]

Everyone's already talked about cherries and peaches, so I'm going to add mangoes into the mix. I usually get honey mangoes, the ones looking like yellow kidneys. My grandma taught me to remove the skin by hand, so instead of using the normal method (taking one half and making cross-hatches to poke the flesh out into cube shapes), I would peel the fruit like a banana before sucking the flesh off the pit, ape style.

Sure, my hand is a mess afterwards, but that's what kitchen sinks are for.

 

[Angry New Ager]

Apricots. Peaches* and nectarines are good, plums are okay, and I like cherries a lot, but apricots are the fucking best, and I will eat them until I'm sick. The challenge, as with any fruit, is finding ones that are actually ripe; the farmers' market is usually my best bet. I buy a flat to make jam every year, but it's never as good as fresh, ripe apricots.

*Yellow peaches are great, but fuck those flavorless piece of shit white peaches that are sometimes all they have in the supermarket. They're one of those fruits where aesthetics and the ability to survive shipping have made them far, far more popular than they have any right to be. They're like the Red Delicious apple or Iceberg lettuce of peaches.

 

[Trombonista]

*Yellow peaches are great, but fuck those flavorless piece of shit white peaches that are sometimes all they have in the supermarket. They're one of those fruits where aesthetics and the ability to survive shipping have made them far, far more popular than they have any right to be. They're like the Red Delicious apple or Iceberg lettuce of peaches.

White peaches and nectarines are too sweet for me. I like tangy yellow ones.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Cherries are good (especially Bing cherries) but nectarines are one of my favorite on the go snacks.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I don't like very many stone fruits but I've finally come around to cherries more recently. They're one of those things where you've gotta have them in the right season to really appreciate how tasty they are.

 

[Trombonista]

I recently had red velvet apricots for the first time in years. They're just as good as I remembered.

 

[Titos]

Stone fruits are great and probably very healthy, in fact the presidents of the United States move to the country sometimes to eat alot of them.
Seriously though nectarines are better than peaches.

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

I have a unforbidden love with olives. I dunno, I just plop them, I find them delicious!

Raspberries are nice too.

 

[Renisha X]

Grilling the bigger stone fruits is pretty tasty, for both salads and sundaes. It's a little haram but I like a slice of grilled nectarine/peach with blue cheese on a burger.

 

[Orion Balls]

I miss good peaches.

Grilling the bigger stone fruits is pretty tasty, for both salads and sundaes. It's a little haram but I like a slice of grilled nectarine/peach with blue cheese on a burger.

Blackened redfish with grilled peaches and mullberries is heaven.

 

[Token Weeaboo]

Avocados- albeit the soy boy's favorite- is a very versatile stone fruit. In the last few years in it's rising use I had no idea it could be used for as many things as I've seen it used it. I'm not too big on avocados myself, but damn they're impressive.

 

[Orion Balls]

A man I worked with planted an avocado pit in the backyard of our kitchen. The neighbor was angry until the tree bore fruit, then never bothered him or the restaurant, again.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I don't like very many stone fruits but I've finally come around to cherries more recently. They're one of those things where you've gotta have them in the right season to really appreciate how tasty they are.

I want to go on record as saying I have seen the stonefruit light, I had a really good nectarine recently and so I've been eating those and peaches a lot. I'm thinking of adding some to my oatmeal tomorrow morning.