Sexy Fruit

[lucky-E-leven]

Caution: Peel those mangos! The skin of a mango causes an allergic reaction in some people, so don't rub your eyes after handling it. And for god's sake, don't eat it! It's tempting, like a beautiful apple. But the outer skin of a fresh mango contains an irritant like the one in poison ivy.

Never eat a mango until it is naked. No matter how it may plead.

Thanks. Where were you three years ago when my Hawaiian friend was raving about mangoes and gave me one with the skin on it. Her, eating them straight from the tree since early childhood, no problem. Me, never having had one in my life, red burning rash on face and lips for four hours. Felt like the top layer of skin had been removed from my tongue. PAIN! And yet, they were so yummy and sweet that even though the burning began halfway through, I couldn't stop eating it. Ugh.

Good for everyone else to pay this warning heed. Trust me.

~lucky

 

[shereads]

Yon pomegranite tree.

I love pomegranite. Not when I'm hungry, of course, because it takes forever to eat one. Pomegranite not only looks like a collection of beautiful rubies and garnets, but eating one is like mining fruit. Tons of work and dedication are required.

A pomegranite demands commitment.

 

[Guest]

I still remember seeing my first mango grove in Mexico. Swooned.

In L.A. I rented a house with six full-grown fig trees (purple and white) in the back yard. I love figs similarly to mangoes, for the texture and taste.

Anyone familiar with D.H. Lawrence's description of how-to-eat a fig? It's in Women in Love, obscenely erotic, his character (Rupert) describes it like cunnilingus, and at a dinner table!

Perdita

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I know it's not really PC, but I'm kind of partial to Sharon Fruit. And Litchie. I voted for banana, though. It just screams out its obscenity.
And the way they sell them in bunches... looks like a San Francisco bachelor party.

 

[Guest]

... looks like a San Francisco bachelor party.

Ha ha.

Flicka, why do you say it's not PC? I don't know what a Sharon fruit is.

I have only had litchie (lychee) from a can, get them at my Chinese market. The Chinese call them 'dragon eyes'. I love their texture and the unique flavor. They were always a treat for my sons and they pretended they really were dragon eyes.

P.

 

[shereads]

Ha ha.

Flicka, why do you say it's not PC? I don't know what a Sharon fruit is.

I have only had litchie (lychee) from a can, get them at my Chinese market. The Chinese call them 'dragon eyes'. I love their texture and the unique flavor. They were always a treat for my sons and they pretended they really were dragon eyes.

P.

Fresh ones are fabulous. The peel looks ugly and lumpy, but it comes off easily, like removing an unattractive blazer. The fruit is like a whorish tropical version of a grape, but with an enormous seed that makes you suck the fruit off of it.

 

[destinie21]

isn't sharon friut Persimmon Pudding?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Well, you know, with all that's going on in Israel...

It's related to persimon, apparently.

 

[shereads]

Not a fan of fresh figs, because I got sick off of them in my grandfather's garden when I was seven.

Nothing is tastier or sexier than fresh cherries.

Strawberries usually look better than they taste, like tomatoes from the supermarket. But I once had some tiny ones from Argentina that were sweet as sugar.

Cherries, strawberries, mango, a perfectly ripe Georgia peach (also difficult to find a good peach in the market), just-ripe-enough juicy pears, not-too-sweet red plums...Whatever is in season and at its best. Fruit is sexy. Vegetables are not particulary. Why is that?

I have an avocado tree that's 60 ft. tall and dangerous. Florida avocados are like cannonballs. The fruit at the top of the tree can't be picked even with one of those enormous telescoping fruit-picker poles, so when avocados are in season at the Decaying Jungle Compound, I have to stay out of the back yard for months. Sitting on the deck one day, reading the Sunday paper and having my morning coffee, with the dog sunning her belly a few feet away, and KABOOOOOM!! three feet from the dog's head, a falling avocado shattered a huge terracotta planter.

I love avocados, but wish someone would train a monkey to pick the fruit. Also, squirrels take only one bite each out of every one on the tree. Cute little bastards, but so wasteful.

Dogs love avocados. She often comes inside with green lips, weeks after I think the season is over...finds the ripe fallen ones and arm-wrestles the squirrels for the splattered remains.

The tree was in full fruit when Hurricane Irene came through a few years ago.

All night long, green cannonballs were dropping onto the roof and deck. The next day, the back yard was a sea of quacamole. The ripe ones, dropping from 60 feet, splatter when they hit. It stank. I didn't eat avocados for over a year after that.

 

[destinie21]

hmm I've had my fill of cherries.
After the witches of eastwick Inever could eat them as I once had

 

[dirtylover]

Which fruit do I find the sexiest?

Personally, I just like to jerk off over the entire fruit-bowl.