Poll:Which fruit requires the most effort/commitment to eat?

[Masterurethane]

A friend and I were discussing this, and it needs to be settled.

[Zilverzmurfen]

No doubt. It's messy, juicy and the peels smell awful.
Your energy loss is higher than what you gain from eating them!

[grphiw]

I said pineapples, but in reality it was a tie between pineapples and kiwi. Pineapples you have to cut the top off then basically core it out. Kiwi's, unless you eat it with a spoon, gets juice all over the place, and is a real nightmare to peel. Looks attractive, but not worth the effort of peeling the hairy thing.

[Maeve_Mari]

Pomegranates, hands down.
Hands red and juicy if you want to be exact.

[Masterurethane]

Yeah, I've just been eating oranges, they're a nightmare, and it inspired me to find out what other people thought.

[Almightynoitall]

It's hard to consider just one fruit above the rest, so here's a few for you...

1. the Pomegranite: an obnoxious skin and flesh inside that you hae to poke and prod through to get those oh so juicy seeds... NOt to mention the care that must be taken if you don't wish to stain anything the juice touches.

2. The coconut. It's easy to take two empty halves of a coconut and bang them together... but it's another thing entirely to get to them, find a decent one, and crack it open just right.

3. the mango: a terrible pain to try and manage your first time without instruction... the skin needs to be taken off, and then, the actual meat of the fruit is fairly shallow before you get to the giant seed core. It's messy and time consuming until you get the hang of it.

4. Cranberries are rediculously hard and need to be boiled before they're much good for anything.

5. the Durian: odds are you've seen one of these and didn't realize it was actually edible... the durian looks like a terribly deformed, greenish to brownish pineapple with full spikes. getting inside of one's a little annoying, and they are known for the terrible smell they permeate (smell like hell, taste like heaven, as they say in Thailand) Most people that haven't tried them, wont once they smell it.

[Masterurethane]

Some very good points, I didn't think of the coconut.

Grapefruit still needs to be considered though, you generally need both a knife and a spoon to eat one, which is a big thing to take into account.

[Army Fencer]

Some very good points, I didn't think of the coconut.

Is the coconut a fruit?

[Masterurethane]

Yup, I think so at least, I'm pretty sure it's not a nut. I could be wrong here.

[Maeve_Mari]

Is the coconut a fruit?

Would it be a vegetable if not a fruit?

[Zilverzmurfen]

Is the coconut a fruit?

It's actually a seed, isn't it?

[FlamingDeth]

It would take a lot of effort/commitement for me to eat a grapefruit, but that's not physical effort of any sort, it's just because the things are revolting...

[Masterurethane]

Hmm, I think i was wrong, I think nuts come under the label "fruit" officially.

From www.wordiq.com

"Seeds are ripened ovules; fruits are the ripened ovularies or carpels that contain the seeds. To these two basic definitions can be added the clarification that in botanical terminology, a nut is a type of fruit and not another term for seed."

[Masterurethane]

It would take a lot of effort/commitement for me to eat a grapefruit, but that's not physical effort of any sort, it's just because the things are revolting...

Even pink grapefruit?

Yum

[Maeve_Mari]

It's actually a seed, isn't it?

I found this designation:
"A nut may be defined as a one-seeded fruit with a hard pericarp (ripened ovary wall). One or several nuts may sit in a cup-shaped structure called an involucre. In oaks (Quercus) the involucre is composed of small scales and the entire structure (involucre plus nut) is called an acorn. In chestnuts (Castanea) and beech (Fagus) the involucre is spiny, while in filberts
and hazelnuts (Corylus), the involucre is leafy or tubular, depending on the exact species. "

Continuing on to describe the Coconut:

"Many so-called botanical nuts are more appropriately termed "drupes" or "dry drupes." These "false nuts" are really the seed-bearing, hard, inner layer (endocarp) of a fruit called a drupe. In dry drupes the outer layer or husk sometimes splits open or withers. This outer husk is part of the ovary wall (pericarp), and the hard inner wall surrounding the seed represents the inner part of the pericarp. Dry drupes are technically not true nuts because in true nuts the hard outer wall constitutes the entire pericarp. The coconut (Cocos nucifera) is a classic example of a dry drupe, with a thin, green, outer layer called the exocarp, a thick, fibrous middle layer called the mesocarp, and a very hard inner layer surrounding the large seed called an endocarp. These same three layers are easily visible in fleshy drupes such as the peach (Prunus persica), plum (P. domestica), and apricot (P. armeniaca). Unshelled almonds (P. amygdalus) are seeds still contained within an endocarp layer."

[Army Fencer]

Speaking of fruit:

There were these three tomatoes walking down the street--a mama tomato, a daddy tomato, and a baby tomato. As they were walking a car came by and smashed the baby tomato: ketchup was all over the place. They call the ambulance, and rush the baby tomato to the hospital and into emergency surgery. After a few hours, the doctor tomato comes out and tells the family, "I've got some good news, and I've got some bad news. The good news is, we were able to save your son. The bad news is, he's going to be a vegetable..."

[Masterurethane]

Hehe, dear me.

I reckon if we did a poll of most enjoyable fruit, then we could plot the results against each other, and finally discover the perfect fruit.

[Maeve_Mari]

Hehe, dear me.

I reckon if we did a poll of most enjoyable fruit, then we could plot the results against each other, and finally discover the perfect fruit.

Something along the lines of: which fruit provides you the most enjoyment?

[Almightynoitall]

Something along the lines of: which fruit provides you the most enjoyment?

Anyone answering with "f*****dhutt" will be slapped...

[jeff]

Something along the lines of: which fruit provides you the most enjoyment?

Well, that opens things up a bit. Are we still restricting the scope of this to eating the things?