Comments on: FRUIT OPINIONS!

By: Angie

Angie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:31:54 +0000

Cantaloupe and grapefruit are horrible. Watermelons are win because they’re sweet and delicious, and they’re mostly water, so they can’t be fattening, so THERE. Now I’m probably just weird, but underripe fruits just sound awesome to me. (Especially peaches and bananas, although bananas can be a bitch to open when they’re underripe.)

By: Skipperooski

Skipperooski — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:02:10 +0000

There should be a z-axis relative to how much fruit you eat and the probability of getting da’squirts.

Bananas would rank really high.

Plums (off the cart down)…coconuts would be high since you just can’t prep them fast enough.

Green grapes…I’ll have to ponder that one…

By: Cris

Cris — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:53:46 +0000

Ginger syrup (from the Ginger People) changes everything! Best invention of mankind. Still can’t get it inside a closed coconut though…

By: radyo dinle

radyo dinle — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:51:27 +0000

Can I get a witness to the idea that all existing classifications are stupid, and whether or not something is a fruit should be determined on the basis of whether it is sweet?

Don’t see anyone putting tomatoes in fruit salads, after all. Just wouldn’t go. It’s savoury. Motherfucker’s a VEGETABLE on that basis.

By: soo-ah

soo-ah — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:53:54 +0000

cantaloupes are…ewww. I never never liked them and I won’t change my opinion.

Try pomelos (pommelos, pumelos, pummelos and what the heck)!
They’re citrus fresh and tasty, a little bit bitter, but alright.
Maybe you’ll like them.

(Have fun with peeling ;D)

By: Tku

Tku — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:21:57 +0000

I humbly proffer forth – too late to contribute to the discussion but certainly willing to add to fruitly knowledge – the black sapote.

You can’t seriously tell me that a fruit that makes chocolate pudding for you doesn’t even RANK on the deliciousness axis.

By: Garden

Garden — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:09:01 +0000

nice post.

By: Gadget

Gadget — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:50:50 +0000

Gadget…

Great article, Go Gadget go…

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:03:50 +0000

Green apples aren’t that bad. Nor are oranges, though they take ages to peel.

You know what? I should calculate the slopes of the lines that cross through the points on the graph. Of course, the lines would vary directly, so there wouldn’t be any problem with y-intercepts. Then I could use the distance formula to find out which fruit is the best and which one is the worst. A scatter plot might be good, too.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:07:03 +0000

Tasty is really a relative term. But, in the effort not to put an impossibly futile perspective on the matter, I say that if the midline for the tastiness scale represents the average taste of all fruits rather, then all foods, then the chart is rather accurate to me.

OH, I am displeased there was no distinction between red grapes and green grapes on the chart however. You see, I feel the real controversy is in deciding which kind of grape is better.

But when trying to decide which grape is better I must realize red and green grapes are not on an even playing field to begin with. Specifically red grapes are cheaper then green. Therefore when judging which grape I like more, I try to take into account that with a specific amount of money, I can buy more red grapes then I can green.

But wait, let?s expand this a little. Say if we agree red grapes are the best because they are practically just as tasty, but cost less then green. Then, everyone (including myself) would buy more or solely red grapes because of the revelation. This would in turn create more demand for red grapes. With a higher demand for red grapes the price of red grapes would naturally rise. And in raising their price, because price was a factor in deciding which grapes were better, red grapes then become less desirable then green.

I think we have hit upon a Schrödinger?s cat here. If we decide which kind of grape is better, in the long run we change which grape is better to the opposite. By observing which is better we change which is better. Oh my god! And now I see the wisdom in combining the grapes into one category. It is the only way to maintain the balance in the grape world!! Thank you xkcd for having the foresight I could not?

I think I am going to take a walk now?