Eating fruit
I like to be healthy and so, since I was a child (smaller and slightly less bitter, much like a ripened goosberry) I've eaten fruit on the basis that it's good for you and healthy people should eat fruit.

I don't like fruit though. It's too sweet and dribbly and runny, and the nice stuff (strawberries, raspberries) is expensive, and it's difficult to eat and you have to peel it usually, which probably expends more energy than the fruit actually offers.

Fruit sucks. I'm a grown up and no longer have to eat it if I don't want to. And now that the government have started that "Change 4 Life" patronising wankstain of an advertising campaign, I'm going to smash the System by not eating fruit. (And when I say "eating" I mean "buying, and leaving in the fruitbowl so that I can watch it slowly rot".)
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 12:58, 4 replies)

YES,
God fruits wank, I don't actually see the point of it unless it's dipped in chocolate and that kind of negates the whole healthy bit.

I do like blackberries though it has to be said.
(lei, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 16:22, closed)

*Quiet applause*
Madam, I could not agree more.
(Guizmeaux, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 17:01, closed)

crap fruit
It doesn't help that most fruit in UK supermarkets is either unripe or nearly rotten. It's either picked and flown from half a world away or stuck in a cold store for months. Next time you're somewhere hot, try the local fruit. I could never see the point of mangos until I lived in Australia. Loads of people have them in their gardens, so you're guaranteed to get them at just the right time. The first time friends offered my wife and I some from their tree there was so much slurping and moans of pure pleasure that it sounded like a cheap porno. And we needed a shower afterwards (they are kind of messy).
( SteamedCleaner, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 23:27, closed)

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"it's difficult to eat and you have to peel it usually, which probably expends more energy than the fruit actually offers."

Fuck grapefruit
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 23:22, closed)