Grapefruit - annoying/not annoying

[danny la rouge]

I love the taste of grapefruit and especially grapefruit juice. But it reacts with several of my many meds. The motherfucker piece of shit.

 

[Orang Utan]

Hate it, but that appears to be down to a matter of genetics

 

[Plumdaff]

I also can't eat it due to meds but don't care because I'm not a picky eater, but I firmly dislike pineapple and grapefruit. Don't eat things that are acidic enough to melt away the lining of your mouth.

 

[Happy Tree]

I love me a pink grapefruit. But pomelos can fuck right off. They don't even have juice.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Its shit

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Its total and utter shit. A waste of space in the fruit aisle.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Happily eat lemons as they are - lovely and tart. But grapefruit are just bitter and nasty.

It's a citrus fruit that has had Bitrex genetically engineered into it.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Anything can be annoying, with the right frame of mind.

 

[danny la rouge]

Its total and utter shit. A waste of space in the fruit aisle.

It’s so annoying when I see people who can eat them saying this! I’ll swap you! Either your ability to eat them or your hatred of them! Universe! :shakes fist!:

 

[Saul Goodman]

Its total and utter shit. A waste of space in the fruit aisle.

A lovely grapefruit for the haters.

 

[quimcunx]

I used to drink gin and grapefruit juice when I was about 18. Grapefruit Ting is OK.

I also tried eating it a couple of times. It seemed to be considered the breakfast of dieters back in rhe day. Not with the amount of sugar I needed to make it palatable, it wasn't. Or with the actual food you needed to eat later to make up for your non breakfast.

If its any consolation I don't want them and can't eat them anyway.

 

[Orang Utan]

There js a genetic taste marker in grapefruit, a chemical that is unpleasantly bitter to those who have inherited certain genes.

 

[WouldBe]

Yuck.

 

[Saul Goodman]

There js a genetic taste marker in grapefruit, a chemical that is unpleasantly bitter to those who have inherited certain genes.

Is there one of those in sprouts?

 

[Epona]

Is there one of those in sprouts?

Yes

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It’s so annoying when I see people who can eat them saying this! I’ll swap you! Either your ability to eat them or your hatred of them! Universe! :shakes fist!:

I can eat them, but as they're vile I'll happily put them in the bin on your behalf.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Yes

I'm fine with sprouts, but don't like grapefruit due it being bitter. Maybe I'm a weird mutant?

Don't answer that.

 

[Epona]

I can take grapefruit or leave it, I quite like a grapefruit flavour in fizzy drinks (eg. Lilt and similar) or juices when it's mixed with other things.
N loves grapefruit and can't have it due to meds.

 

[Epona]

I'm fine with sprouts, but don't like grapefruit due it being bitter. Maybe I'm a weird mutant?

Don't answer that.

They're different genes And another one for "coriander leaf tastes like soap".

 

[Orang Utan]

Is there one of those in sprouts?

there must be some in coffee and in Aperol/Campari too

 

[JimW]

What about a pomelo?

 

[JimW]

That was rather euphonious.

 

[Epona]

What about a pomelo?

I can't say I've ever had one, I mean I know what one is but I've never eaten one.

I did buy some pink pepper and pomelo tonic at some point and it's a bit at odds with the junipery gin I bought it to go with (whereas a pink pepper tonic with no other flavours goes brilliantly in it).

 

[StoneRoad]

I love grapefruit, I even have a specially bent knife for their preparation. Quite fiddly, though. Brown sugar lightly sprinkled over the top, cover and leave until breakfast time.
When I was staying with my late father, half a pink grapefruit for breakfast was an easy way to get Vit C into the old codger. I miss that.

 

[cesare]

Too much peel and pith but I like grapefruit juice. Pink grapefruits are better than standard ones, not as bitter.

 

[Happy Tree]

Pomelo is the devil's gonads.

 

[JimW]

Pomelo is the devil's gonads.

Drier than that!

 

[Yossarian]

I like grapefruit, now more than I used to, not sure if a lot of the bitterness has been bred out it over the last few decades or my taste buds are less sensitive

 

[Orang Utan]

I’d never heard of a pomelo until today

 

[marshall]

I love grapefruit, I even have a specially bent knife for their preparation. Quite fiddly, though. Brown sugar lightly sprinkled over the top, cover and leave until breakfast time.
When I was staying with my late father, half a pink grapefruit for breakfast was an easy way to get Vit C into the old codger. I miss that.

I too have a bendy knife to help with the prep, and a serrated, scrape-y spoon for peak extraction...I then cover it all in honey