FRUIT OPINIONS!

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Holy crap. This strip’s been up for 800 seconds and it’s already the most controversial thing I’ve ever written, beating out comics about cunnilingus, the Obama endorsement, and my making 4chan tiny on the map of the internet. It turns out everyone and their mother has a fruit opinion, and every one of those opinions is now in my inbox.

Just remember to keep some perspective. If you think watermelon is delicious, and I think it’s only so-so, the important thing is that we each find something we like. Who’s to say whose taste is right?

I am. You are wrong; watermelon is overrated.

Also, I have never liked cantaloupe. It brings down otherwise tasty fruit salads. There, I said it.

571 replies on “FRUIT OPINIONS!”

  2. there should be either A) a poster of this that comes with stickers that you can apply or B) a poster and set of refrigerator magnets

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  3. I love Grapefruit! That said, only Californian ones. Other ones are a bit not nice. Cantaloupe is rather nice also.

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  4. that is such a great idea joe, I would buy those in a heartbeat

    and cantaloupes do ruin fruit salads, and watermelon has no flavor

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  5. Who’d of thought that THIS would be the most controversial? I’m not sure if that’s really good, really sad, or just really amusing. xD

    Personally, I like kiwi. They taste very good and are the most peculiar color of green ever. The outside of them is gross though. Peaches are also good, but the fuzz on the outside can be too much. It’s best to peal that off.

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  6. Why on earth did you forget mangoes??

    As for coconuts, as a native of India, I agree that the coconuts we get in the west are untasty. However, if you try a fresh coconut just off the tree, they are the best. No fruit barring a juicy mango can beat it.

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  7. So, within a day of its inception this blog post has become the most commented-upon on the site. Yes, this post is self-fulfilling, so sue me.

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  8. Maybe you could create a movement / statistic study / website 2.0 kind of thing that would show the majority tastes for fruit in that cool simplistic yet intelligent graph so that… oh, fuck that! The web comic is really cool 😉

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  10. How can bananas be untasty? They’re fantastic. And blueberries are gross, unless in muffins.

    Although spot on about grapefruits. When I drink grapefruit juice without realizing it, I have to perform some kind of ritual to rid my mouth of that taste.

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  11. I agree with most of your choices, but I think that oranges are tasty.

    But you are right, pomegranates are really difficult to eat.

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  12. Thanks for the graph! I put in my vote. I totally disagree with the averages on it right now, the only ones I was close were tomatoes, green apples, pomegranates, and bananas!

    Strawberries ROCK!

    And Americans change names because apparently we’d rather wear boots on our feet and put two car trunks on our legs than wear two cars on our feet. Sheesh, it just gets all confusing. And I was told rockmelons are a different strain of cantaloupe – I know every rockmelon I’ve had is much sweeter and has a distinct flavor from cantaloupe – and that’s if I buy both from the same farmer (not a grocery store, from an actual farmer, yeah I’m not far from BFE).

    Personally, I’d like to see mango, kiwi, clementines, and nectarines added.

    And how does one categorize Jonagolds? Yellow apples I guess? Those aren’t on there.

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  15. Also missing: about 398742938432 different fruits that aren’t common in the US but are all over the rest of the world!

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  16. I’ve imagined today’s comic as a game – a magnetic board with the X and Y axles drawn on in and small magnets shaped like various fruit.

    I’d throw some useless coconut magnet (it’s off-chart, right?) at anyone who didn’t put mangoes high up on the “tasty” axis.

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  17. Just a suggestion…
    Maybe there should be a z-axis for fragrance…

    like: lemons smell kind of good, but are “untasty”
    and: durians smell really bad and taste really bad…

    and maybe another axis (if possible) rating the three types of judgements (taste, difficulty, and fragrance) for location…

    Like Peruvian mangoes are a lot easier than Mexican mangoes in terms of eating them…

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  19. Of all fruit – the kiwifruit is the best – though that may be coloured by patriotism.

    feijoas and kiwifruit i take a convinience boost at the cost of flavour by eating the skins.

    bananas are the best. diverse uses (fruit salad, on your weetbix, fried with bacon, etc etc.)

    and accept that we kiwis are weird in naming things, I understand kiwi needing to be kiwifruit to differentiate it from our ugly pear-shaped iconic bird, I get that we call sweet potato ‘kumera’ due to it being maori name. but rockmelon, I would never have suspected that it was not a common english name.

    golden peaches are better than those with white flesh.

    mandarins have the taste of oranges with much more convinience. beautiful.

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  20. […] Where the heck is honeydew? That’s what I want to know.

    Stop and think about this for a minute though. People are up in arms over this thing. […]

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  21. I guess I’ll add my voice to the 300+ who have already gave their opinion:

    Mr. Munroe, your fruit graph is wrong in so many ways, it isn’t even funny, and it makes me question if you have properly functioning taste buds.

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  22. Cantaloupe is nasty. Oranges, on the other hand, are delicious and (if you can get the right variety) easy to peel. And Pink Ladies beat the knickers right off any other apple, be it red or green. Unlike a Red Delicious, for example, a Pink Lady is almost always tart, tangy and crisp; never mushy or cloying.

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  24. Tomatoes aren’t fruits… 😛

    Anyways, I agree with everything on the graph except for…watermelon. WTF? Watermelon, especially of the seedless variety, is the best fruit EVER. You commies need to grow some balls and realize that just because you can’t grow fruit in Soviet Russia doesn’t mean you have to put down our watermelons. We won the Cold War, and we’ll win any other war without your fucking seedless grapes and green apples, thanks; we’ve got melons. >:O

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  25. >Anyways, I agree with everything on the graph except for…watermelon. WTF? Watermelon, especially of the seedless variety, is the best fruit EVER. You commies need to grow some balls and realize that just because you can’t grow fruit in Soviet Russia doesn’t mean you have to put down our watermelons. We won the Cold War, and we’ll win any other war without your fucking seedless grapes and green apples, thanks; we’ve got melons. >:O

    So true. And peaches? WTF mate!

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  26. That The Common Genius blog has the best blog title ever related to this comic.

    Some people seem to look at people’s responses as them getting up in arms. I don’t. I mainly get the feeling that people here are not trying to prove Randall wrong, or themselves right, but just having a fun discussion about something as unimportant as personal taste in fruit.

    I could be wrong though, I mean an inbox flooded with mails does say something, but yet again I can’t help but wonder if they weren’t mostly meant as humourous. I mean, how many people here deeply care about what Randall has “said”, so much that they’re actually somewhat offended by it? Not many, I’d think.

    On another note, whoever registred fruitgraph.com (brilliant btw) should seriously somehow put up an interactive fruit graph. Flash, AJAX, I don’t care, this is just too good an idea right up there with WetRiffs.com

    And on yet another note, if I had my very own refridgerator, I’d save the comic to my harddrive, edit out all the fruit, print it out, stick it on my fridge, go out and buy plenty of different fruit magnets, stick them all up on the chart according to MY preferences, and take a picture of them. Just too bad I don’t have a fridge.

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  30. Alright, most of this graph I can chock up to opinion. The placement of bananas on the ease scale, however, is just silly. There have already been many arguments on this, but I think I’ve thought up a new one. I give you SOMETHING I FOUND ON THE INTRAWEBS:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zwbhAXe5yk

    That’s right, bananas are SO easy to eat they’ve caused idiots to think they’re an argument against evolution. Of course, with bananas as we know them being cultivated by humans since as far back as 8000 BC their argument is one of the worst I’ve ever heard, but come on.

    Step back and think about this for a second: these are people who probably have trouble drinking through straws. Give them a peach and they would choke and die on the pit within 5 minutes. The fact that these morons can consume them with no major casualties, and even feel so strongly that they’re EASY to eat has to put them past any pitted fruit on the easiness scale.

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  31. Cantaloupe… in the USA… is actually a muskmelon… *not* a true Cantaloupe which is grown in other parts of the world and tends to be prohibitively expensive in the USA (if one was to buy a REAL cantaloupe)

    So maybe your “rockmelon” is being compared to a *real* cantaloupe and NOT what us “yanks” call cantaloupes (which are just muskmelons and not really cantaloupes).

    Never thought I’d get to nerd out here… Food Network and Altan Brown for the WIN!!!! I love me some Mr. Wizard in the Kitchen.

    Oh yeah, and Bananas… chalky, dry, smooshy… easy, yes. Tasty? Debatable. Although I do agree that an apple isn’t an apple unless you specify.

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  32. Not that anyone cares, but bananas are significantly easier to eat then pears. Pears squirt juice everywhere, whereas banas actually come with a handle.

    Also, to the one person on the Internet who read all these comments: you have my utmost respect. Now please leave the room.

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  33. WHAT??? You obviously have no properly operating taste buds. You sick freak.

    Grapefruit may be difficult, but so are most things worth working for. They rock!

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  34. I went over the graph looking for something I could disagree with but ultimately, you are correct on all fronts.

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  36. Watermelon is better than your graph says. So are lemons. Lemons are so much better than grapes.

    Ignoring seedless grapes, bananas are the easiest thing on that graph. No exception.

    Coconuts, however… Horrible to eat. Horrible to drink.

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  39. I think you should make a drag-and-drop deal so people can move the fruit around on the chart to their liking.

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  40. I am sorry, good sir, but I must disagree with your chart greatly. Especially the alt-text. I know coconuts are difficult, but MAN are they good.

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  41. I’m sorry but I can’t believe you would rate lemon’s so low on the tasty scale, they add so much flavor to all sorts of delicious food, and they go great with tea.

    And plums belong way lower on the easy scale, they have those pits in the middle which bug the hell out of me and just ruin plums in general.

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  43. FUCK YOU you FRUIT PHILISTINE

    Also, how the shit are seeded grapes tastier than seedless grapes? Or is that just shoddy draftsmanship? Please answer this question, as I am seriously confused. Is it some side effect of genetically modifying them to be seedless? Please help me!

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  44. right on with the grapefruit. that sh*t’s nasty. tastes bitter and metallic to me.

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  45. Come on. Grapefruit is harder than a watermelon? And oranges? You cut it in half and scoop it out with a spoon. And bad tasting? Huh? Grapefruit is amazing.

    Peaches, good job.

    Bananas, WHAT? They are as easy as apples, and they taste really good. Really good.

    TOMATOES ARE NOT A FRUIT.

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  46. I am all for pretty much everything on the comic but for the placement of pomegranates below the Tastyline. For that, there will be a quick, damnably-staining revolution that will appear to seep forth from the inside of a gigantic, skinned raspberry. NO ONE EXPECTS THE POMEGRANATE INQUISITION. NO ONE.

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  48. Melons make me ill. So I’m with you on cantaloupe. As a Vietnamese girl with a banana tree I must say that such a delicious yellow fruit is poorly placed on the axis.

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  49. Is this normalized for cognitive dissonance?

    Perhaps someone who has to invest a lot of time and effort into a fruit will alter their consciousness to believe the fruit is better than they would’ve originally thought.

    Good explanation:

    Take fraternity hazing for example. Under rational circumstances, you’d think someone would be pissed if a group of people humiliated them and physically hurt them repeatedly for a week. However, because of the fact that they subjected themselves to it voluntarily, all of the negative feelings one might have after going through such an ordeal are drawn back the other way into love and respect for the fraternity. – Halx

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