Drupe poll! What's a drupe? You eat it!

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It's SUMMER (up here anyway) so these delicious juicy treats are in season, cheap and sweet and plentiful! Is there any one among them for which you would forsake all others? If you LOVE drupes so much, why don't you MARRY one?

CHOOSE NOW!

Poll Results

OptionVotes
raspberry 4
nectarine 4
mango 3
pistachio 3
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! Although you probably don't think of them that way, these are also drupes: 3
cherry 3
plum 3
blackberry 3
THERE'S EVEN AGGREGATE DRUPES CALLED DRUPLETS! 2
olive(!!) 2
coconut 2
coffee(!) 2
pluot 1
date 0
jujube 0
apricot 0
almond 0
peach 0
mulberry (this is a little different, actually but close enough for me)0


Oilyrags, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link

It is unfair to put mangos against these other beauties, so i ignored that one.
winner: nectarine.

mizzell, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link

and what about peacotums, apriums, and plumcots?!?

mizzell, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link

news to me!

Oilyrags, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link

It bothers me that pluots are not called plummicots. It bothers me a lot. But I still eat them.

Bob Standard, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link

I chose THERE'S EVEN AGGREGATE DRUPES CALLED DRUPLETS! because it seemed to be a three-in-one!! I LOVE blackberries!

Stevie D, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link

coffee is obviously going to win

Hurting 2, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link

winner: nectarine.

Right you are. But with all genetic engineering with all sorts of fruits, drupes, druplets and what have you, I'm yet to see a nectarine (or peach) with a skin that doesn't feel all strange and uncomfortable. The trait which brings the nectarine down from it's near perfect status.

mehlt, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link

go pistachio!!

l, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh my GOD what a fantastic idea for a poll. But it's like choosing between father, son and holy ghost!

The reason I bought my first pluot was it had a sticker featuring a brontosaurus in front of the planet Saturn.

Abbott, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:31 (sixteen years ago) link

This is worse than "who would u fuk!" I can't vote. It would be wrong.

Beth Parker, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Pistachio's the one that's really throwing me, because I could eat a whole bag of 'em in one sitting. Makin' like Leslie Nielsen trying to get out of the car, ya know? But a pistachio isn't a nectarine, no sir.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link

I'd have to check with a botanist, but I think a brontosaurus in front of the planet Saturn is probably technically considered a drupe as well. On account of drupes are awesome, and so is that.

Oilyrags, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link

raspberry

gabbneb, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link

cherry cherry cherry !!!

jhøshea, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link

I voted for raspberries, but I felt bad about it. Awww, peaches! So delicious with...raspberries!

Beth Parker, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link

But I actually have been consuming HUGE quantities of cherries.

Beth Parker, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Thursday, 30 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link

I bought a giant bag of cherries because houseguests were coming—it cost 32 dollars—the cashier asked me if I was sure, and in a fit of grandiosity I said NO PROBLEM. Then I forgot about them and they TURNED INTO COMPOST.

Beth Parker, Thursday, 30 August 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link

How big does a bag of cherries have to be to cost $32 dollars? Were you going to fill a tub with them?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link

omg beth that is so sad! cherries are the only fruit that ever surprise me with their price once at the checkout. which is why i only buy them when they are btwn 1.99 and 2.99/lb. anything more than that is how you get a $32 bag of cherries

i still do not know what this thread is about

rrrobyn, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link

's drupes, bruv. Nah seriously...

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 31 August 2007 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Peaches totally shut out?!??

Wow.

Oilyrags, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link

It's the summer of the nectarine. I just made dessert with peaches tonight though.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link

i have been eating 3 peaches a day for the past 3 days
i bought a basket of them
they are from ontario and they are v v good
i have also eaten some other things but mostly peaches

rrrobyn, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link

This is drupe season, for sure. To not eat drupes is to be a big poop.

Beth Parker, Friday, 31 August 2007 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link

To the person who invented white peaches - WTF? Did you consciously set out to develop a peach-like object with absolutely no peach flavor? Yes, a good peach is sweet, but it is also PEACHY ffs.

Jaq, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

These red plums feel like they're radiating some kind of inner light. Oh lord, why do they come but once a year?

kkvgz, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link

Brewer's drupe?

Chaim Poutine (NickB), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 09:47 (thirteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Just invited all the fruit flies in to set up shop, aka peach season.

how's life, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link


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