On Mon, 02 Nov 2020 05:37:03 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:

>On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 13:24:33 -0400, Sheldon Martin >
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 07:52:55 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:41:48 -0400, jmcquown >
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 10/29/2020 4:52 PM, Je?us wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:58:48 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been getting such HUGE cantaloupes I split my Fruit Snacks in half and eat one half fresh and put the other half in the fridge.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I gently warm the refrigerated half on my microwave's "Time Defrost" setting for 30mins set to "Power Level" 1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Who the hell microwaves cantaloupes? Or wants warm cantaloupe?
>>>>>
>>>>You get one guess and that doesn't count.
>>>
>>>Yep
>>>
>>>>It would be different if he was baking some sort of fruit tarts or
>>>>making a cobbler to top with ice cream. Heated up cantaloupe? YUK.
>>>
>>>In this house, even in winter, any fruit kept in the fridge doesn't
>>>get 'warmed up' in a microwave. How bloody soft do you need to be to
>>>be traumatised by chilled fruit?
>>
>>My wife doesn't like chilled fruit. She grew up in Belize and hardly
>>anyone had a refrigerator back then. In summer room temperature there
>>can be over 90ºF. Everyone there ate tropical fruit, many items you
>>won't see in US markets.
>
>Yep, well many other people have a similar past. But I don't know a
>single Thai (for example) that warms their fruit though. Most normal
>people would simply take the fruit out of the fridge in advance if
>this is a problem for them.
>
>I prefer mangoes not too cold, as they lose some smell and taste when
>cold... but not once has it bothered me to the point where I thought
>about artificially heating mangoes.

I prefer my fruit chilled so I keep mine in the fridge. My wife
prefers her fruit at room temperature so she keeps hers on the kitchen
counter in a basket.
Lots of fruit plentiful in Belize is not available in the US, and my
wife has odd names for some Belize produce, she likes a soft plum like
fruit that she knows as "stinky toe", it smells of unwashed feet but
she says it tastes delicious. She also likes cashew fruit, I find it
too tart and astringent, but I like cashew fruit wine. One common
fruit she detests is banana, grows all over Belize so she tired of it
long ago... her father kept a whole stalk of bananas hanging under the
house... many houses there are built up on pilings in case of
hurricanes so water flowed under the house. The Belize diet consists
mainly of seafood, the barrier reef of Belize, second largest on the
planet, supplies excellent seafood. They raise cattle but all grass
fed, you'd probably not like such lean beef.