Hot (and not) fruit takes

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Emery what are all your hot fruit takes? Do you prefer your fruit hot? Or or not. We might be going in the same direction on this one, I think, judging by the question you just asked me. No, no, no, no. That was a joke. So now I'm really excited. We're about to talk about hot fruit. Jeez. Maybe. Okay. All right. I prefer my fruit at all temperatures depending upon my mood. Oh, that's interesting. I I waver towards room temperature. Really? Yeah.

Oh yeah. Do not want to bite into a cold apple. Do not want to bite into a cold strawberry. terrible cold strawberries. This is so interesting because this is a perfect perfect setup for the conversation we're about to have or that we are now officially having because because I I'm a cold cold or nothing person. I I want my grapefruit chilled. I want my apple as crispy and chilly as possible. I want my oranges.

cold. I want my grapes cold. Even better frozen. A citrus fruit, I I I will say, like that is good. Uh slightly chilled, not too cold. And I do like a frozen grape, but but you must not have very sensitive teeth. 'Cause like a cold apple to me, that's horrible. It can get you. And you're not supposed to refrigerate your apples, right?

I'm not a big apples in the summer person. So by the time I'm eating apples, it's pretty cold in my house already. So it's kinda like on the counter there already kinda chilled. Does that make any sense? Maybe not. But I don't know. I think you should heat your house is what I think. Put on a sweater. All right. So would you like to go first or should I go first?

I'll go first. Okay. Because I've found multiple posts about this now. But the first one that caught my attention was in the unpopular opinion subreddit, which I really I love that place. Same. And someone Forsaken Bread. Six zero three four. Forsaken bread. Their post says, microwaving fruit is the way to go. This person writes, microwaved fruit feels like a warm hug from the inside. It's also fun to experiment with taste and texture post microwave. Berries turn into hot juice bursts.

Bananas taste like dessert, and apples turn soft. Add some water to the bottom of the plate for extra mush. Drizzle some honey on top for dessert, sprinkle some cinnamon for a dash of spice. Okay, well the beginning of that to me sounded like pure rage bait. I'm sorry. I don't buy it. It sounds complete nonsense to me. However, once they got into the like sprinkle some cinnamon, put some honey, dri driz, driz some honey on there.

I'm down with the driz. Just need to enunciate really well when you say that. Driz. D starts with a d. D. Driz. Driz. But but when you do that, I feel like specifically with a banana. With some driz. With some driz. Oh my God. That does sound like dessert. That sounds like a tasty hot dessert to me. A or a drizzert, if you will. A drizzert, yeah. A lot of people um

commented that that that's just what like pie is, right? You want you want your hot fruit. But of course, many people said um it's obscene. Delete this. Someone says I've literally never heard of this, I'm disgusted, in parentheses, but willing to try it. One of the reasons why I cherish the unpopular opinion subreddit is because it's one of maybe the only subreddit where an upvote validates how bad your opinion is, how unpopular your opinion is. It's the only sub where being wrong

makes you a winner. So there were a lot of people who posted some version of I like that. What this one person says, uh, which is this take absolutely sucks. Take your upvote, weirdo. Um so it's a popular post just'cause most people are grossed out by it. But it actually makes a lot of sense to me that you might want to um

microwave some fruit and other people then were curious to try it. So one person said, mushy microwaved apple with cinnamon sprinkled on top of it. I'm looking forward to it already. And the OP is like, Love that. Update us on your success when you're done. Some people need a testimony. This person never comes back to update, so another person comments, he never updated. The microwaved fruit probably got him.

I experimented with it. Okay. Okay. Yes. I I did the apple slices. Um I I wish I'd had a banana, because that does sound Um a little A little strange. Although when you freeze banana slices, they do taste like candy. They taste more like banana flavored things. than a regular banana does. So I would imagine that heating it up does the same. But well, you know, I mean bananas foster is a thing, right? Like y there's there's there's Are they hot in that though? Yeah.

Oh I guess I've never had bananas. They're on fire. Bananas. They're on fi okay. It's like uh liquor in a pan with some bananas and voila. Okay, so I'm not a not not a honey gal in particular, but I did take the suggestion of adding a little water to the bottom to for extra mush as they say. I sliced and peeled a pink a pink lady apple, if people care about the specific kind of apple. Sprinkled some cinnamon and some lemon juice, cause someone else had recommended lemon juice.

popped in the microwave for like 40 seconds flipping the slices over halfway through. I have one left. I'm not gonna eat it on the microphone because I know people will hate me if I do that. So I'm backing away for a moment. Verdict is delicious. I find this to be truly A treat. A hug from the inside, as the OP said. I mean a hug from the inside isn't even a hug from the inside to me. That's just a weird phrase. Don't like it. But I I like a room temperature apple. I now know that I like a

A microwaved warm apple. I will try the banana trick and report back'cause now I feel like I have to. And um I don't care what temperature people eat their fruit, as long as they eat fruit. Okay, do you have a banana handy? No, I wish. I would have microwaved it. Okay. Well Do you have a banana handy? I don't. Um

Producer Freddie Monahan, do you have a banana handy? I'm actually allergic to raw bananas, but maybe I need to start buying bananas to microwave them because I can eat them once they've been heated. Oh, interesting. Okay. Okay, but maybe also don't risk it. We can just report back. Not yet. I'm not putting not putting your life on the line here. Yeah. All right. None of us have a banana handy.

So we're just gonna have to imagine this and or talk about it. So take a minute while we go to this break and just picture a banana in your mind. Start there. Driz or no drizz? Whatever whatever floats your boat. If you wanna have some Driz on that banana, please you sick sick weirdos out there, please drizz the banana. And come and and come back, please, and I'll tell you a little tale about bananas. Footlocker is your one-stop sneaker show. Discover the latest shoes from the hottest branch.

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Okay, we're back. Um we have already decided that yes, microwaved fruit amory can be a hug from the inside, which of itself is a phrase I'm suspicious of, but I I'm down. If you say uh if you say it warmed up is good, I'm I'm willing to try myself. This when I saw this post I a little bit lost it. And this is another one that to me, when I first looked at it, it seemed very rage baity to me. Okay. So Amory and Franny. Please look

At the thing I just sent you. This to me, I was like, this cannot be real. This is in the mildly infuriating subreddit. And it's the username has some fruit in it. Evening Tangerine 222. I like that. Um nothing like an evening tangerine. Nothing like an evening tangerine. In an evening tangerine. The rest of this episode should just be an improv.

You hear that potential? It's good. It's good. Okay, I'm very sorry. Continue. All right. This post from Evening Tanger Evening Tangerine Two Two Two says My husband is mildly infuriated that I open a banana from the antenna side. He says it should be open from the other side like monkeys. How do you open a banana? A antenna side. And I think everybody knows what that means, but that's like where the little

The little nub. The little nub. Well, it depends on your definition and nub. The handle, the little antenna, if you will. Sure. The the part that attaches it to the rest of the banana plant. And then B, it says butthole side, which I don't know that we want to think about that when we're opening a banana, but whatever the case. It's fine as long as you put some drizz on it. Oh my God. So, okay, so what's your reaction to this?

Um well I think the the bottom should only be referred to as the butthole side from now on. I think. Jesus. I actually have I witnessed an ape or a monkey peel a banana? Uh I mean I guess if that's the way it's done, then that's the way you must do it. But I mean, how do you do it? From the antenna side. Of course. And how have you ever seen any other human do it? Yeah.

Probably antenna side. Although you can it can't you like like squish it out the butthole side? Like you can you can hold it from the antenna side and squish it. And it'll come out like if you were you know it's like a fancy way of cracking an egg, except it's a fancy way of removing the banana from its casing. This is too much. This is too much for me.

I'm noticing that this post got forty thousand upvotes that. Yes. It's it's clearly struck a nerve. I feel like this is crazy. Franny, can we get a amen to the antenna side or are you Yeah, no, I've heard about opening it from the butthole side, which I think also by calling it the butthole side, this OP is clearly leading with this survey here. Um but I I like I don't like mushing the banana. Like

When you do it from the from the antenna side, the banana is pristine. It hasn't been mushed. It's the banana's the perfect snack, even though I can't eat them because they come with their own wrapper and they're very clean. So

Mm-hmm excellent points, all Franny. But here's what's weird. Look at this next post that I've sent you. This is from legit five years ago. Okay. And there are posts, when you look across Reddit, there are posts. Everywhere from like three years ago to seven years ago to five years ago to three months ago from one month ago. This is frequently posted about. I had no idea this was a debate. Same with microwaving fruit. I saw multiple posts. People people really do take their fruit seriously.

But this says change my view. It's from the Change My View subreddit. The only correct way to peel and eat a banana is from the bottom. Peeling and eating a banana from the bottom, I appreciate this description better than the butthole side, is the correct way to do so for a multitude of reasons. First off, a banana splits easier from the bottom, today I learned, so the likelihood of crushing part of the banana, Franny, due to it not opening like it does when using the stem is much lower.

That makes sense to me. You think the banana's b potentially potentially more pristine if you open it from the bottom? Yes, because haven't we all had the experience of peeling from the antenna side? And it's not quite ripe enough yet or just something goes a little wrong and suddenly you've smoked the top of the banana. Yeah. I don't have a lot of banana experience, I'm sorry.

Yeah, stop asking her banana questions, Ben. This is very If you were to try to triggering if you were to try to asphyxiate yourself. She's getting a high thinking about it. Fair. Secondly, the stem of a banana is very Clearly a handle and should be used as such. Having the extra area to grab onto makes it much easier to hold and eat overall. And when you are almost done eating it, you still have a sold.

A solid place, I assume, to hold the peel by rather than having to take the whole banana out of the skin. Thirdly, it's how the monkeys do it. While humans have evolved away from them. They have had thousands of years to protect to perfect the art of banana eating and they do it from the bottom.

Okay, final reason is a combination of the three previous that's okay, that's not a number four. Come on. It's the way nature intended it, okay? Nature constantly creates structures in the most efficient way from from honeycombs to anttails or any number of other natural structures. They are made in a way that is the most efficient. So if you are not supposed to eat a banana from the bottom, why is the stem a handle and why does the bottom split easier and why do monkeys eat it the correct way?

So please, incorrect banana eaters, bring me to your side and change my view. I'm not buying the handle business. That's too tiny of a handle. You know, you're still gonna end up holding most of the body of the banana, even if you peel it from the bottom.

Or else you're really balancing that banana from that little teeny tiny stem. I don't buy it. I think what this makes me think about is like One of the beauties of Reddit and other internet communities, but it seems very specifically Reddit-Y to me, is like it just reminds me that there's whole debates that I just I can't believe that I didn't know that there was another way to do it. Like there's a whole new banana opening world that I didn't even know about.

Uh that is true. And I can't believe that this first post that you sent, this this couple that is supposedly married I if did you scroll down and look at any of the comments? A little bit. Yeah. So the top comment is a great little gif of a chimp and the comment is OP's husband watching from the pantry. It's pretty funny.

OP responds and says, Literally, I offered him a bite because I realized he was watching me and he's like, No, I can't believe you right now. You opened it from the wrong side. Which really makes it seem like this is the first time that this married couple have ever witnessed each other engaging in the art of banana eating. Yeah. The other thing that's interesting or another positive way of spinning this is No matter how long you've been with your partner, you're gonna discover new things.

That's right. Also, we don't do a lot of things that that apes and monkeys do for the record. So we can eat our bananas however the hell we want. Yeah. As long as we microwave them. Um, listeners, we would love to hear from you uh on where you fall. via both of these issues, microwaving fruit and which end of the banana you doth open said banana from. Uh because it's important to Amory and I to know whose side you're on. And

whether or not you should be listened to in the future. Yeah, please and whether or not we should, honestly. Because I open I open mine from the stem side and so does Amory. We may lose a bunch of listeners. Well, when I get my next banana, I'm gonna open it from the butt side. I feel like you didn't want me to say butthole, so I said butt. But then I just said butthole, so here we are again. You know, whatever. It's I'm gonna open it from the bottom. Yes.

And then I'm gonna pop it right in the microwave and I'll report back on both experiences. Okay. All right, great. I look forward to your exhaustive report. And nobody send Franny any fresh banana. Unless it has instructions to be microwaved. Right. Banana bread, she'll take it all. Warm it up. Bananas foster. Sure. Well Eat your fruit. Eat your fruit. There's nothing. WBUR in Boston. Produced by Frannie Monahan and us, Amory C. And and sound design by Emily Jankowski, Original Music, A.K.

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