You are probably right, Oscar, about the cheesecake. I guess my idea of a fruit reaching excellent status is somewhat dependent on its being able to be enjoyed out of hand and without too much processing. Oranges are great out of hand and for juicing, the juice to be used as an enhancer in other things. Sour Sop (guanabana)...the good ones at least.....great flavor, very poor to eat out of hand. So maybe I am putting an unnecesary stipulation into the definition of a good eating fruit, but that's the way my brain works. Raspberries and blackberries also fall into this category. Love raspberry flavoring/juice or backberry wine or other preparations, but the fruits I would never eat out of hand. Too many damned seeds. I guess I just have a sensitivity to it. I'm the guy that always finds stuff in my food when out at a restaurant. So far, I have found a staple, wooden skewer, glass, plastic from a shattered container in the kitchen, that pit hiding in the pitted cherry, or that wayward chicken bone in the bonelss breast of chicken always seems to find me. For me, a fruit with abundant, juicy and nicely textured flesh, like a smooth fiberless mango makes that fruit elevate into super-stardom. Or maybe I just have a sensitivity that everyone else thinks is silly and I should just get over it, enjoy the taste of the fruit and spit the seeds out or swallow them!
Harry
