What’s Your Favorite Pear?

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Taylor's Gold Pear - but they are absurdly expensive.

A lot of times, pears aren’t ripe when you buy them. I used to like to bring them to the beach. I’d either leave them on the dashboard in the parking lot, or in a plastic bag and bring them with me and leave them in the sun. They basically cook in the sun, and after a few hours, they’re sweet and juicy. Just perfect.

I usually purchase red pears, so I believe they must be Red Anjou. Pear trees are very long-lived. There is a pear tree in the back yard three houses down that was there when I was a little boy (a long time ago). Traditionally, pears were eaten at table, with a silver fruit knife, peeling and coring the fruit before succumbing to its simple blandishments.

I really like a low-hanging pear.

[quote] R2: Taylor's Gold Pear

Yeah, these look good.

I like bosc pears. Those are the ones that are good for baking, no?

The Anjou is the understated pear.

A nice, juicy, ripe Bartlett with some blue cheese and walnuts is my idea of heaven.

Asian pears always seem watery to me.

Racist!

I like the Christmas Pear.

Here’s a pear for you! 💍

I like au-pair

My favorite pear is actually spelled pair.

-ry King.

I'm going to cheat. My favorite is the quince

Quince jelly is a rare treat!

This thread has gone pear-shaped!

I learned this expression in a bank heist/British spy/1970s retro movie. Since it came out, I’ve heard the expression more and more in the US.

I don't usually like pears because in my experience they tend to be mushy. Are there non-mushy pears?

Those Royal Riviera's from Harry and David

R20, they don’t start mushy. You must eat them too late.

Isn’t the “Bartlett”, the boring pear?

R23 Let Bartlett be Bartlett!

They're out of season, OP.

Clapp's Favorite originally bred in Dorchester, Massachusetts. We even have a giant bronze statue to commemorate this amazing feat.

If I can’t have the carbon one, I’d like a red one.

Pears are the 9ne fruit I prefer over ripe rather than under. The blue cheese and walnuts sounds delicious.

R20 Asian pears are not mushy. They are crisp and crunchy and as someone pointed out watery. I also find them the least chemically in taste.

Thank you all for the tips. I confess my experience with pears is limited to whatever my mom brought home from the grocery store, probably pre-bagged with no indication of type. Asian pears sound perfect.

Just had a disappointing Bosc Pear.

I prefer "Asian" pears.

Ask me again in Autumn.

Those otherwise inedible hard green pears are delicious poached in white wine and a vanilla pod, then served cold.

What’s your favorite banana?

Comice is my favorite pear. it's the sweetest.

[quote]What’s your favorite banana?

Bananas are ghetto.

I'm allergic to them.

If I eat one I come out in spots on my hands and arms.

It's a shame because I love Williams pears, but just can't eat them. Conference pears are horrid.

Bananas rule, R37! The heck with you, you fruit dufus!

I'm not saying they're bad. They're just ghetto, R39.

Like nectarines.

I read once that there is only one banana variety that most people eat, and if there’s ever a, what, virus?, blight, I guess, we’ll, no more bananas. We'll have to eat ersatz bananas.

We had a Kieffer Pear tree in our yard when I was a kid. I love them, big, crunchy and flavorful.

I like the kind you get in a can.

R20 Asian pears are not mushy. They are crunchy.

I buy a bag of Barlett organic pears that come in a bag. I buy them when they are a little green. They take turns ripening up and are delicious.

Pears smell of chemicals to memore than other fruit.

Garbanzo

Ya’ll basic.

A nice crisp white wine, a plate of stilton, and an anjou pear..... you haven't lived until you partake.

I like pears with Parmigiano-Reggiano and walnuts.

I like my pears and apples to be crisp in their texture, so Bosc is my favorite variety. But after looking at the site linked in R1, I want to try a Concorde. It looks like it should be crispy like a Bosc, but sweeter. I've never seen one in a store. Does anyone in Texas know which stores might carry them? Central Market, maybe?