Fruit is NOT a special dessert.

[CCaK]

Discuss.

I won't say which side I'm on.

Is a special dessert fruit?

Or

A big gooey sticky toffee pud/cheesecake/pie and custard.

Fruit on its own is not dessert

But IMO fruits are beautiful and can go with a dessert to make it exquisite

Like poached pears, orange caramel, trifle, any fruit pie or crumble, lemony anything! Chocolate with any berries.

So for me, plain fruit - no. But fruit and something delicious would win me over.

Fruit is really expensive once you get to the nice stuff like raspberries and a luxury / treat when you’re feeding hungry mouths

We had some lovely raspberries yesterday. Really sweet and fragrant. Best of the season so far.

Banana fritters and ice cream nice.

Forest fruit crumble, nice with custard

Boring fruit in a bowl with nothing added, a bit miserable.

Rhubarb, slowly cooked add Greek yogurt
Melon & strawberry’s with a scattering of blueberries
Hot fruit salad with star anise

Nope. Fruits are what we have to eat everyday and dessert is a special nice treat. I wouldn't consider an ordinary food to be a special treat.

It depends on the context. For example, at the moment I buy a couple of mangos a week. My children love them, and on the day one is ripe, it is definitely a treat for them to have it after lunch etc. So it is a 'special dessert'. Similarly once a week as the moment we will have berries with cream, and it is viewed as a treat, and therefore 'special'.
However, if it was my husbands birthday, or we had guests for a special meal or just sunday lunch, and I excitedly went and fetched a ripe mango to peel instead of a cake/dessert such as you describe, there would be disappointment and it would not seem special.

Fruit is what I put in a little tub to snack on at break times at work to keep me away from chocolate.

I haven’t really eaten much fruit since lockdown. I much prefer veggies...

MIL always serves soup for lunch and then brings the fruit bowl to the table and offers it round. I find that weird, it would never occur to me to eat fruit AFTER a meal. I would either have a proper dessert as a treat or nothing at all.

A fruit salad which someone else has made is definitely a treat imo.

I'm not sure that apple and banana counts though, I think you'd need at least 3 fruits to qualify as a fruit salad.

Fruit is not dessert full stop.
It's a snack or goes with breakfast.

Fruit is something to be eaten before a meal - not after!

Nice fruit is pretty much a daily thing in out house, my daughter and I love it (although I hate strawberries which is highly controversial😂)
Whenever I fo a really fancy dinner, I AM the dessert queen so along with my molten chocolate mousse cake, baked Alaska, souflees, etc I always fo a plate of really lovely fruits. Ripe mango and super sweet pineapple, lychees, dragon fruits, great charantais melon if I can get it, and raspberries. I fo get the strawberries gorceveryobe else. When they are beautifully prepared and ripe they ate wonderful. I tend to go for the fruit or plain ice cream I'm not into cooked fruit.

So @CCaK which camp are you in?

traditionally fruit very much is a dessert - "eating" apples (as opposed to cooking apples) are also known as Dessert Apples. the very word Dessert initially meant a fruit course (properly done with beautiful cascading fruit arrangements).

obviously something with cream and chocolate and lots of fat is a fantastic end to a meal but we shouldn't let that be our default assumption for how a good meal should end. I would agree that "ordinary boring" fruits don't make a "special" dessert, just an ordinary dessert. but more unusual or difficult fruits like a whole fresh pineapple for example could certainly be special.

Fruit is not a special dessert. It is an essential food group.

My elderly French in-laws eat is quite an old fashioned country way and they only eat fruit occasionally and only as a dessert.

I grew up in a very different way with cases of different fruit always around, and it was what we ate everyday throughout the day and not saved for special desserts. TBH, dessert was not a part of our diet as it is not part of the traditional cuisine that my parents grew up in, so it was not a part of our lifestyle.

I do understand that to my in-law's generation, except for summer fruit, it was just not around much and was seen as a luxury. However, today with even berries readily available frozen, it really is not a luxury.

No chocolate, no cream or ice cream, no caramel or custard - not dessert to me
Fruit is a snack

Fruit isn't a special dessert. It's an everyday staple.

We don't eat dessert really in our house. We only have it if we go out for a meal. Sometimes DS has a jelly pot after dinner.

Not a 'special' dessert, but if had after dinner, before bed than my kids would consider a piece of fruit dessert.

obviously something with cream and chocolate and lots of fat is a fantastic end to a meal but we shouldn't let that be our default assumption for how a good meal should end.

It is my default assumption and always will be

Discuss?

No.

If someone gave me fruit for dessert I'd be so pissed off! That is no way at all a special dessert!

My grandma and aunts had a policy of bananas only being for the grown ups when we visited in the 70s. Definitely a hangover from rationing. But even they would have tinned fruit cocktail with evaporated milk. Their special dessert was jelly and blancmange -the flavours rotated between strawberry, chocloate or vanilla on a 3 weekly basis. To me, fruit in its natural state is not special-it's what we have when I didn't get anything in for pudding.

Someone from a poor family might think of it as a special dessert as they're family probably can't afford dessert or their five a day.

I don't generally eat puddings, but I'm more likely to have some yogurt and fruit rather than a chocolate or sticky toffee pudding.

I would say fruit is a snack.

Fruit is never a fucking treat!!! Unless it's backed into a pudding or cake, even then I want it so sugary and sweet it no longer resembles the fruit it once was.
Anyone who offers up fruit as a desert or tries to pass it off as a treat needs punched in the face.

It is if it’s a really good fruit, like a perfectly ripe mangosteen or lychees. I’d take those over sticky toffee pud any day.