The stealth mouldy blueberry.

[ScribblyGum]

Ruiners of breakfast.

I’m rapidly losing faith in their promised magical properties of health boosting vitality when they REPEATEDLY trick me with their covert decomposing ways.

Prunes never dicked me about like this.

I chuck frozen raspberries straight into my breakfast porridge, they defrost on no time and no mental effort/planning required.

Ocado do frozen organic wild blueberries, available on their own or as part of a mix with raspberries, blackberries & blackcurrents by Picard. They have just intro frozen organic normal blueberries too (different brand).

@FourPlasticRings

I'm with you, OP. I have to inspect them individually before adding them to food. It's ridiculous, like I'm a bouncer employed by my own breakfast.

I do this too and I will forever more think of myself as the doorman to breakfast!

I see your blueberries and peaches and raise you avocados.

I buy a big bag from Morrisons ("wonky") and yesterday I went to eat one, only to find that FIVE if them had gone yucky. Either that or you cut them open to find they are solid and inedible. Grrrrr

I thought I was the only one crazy enough to inspect every single blueberry! See also - every other type of soft fruit. The struggle is real.

Oh and cherry tomatoes.

Frozen blueberries in Greek yoghurt are amazing

Oh, oh, and those nectarines (peaches and pears also do this) that appear to be ripe and give a little when squeezed, but when bitten reveal an underlayer so hard that your teeth actually bounce off. So they are only ripe for the first 0.001mm.

And then go straight from this state to becoming a mushy brown home for fruit flies that want an easy life.

The avocado shares its properties with the pear - rock hard for 1 week, perfect for 2 seconds, then brown and inedible. Very rarely are those 2 seconds obvious!

I’m having more luck of late with my conference pears, which is unexpectedly pleasant given their usual tendency to achieve edible status for a limited twenty minute time frame only.

Whiskery strawberries are my nemesis. One minute all plump and fresh and juicy, next minute shrivelled with beards. Bit like menopausal women really.