To be dreading the onset of summer fruit season?

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

Because it's met with a chorus of people who make a point of heavily stating their preference for raspberries over strawberries in a manner that suggests they are the only ones who can tell the different?

Or has sleep deprivation finally finished off any tolerance whatsoever?

even.

I do feel a bit better actually sparkling

Rhubarb crumble = yes please

Gooseberries = yuck.

We have strawberry plants give the most delicious strawberries. Can't beat freshly picked fruit

I could just eat some Rhubarb Crumble with double cream now....

You are all wrong.

Nice sharp blackeberries is what you want.

Bring on autumn.

Raspberries taste nicer than strawberries and smell delicious, but they're completely ruined by the damned seeds. It's not just the fact that they stick in your teeth, it's the feeling when you crunch on them [shudder]

I love Blackberries but don't like the seeds.

Raspberries clearly always better

Don't mind blackberries picked stolen from a bush somewhere but the ones you get in the supermarket are too weird - enormous and stretched and like a Dr Who alien with hundreds of bulbous black eyes. They have clearly come here to destroy mankind and rule over the earth with their evil bulbousness.

The worst thing about strawberries is she people produce them for pudding and expect you to swoon. Gah! I like them for snacking, but not for pudding!

Arf at Quangle.

I grow really nice blackberries on my allotment. No skill involved. But yes they are trying to take over...I will watch the little beggars carefully.

We are nearly bankrupted by the dcs capacity for doughnut peaches and berries of all descriptions, thank god dh is a grocer!

You're all wrong. Ripe apricots are the BEST.

Ooh blackberries, yes, I love those too. We grow the fat ones. They're fabulous IMHO.
Blueberries are quite dull things to eat, but a pretty colour and the DCs love them.

Buy frozen raspberries and defrost... Much cheaper. Divine. I do like strawberries though. But not gooseberries .... Bluegh!

I have wild blackberry bushes outside my house and a corporation cherry tree at the end of the road. I love picking the fruit before the pigeons get to it. Free food for jam and vodkas.

I like a nectarine

YAB Unhinged, definitely!

You are also seriously unreasonable to be shortening the names of the fruit to strawbs and rasps. It sets my teeth on edge completely.

No raspberries here, I fail to grow them. But we'll have some strawberries from the hanging baskets bird feeders and hundreds of wild blackberries from the plants that are trying to take over through the fence.

I slightly prefer rasps to strawbs, like currants of all colours & gooseberries. Agree peaches can be furry & odd - like eating mice - prefer nectarines. Blackberries are my favourite though

Dreading? Really?

Strawberries all the way

The warm sweetness that you can see has no insects in it

Bloody raspberries always have wee bugs trying to hide imside

Why do people heavily state they prefer raspberries to strawberries OP? Is it because Strawberries are considered common or summat? Like : 'my Dc only eat Kumquats' type thing?
I only ask because 'oop North' here and never heard such a thing? Fruit is fruit and usually delicious from a PYO farm and I'd be happy as long as the DS was filling his basket (face) with anything reasonably healthy!

like eating mice [Waaahh]

In my back garden I grow blueberries, raspberries, red currants, black currants, joster berries, gooseberries & for Mother's Day I had a fruit cherry tree! I love all British fruit & enjoy being able to grow my own summer pudding!
I never had much success growing strawberries though

Doughnut peaches are the best fruit ever.