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?

Loganberries are the best

Two words - FLAT PEACHES.

If you've never eaten a flat peach you've not lived.

What is a flat peach? Can one get in the UK?

(Bet you are in forrin climes, avec pomelos and durian fruit)

Non, mon ami, je suis sous la pluie avec les autre Anglaises. :)

I buy my Flat peaches from the stalls in the city market or from Sainsburys/Tesco/Waitrose. You just have to try them, they're sweeter and less fuzzy than normal peaches.

I've never had a tayberry, a loganberry or a mulberry.
I have bought a 'tayberry tree' from a bijoux little fruitier that I know Poundland . It may look like a small stick with some even smaller sticks attached right now, but soon it will be orchard-esque.

LookHowTheyShineForYou why were you traumatised by your apples? The sheer quantity? That will happen with my tayberries I expect

Flat peaches, those are the donut peaches that a pp referred to I think.
Loganberries and Tay berries sound good. I'm not sure I've had them.
Red currants are pretty but too much faff for not enough fruit. Ribena need all the black currants so I don't eat those.

Yes, flat peaches / donut peaches are fabulous. Our Sainsburies never has them, but the local greengrocers has huge baskets full of them, absolutely divine, both the yellow and white ones. I've got them from Tesco before as well.

Raspberries are wonderful. My favourite fruit in the world. But in My Glorious Reign they, and strawberries will be outlawed as the only sure way of stopping anyone saying/writing strawbs or rasps. Or strawb's or rasp's.

Summer? What's that?

Strawberry and gooseberry pie is wonderful.

What about the hairs though MrsDB? [sa]d

OP, I have sneaking suspicion that really you love discussing the heirarchy of summer fruits, and have just started this thread to entice others into your web of berries...

Oh the hairs are absorbed in the general mushiness.

Treaclepot

Blackberries are the answer to everything.

red and white currants : pretty bushes, fruit prolifically, do not transport so expensive in the shops
we get so many that we make granita
same with loganberries