To think what is the point in 'ripen at home' fruit.

[PoppingOneOutIn2020]

22 weeks pregnant and craving the bollucks off some nectarines.

I live in a small town with 2 food shops, both of which only stock a small fruit selection and the only pissing nectarines they have are solid 'ripen at home' ones.

Who the hell buys riown at home fruit? Surely when you want fruit you want to est it, not watch it like watching paint dry until it's good enough to eat.

I fuckin' hate the co-op.

I’m not pregnant and I’ve been having ridiculous cravings for them. I’ve got two in the fridge now and my mouth is watering. I hope you get one soon

Could some melon hit the spot? I had cravings for juicy fresh fruit and ate endless melons and peaches.

Its ok if they have both ripe now and ripen at home available. Frustrating when all they have is the ripen at home stuff and you want something now.

Its ok, DP bought home ripen at home nectarines ready for a few days time when the same thing happens again, and a selection of banana yoghurt and Maltesers to make up for the loss of nectarine lol.

Oh my goodness yes this was my craving, I was so irritated too!

That stuff always stays rock bloody hard then goes mouldy.

Lidl ripe and ready nectarines are lovely, though why you should have to pay 70p more for fruit you can actually eat, gawd knows.

Lidl were selling tree ripened plums today. I thought wtf? How do they normally ripen plums and how old are they when we buy them?

The lidl ripe and ready nectarines are what's kick started my craving! I find lidl fruit is probably the best fruit I've ever brought from a supermarket. They big punnets of fresh British strawberries are absolutely divine!

I buy it because I shop on a weekend and by Tuesday/ midweek there’s loads of fresh fruit ready!
We tend to eat the already ripe stuff like grapes and melon in the first few days

YANBU the ripen at home nectarines always go manky before they are ripe enough to eat. I bought some 'ready ripe' ones the other day and they still took a couple of days, though they were nice.

Been saying for years that ripen at home fruit is the biggest rip off ever. It never does. It just goes off.

@Flatwhite101
Your list is spot on
Any ripen at home fruit will ripen if you store it with or next to bananas, it's the bananas that give off the gas that encourages other fruit to ripen. Although that could have been a marketing ploy to get people to but banana hanging tree like things.

Buy obviously not but

In France, I literally ate 6-8 peaches a day when we were there on holiday. Imagine the concept of small, family run markets with ripe fruit picked that day?!

And pears can fuck off too

Fuck pears, half of the bloody things are floury, solid bland bastards.

I'm going to grow my own fruit trees and solve this once and for all.

Even ripen at home bananas are a swizz. Even kept in a bowl with already ripe bananas, you just end up with starchy bananas with soggy black bits because someone, somewhere in the packaging line, played football with them, just like all the rest.

Ripen them in microwave

I need a Spanish poolside holiday, all inclusive so I can have as much juicy fresh fruit as I like.

Maybe after January I can have a Spanish holiday and enjoy the fresh fruit.. as a cocktail too..

A made the mistake of getting some "ripen at home" bananas. They went from green to black without pausing for the nicely ripened bit

Enjoy all the fresh produce while you can 46 days

@MrsElizabethShelby
Dont you bloody start this as a Brexit thread!

Are you on about Brexit? I've started ignoring the news.

Ive conveniently trained my tinnitus to flare up when I hear 'Boris Johnson' 'Brexit' 'No Deal' and also 'Donald Trump'

Actually, 43 days isn't long at all

YABU to eat nectarines YANBU to want fruit you can eat. I’m nearly 30 weeks pregnant and craved Clementines until around 20 weeks, like you kick started by Lidl selling those lovely big boxes, then I couldn’t get those anymore and all the Clementines were dried out little shitty things!! It broke me a little, I won’t deny it.

Avocados are the worst. Never buy an unripe avocado, you may as well chuck it straight in the bin.

"Ripen at home" fruit never ripens. It's inedibly hard for a few days then inedibly rotten after that. I won't buy fruit from Asda any more because they refuse to stock ripe stuff and anything bought there would just go into the bin. Fruit purchases have to wait until I go to a decent shop.