Eating habits

[Hoogstwaarschijnlijk]

Both apples and pears make my ears itching 🤔😅

[linguoboy]

Both apples and pears make my ears itching 🤔😅

"...make my ears itch" or "...make my ears itchy".
That's a bummer.

My flatmate has some funny preferences around fruits. Apparently he's legit allergic to apricots and peaches. But when I tried to offer him some pączki last week, but he refused not only the apricot but also the raspberry and plum. Fortunately, he loves apples and we mostly agree on varieties (though he's more bullish on the ubiquitous Honeycrisps than I am and rather less fond of Galas).

[Hoogstwaarschijnlijk]

Both apples and pears make my ears itching 🤔😅

"...make my ears itch" or "...make my ears itchy".
That's a bummer.
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I see it as the perfect excuse to not eat them. I don't really like fruit in general. I eat 1/2 banana in my breakfast and during the summer I like to eat strawberries and blackberries and melon but that's it.

I can handle apple when it's been heated so apple pie goes fine 😎

[linguoboy]

I can handle apple when it's been heated so apple pie goes fine 😎

Makes me wonder what's in there that cooks out.

I have a similar problem with tomatoes. There's something in raw tomatoes that makes me gag. It's not so strong with commercial hothouse tomatoes (though who wants to eat those?) but just the smell of a homegrown tomato can provoke a gag reflex in me. Whatever it is totally cooks out though because I've never had the same reaction to tomato sauce, even when it's homemade from homegrown tomatoes.

[vijayjohn]

I think apples are a bit like potatoes, though, in that there are many kinds and many qualities. An apple can be horrible junk, as can a potato. They can also both be absolutely delicious.

They also seem to be hard and/or crunchy, though, which I don't care for.

I just don't get why they're so popular.

Clementines? Because they taste good?