Anyone else have a really hard time eating a peach?

[Bertha Venation]

It’s the fuzz. When I’m eating the peach (as one would eat a whole apple), the fuzz is like nails on a chalkboard to me, and the sense-memory remains for hours.

When I’m home I can cut it into wedges and peel off the skin. But when I’m at work I eat a peach whole.

And no, in this for me there is no “just don’t eat it.” It’s something I’m willing to experience to enjoy the exquisite texture and flavor of the peach.

I just want to know if I’m the only one.

[Deep13]

1. Sure, ma-a-a-an!

[Bertha Venation]

2. That actually took less time than I thought it would.

It was inevitable. :thumbsup:

But I'm serious about peaches.

[MineralMan]

3. I do not dare to eat a peach.

[woo me with science]

10. Very nice.

You beat me to it.

[MineralMan]

13. English majors rule!

[Scout]

4. can't STAND peaches ... not the real thing, not peach schapps, not the smell

ICK

:puke:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. That's why I prefer nectarines

No fuzz. :hi:

[KamaAina]

20. Did you know? Nectarines have their own bard, too. Keats, no less.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/40523.html

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. Embonpoint

The condition of being plump; stoutness. http://www.answers.com/embonpoint

Sounds yummy! :9

[gbate]

6. Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man in a factory downtown.

[fizzgig]

11. thanks for the earworm

x(

[Frosty1]

7. I can't stand the fuzz

The only way I will eat them is if someone else peels them first. You're right about fingernails on a chalkboard, it does the same thing for me.
:scared:

[Arkansas Granny]

8. Have you tried washing the peach in cool water and rubbing it dry with

a kitchen towel or paper towel? That should remove most of the fuzz without peeling the peach.

[Bertha Venation]

9. I do that and it helps, a little.

Strange that the sensation remains when the visible fuzz is removed.

[fizzgig]

12. i wouldn't eat sliced fresh peaches when i was a kid

that redish, kinda jagged part that was attached to the pit grossed me out

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

14. We had an evil old babsitter once

who scared the living shit out of us by telling us that she knew a girl who took one bite out of an unwashed peach and keeled over dead. Not a big fan of peaches. Nectarines are much easier.

[HopeHoops]

15. I eat the skin on a kiwi fruit, so peach fuzz is nothing.

The problem I DO have with a peach is when the pit isn't the cling sort (which is opposite of what it means). Getting the fruit from the pit is messy and puts you at great risk of chipping a tooth.

[hippywife]

19. Cling peaches

are exactly what they are...the fruit clings to the pit. Freestone peaches are the ones that don't cling to the pit.

[Doc_Technical]

16. Thanks for the earworm!

Now I'll have "Meat Man" by Jerry Lee Lewis
running through my head for the next several hours.

[dynasaw]

17. Are You T.S. Eliot?

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach."

[Dystopian]

21. Are you my shrink?

Dr. Franklin, is that you??:crazy:

I just copy/pasted part of a rambling email I sent a few days ago...



>And so, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T. S. Eliot immediately came to mind.
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
I used to see a shrink who would throw out random trivia at me...I guess it was his thing, a rather eccentric old guy...And I think he really enjoyed his games with me, as I usually got it...And so one day as I was leaving his office, as he was opening the door for me, he asked, "Do I dare to eat a peach?" And without missing a beat, I replied as I continued to walk out the door, "I grow old. I grow old. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled." Now can you imagine a room full of patients wondering what the hell I was doing, talking to myself as I left? Saying those words..? They probably felt a tad bit more sane as I walked out of the room. This was about 15-20 years ago...and, as you can see, still roll my 'trousers'.....So all that passed through my mind while ..<

I'm just posting this boring trivia because I can:o
And the poem was also the first thing I thought of when reading the post...

:hi:


peace~

[mzteris]

18. when i was little

we had a peach tree in the backyard (we lived - where else? Georgia!)

I hated that fuzz, too - and I soon learned to "peel it with my teeth and fingernails" - so the fuzz wouldn't get on my lips. It's messy, but who cares?

[auntAgonist]

22. I break out in hives if I eat the skin of a peach.

I have to peel it. Always.

I can't stand the feel of a peach with the skin on. I DO love peaches though.

I eat a LOT of nectarines. I know it's not the same, but they are good.

:hug:

aA
kesha

[astral]

24. I had that trouble with peaches too.

I didn't even want to bother with them but if I did I had to slide the peel away and not even eat it. I recently bought peaches at Costco, though, 'cuz they smelled so good they made my mouth water, and they were delicious -- but barely any fuzz on them which was why i let myself buy them.

[elleng]

25. Yup!

therefore, nectarines my faves!