Hot (and not) fruit takes
Endless Thread
WBUR
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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What temperature do you like your fruit? What is the correct way to peel a banana? This week on Endless Thread, Ben and Amory cherry pick a couple of the hottest fruit debates taking place on Reddit.
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| 0:29.0 | Emery, what are all your hot fruit takes? |
| 0:31.7 | Do you prefer your fruit hot or not? |
| 0:37.3 | We might be going in the same direction on this one I think judging by the question |
| 0:42.0 | you just asked no no no no that was a joke so now I'm really excited we're about to talk about |
| 0:47.8 | hot fruit Jesus maybe I'm okay all right I prefer my fruit at all temperatures depending upon Maybe. Okay. All right. |
| 0:59.6 | I prefer my fruit at all temperatures depending upon my mood. |
| 1:00.7 | Oh, that's interesting. |
| 1:03.4 | I waver towards room temperature. |
| 1:04.7 | Really? |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.7 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:08.9 | Do not want to bite into a cold apple. |
| 1:10.8 | Do not want to bite into a cold strawberry. Do not want to bite into a cold strawberry? |
| 1:13.9 | Oh, terrible cold strawberries. |
| 1:20.7 | This is so interesting because this is a perfect, perfect setup for the conversation we're about to have or that we are now officially having. Because I'm a cold, cold or nothing person. I want my grapefruit chilled. |
| 1:28.8 | I want my apple as crispy and chilly as possible. |
| 1:32.4 | I want my oranges cold. |
| 1:34.9 | I want my grapes cold, even better frozen. |
| 1:38.4 | A citrus fruit, I will say, like, that is good, slightly chilled, not too cold. And I do like a frozen grape, |
| 1:45.9 | but, but you must not have very sensitive teeth because like a cold apple to me, |
| 1:50.8 | that's horrible. It can get you. And you're not supposed to refrigerate your apples, right? |
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