1. Fresh Cherries- Get them out of here! That's just going to have to suffice. Anything that makes the number one spot of a subjective "most disgusting this thing" list is obviously just completely unappealing to the person polled.
2. Plum- I'm pretty sure I haven't had one since I was five, but I remembering it providing little in the way of awesomeness, in sharp contrast to fruits like mango, blueberry, peach and even banana. Honestly, the latter garners so much of it's popularity from its useful form and the practical ease associated with eating one in real life. I haven't heard much support for the plum during my life, and certainly none from anyone my age. That may have to with the fact that I can't remembering ever seeing a young person eating a plum.
3. Olive- Man, these things are gross! Green or black, they are both very unappetiziing to me. I am capable of tasting some difference between the two, but it just doesn't matter to me. I will avoid every single one if I'm eating a salad with them in it, and if olives are baked into something, I'll probably just skip it. This is one of the foods where I'm fairly certain that if I was able to taste some of the best or most famous olives in the world, I would try them, but still refuse to eat them later. I could easily see olives and plums switching places at some point.
4. Grapefruit- I used to think that this was an age-dependant fruit, but I'm not sure I still believe this. Surely, there are many people of all ages who dislike grapefruit. Recently, I've come to ponder whether some young people like it, and frankly, why couldn't they? If you ingore that grapefruit is bitter, harsh, and less tasty and usbale than its counterparts the orange, lemon, and lime, or like those reasons, then the grapefruit is for you. All it takes is one eye squirting experience to disuade most of the on the fencers, and if that's not enough, the second is probably not that far off.
5. Apple- See, here's where things get interesting. Or boring, depending on how much you enjoy marginalized topics. I don't find the apple gross, or bizarre, I don't have a terrible life experoence connected with the apple, and the taste isn't horrible (I wouldn't have apple in my 10 least favorite foods). Nevertheless, it's not that good, particuarly refreshing, nearly all other fruits taste better, it has some seeds get in the way, and the apple is way too hard. It's also a little too difficult to eat the middle, and the whole process is messier than it's given credit for. I really believe ideally you might desire one napkin per apple eating experience, so it's instantly in that category.
I truly didn't intend for this to be either a top or bottom 5 list, but that's honestly that's all the fruit I can think of not liking right now. The rest all range from decent to amazing. I can't say that I've ever had raw beet though. And I also haven't figured out if beet is classified as fruit or vegetable or both, but I believe the vegetable part may only inculde the root and leaves. Whether that encompasses all of a beet, I am unsure.
Apparently, by botanical definition, a strawberry is a vegetable. It'd be good to know of there are layers or distinctions within "botanical definition", whether some are more of vegetables than others, if that's even possible. For instance, tomato is by botanical definition, a fruit, but the word "strict" didn't precede "botanical definition" in the text I read, so what's the deal with that? It seems like a fair number of people consider tomato a fruit, but certainly not strawberry. Perhaps it's irrelevant, because the Supreme Court did in fact rule that tomato is legally a vegetable.
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