slo’s TUESDAY 5/13 poll - Fruit Cocktail 🍑🍐🍍🍇🍒

[slo]

Fruit cocktail is a nice healthy treat for many people. You can eat it out of a can or make it yourself. Typically the fruits in fruit cocktail from most to least are peaches, pears, pineapple, grapes and cherry halves. Don’t always get hoodwinked into thinking that all fruit cocktails are healthy - many canned ones are in heavy or light sugary syrup. Give us your fruity thoughts on fruit cocktail today……

What’s your opinion of fruit cocktail?
When you eat it……do you eat it canned or freshly made?
(multiple choice)



For Me…….i have never been a big fan of fruit cocktail, so therefore I never eat it. I did vote that it’s edible, because I will eat it if it’s put in front of me. I do enjoy each of the fruits individually, just not mixed together.

 

[Kitty 34]

too sweet for me; it's ok tho.

 

[loves to dive]

I like it o.k. and will eat both canned and fresh. I tend to buy the canned in winter time when I can't find very many good fresh options. When I buy the canned I try to find the ones without any syrup or with light syrup. I like to mix it with cottage cheese for a healthy snack with some protein after I've worked out.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

It's not something I have a lot, but I like it. As far as canned vs fresh, I like both, but fresh is always better.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Love it - used to eat it a lot as a kid and young adult - canned version- have not had it in years - we rarely had fresh fruit when I was a kid always canned fruit

 

[AppleDumpling]

Haven’t had it in years, once in awhile as a kid. The only canned fruit I eat these days is pineapple, which I have occasionally with ham.

Don’t know about fresh fruit cocktail. I do make/eat what I call fruit salad…is there a difference? Typically that has melon, sometimes berries, pineapple, grapes, etc.

 

[Meriweather]

I don't eat canned, but any fresh made fruit mix is fine by me.
We also call fresh just fruit salad

 

[clappyclaps]

I like the canned, probably because of the sugary syrup, but dont eat it anymore for that reason.

Like freshly made too but dont really eat that either, tend to just buy individual fruits and eat separately like a bowl of strawberries etc rather than a full on fruit salad.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

I really liked canned fruit cocktail as a kid, especially the maraschino cherries. It was often in our school lunches. I prefer making it fresh now.

 

[Wood Nymph]

I haven't had canned fruit cocktail in ages. My mom used to buy it all the time. I only eat fresh fruit salad now.

 

[Moliphino]

They're alright. We occasionally buy the little plastic cups and throw them in a sangria.

 

[mjkacmom]

I think it’s gross, haven’t eaten it since I was a kid, haven’t been offered it since. I like fruit salad, pineapple, fresh berries, mango..

 

[lanejudy]

I prefer fresh fruit and occasionally will make a fruit salad though I rarely use the fruits "traditionally" found in the canned fruit cocktail. DH and DD both like the little cups so I try to buy it in 100% juice or whatever it's called instead of the syrup. Sometimes I'll buy larger cans and redistribute it to individual rubbermaid containers for them.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I remember having the canned stuff back when I was a kid. It was a real treat if I got a serving that had extra cherries. The pears weren't bad either. I think canned fruit is what led me to disliking peaches so much and why I only go for fresh grapes. These days, I'm more inclined to just make my own, which will be heavy on my favorite fruits.

 

[LoveDaisy]

The last time I had canned fruit cocktail was as a kid. My gram would add it to jello. None of us liked it, the grand kids would try to eat the jello around it and adults would avoid it. I didn’t even know they still made it.

My memory was the fruit was never ripe. It was always hard and had no flavor. Is it better today?

 

[ronandannette]

I like it. The canned version is a throw-back to my childhood. The fresh version is practically ubiquitous on any buffet table and we always call it fruit salad.

 

[Micca]

I liked it a lot as a kid, probably wouldn't eat it now.

 

[BrianL]

I like it fine, but I haven't had it in forever. It is not something that I buy. It reminds me of school lunches.

 

[lovesmurfs]

It's okay -- we had it a LOT growing up. Now we buy several cans when we're doing hurricane preparedness, but it takes a while for us to use it up.

I do like fresh, but I call it "fruit salad" - the cocktail I guess is the syrup in the can?

 

[evilmommie]

Never canned. Ever, ever, ever!!!
Love to make a fresh fruit salad, but have never considered that fruit cocktail.