slo’s Tuesday 8/13 poll - Canned Fruit 🍐🍑

[unrequited23]

I buy canned pineapple and pears. Sometimes my kids go through fresh fruit faster than I think they will and I save the canned stuff to use in a pinch for their lunches for school.

 

[lanejudy]

I prefer fresh fruit but I do keep a few cans on hand for something different. Also instead of the little individual fruit cups for lunches I will buy a larger can and dish it out into my own individual-sized containers. DD loves mandarin oranges.

 

[georgina]

I strongly prefer fresh or frozen fruit. Can't remember the last time I bought canned fruit, maybe 10 years ago I bought some pears?

 

[tasha99]

I buy canned mandarin oranges, pineapple pieces, and sour cherries. Other than those, we eat fresh or frozen. We eat fresh/frozen mandarins, pineapple, and sour cherries, too, but I like having some canned available for cooking.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Seems like many of us were raised with canned fruit. Me also. Not much now though. We used to have canned peaches a lot when I was a kid. In heavy syrup. I used to like to drink the syrup. Can't imagine that now. And can't imagine a parent allowing kids to drink that heavy syrup, like a drink. These days I like those little plastic cups of diced peaches, sugar free, no sugar syrup. And I finally am able to open those little peach cups without having the liquid spill out. Marie uses some canned fruit once in a while in recipes.

Never heard of lychees.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Growing up my mother used to give us fruit cocktail out of a can and I remember liking it, but now canned fruit just tastes like tin to me.

 

[LoveDaisy]

The two I buy most often are pineapple and mandarin oranges. I can my own peaches and pears, which I think taste better than the store bought ones. I also make my own applesauce and can it because I prefer a chunky applesauce.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

Such a funny coincidence because this morning I saw a
memory photo come up on my phone of a pineapple upside cake I made 2 years ago!
My answer : the only canned fruit I buy is pineapple!

 

[jimmymc]

I only use it for recipes.

 

[BrianL]

I'm not big on it, but it's okay. I used to eat a lot of fruit cocktail when I was a kid. Generally I'd rather do fresh fruit, with the possible exception of pineapple which works well from a can. It's pretty hard to eat a fresh pineapple!

 

[HopperFan]

You know I think of this like I do Disney World and Universal. They are both theme parks but they are like fruit. Disney is the apple, the mild, the wholesome apple pie feel. Universal is the orange, a bit tart, need the palette for it.

Both canned and fresh are fruit. But one has all the natural ingredients, is healthy and fresh. The other has lots of additives, is sweet and always ready to go. I think of one a healthy snack and one a dessert.

We eat mostly fresh but might have keep a few cans of the other as a quick filler. When DS and I go to DW and pack food, we pack cans of fruit cocktail and use it as a side/salad so I don't have to haul a bunch of fresh.

 

[hertamaniac]

Canned apricots. Sometimes the reduced or no sugar added fruits too.

 

[NannyBeBe]

Getting fresh ripe fruit is nearly impossible where I live. Pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, etc., are never good. If I want pears or peaches, I buy canned. My favorite is canned freestone peaches, but I haven't seen them in the stores for a very long time.

 

[ronandannette]

I was raised on it and I like it. My mother would buy summer fruits by the bushel and home-can them because nothing of quality was available fresh during the winter. I never learned to do that myself and of course now there is no necessity, but I still buy it sometimes.

 

[RedAngie]

Generally no, no canned fruit for me.

When I was a kid my mother bought the cling peaches or fruit cocktail in heavy syrup but I never liked them.

I’d try to swipe the one lonesome cherry from the fruit cocktail.

 

[lovesmurfs]

It's funny. I never realized I'd stopped buying canned fruit years ago, unless it was in a recipe (usually pineapple or mandarin oranges). We've just moved to Central Florida, and part of the hurricane prep is canned fruits -- when I sent my husband he couldn't even find the aisle it was in!

 

[BayouQueen]

Just the crushed pineapple to put in carrot cake and tart cherries to make cherry pies.

 

[Moliphino]

I'm not a huge fan of canned fruit. I will toss a cup of fruit cocktail in when I make sangria.

 

[cabanafrau]

Don't really like canned fruits. Have a couple recipes that call for canned pineapple tidbits or mandarins and that's about as far as I'll go.

 

[tvguy]

I buy some as part of my hurricane supplies each year. Mostly mandarin oranges, pineapple, and peaches. Once hurricane season is over, I make peach cobbler and pineapple upside down cake, but usually eat the mandarin oranges as is.

Apparently sales of all canned food soared during the pandemic. A lot of us keep it on hand as an emergency food supply, for you, for hurricanes, for me, for the big earthquake that may never come in my lifetime.