How do you like your grapefruit?

[garddwr]

I grew up eating grapefruit with salt sprinkled on it--I was shocked when I discovered people eat it with sugar! Just for fun, here's a poll regarding grapefruit-eating habits.

[Amira]

I feel rather strongly that grapefruit ought to be eaten plain. I'd never even considered putting anything on it till I married my husband and he told me about the horrible things his family does to grapefruit. ;)

[Aunty Social]

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[Belacqua]

Ideally, it would be cut in half, drizzled with honey, and broiled.

 

Most days, I'm lucky if I manage to halve it in the correct direction.

[dsmith]

I’ve never heard of putting salt on grapefruit. :ack2: (I hate salt!) I never eat grapefruit nowadays. I gave up sugar, and grapefruit was something that I would literally pile sugar on. I think I probably used 6-8 teaspoons for a whole grapefruit. (Also why I rarely drink coffee:tongue_smilie:) I’ll have to get dh to try it with salt. Sounds like something he would like.

[dirty ethel rackham]

I need a little sugar to make grapefruit palatable. So, I like mine cut in half and sprinkle it with sugar - a 1/4 - 1/2 tsp will do. Oh, and it needs to be cold. I can't stand grapefruit at room temperature.

[Butter]

I picked some other way because I like it peeled like an orange, cut in half plain, OR cut in half sprinkled with sugar. Most common I just like to eat it in sections. I have never even heard of anyone sprinkling a grapefruit with salt.

[Irene Lynn]

I don't eat them! :) If I were forced to eat one, it would be drenched in sugar.

[Cinder]

For me, cut in half and sprinkled with sugar. Just a little, probably less than a teaspoon. Dh prefers it cut it half, drizzled with honey. I voted for my preference, but neither of us has eaten grapefruit in many years now. I think we stopped when we found out it could interfere with one of dh's meds. (Can't remember which med it was, though.)

[Jen in PA]

Plain! Although when I was little, my mom would sprinkle it with green sugar when she served it near Christmas. It was very pretty, I just can't bring myself to add sugar to it myself.

[Mama_Rana]

I put a little honey on mine. Sometimes stevia if I really want to avoid the calories, but rarely anymore. Never plain.

Salt? I'm intrigued. I like cantaloupe with salt. My mom always eats tomato slices with salt, but my dad always put sugar on them.

[Princess Peach]

I don't eat them! :) If I were forced to eat one, it would be drenched in sugar.

 

:iagree:

[Tammyla]

I grew up sprinkling it with sugar.

 

I eat them plain now, but not often.

[garddwr]

I put a little honey on mine. Sometimes stevia if I really want to avoid the calories, but rarely anymore. Never plain.

Salt? I'm intrigued. I like cantaloupe with salt. My mom always eats tomato slices with salt, but my dad always put sugar on them.

 

I can't imagine tomato slices with sugar, but then I can't imagine grapefruit with sugar either--just seems wrong, I don't identify either as a sweet food; in fact when I come across a naturally sweet grapefruit I don't like it. Grapefruit plain tastes dull to me, it's way better with salt; I can eat tomato either plain or with salt. Never tried cantaloupe with salt, but my mom liked to sprinkle salt on green apples.

[Baseball mom]

Voted other cause it varies by mood but basically plain.

Cut in half plain or Peeled like an orange

[Mrs Mungo]

Other: I hate grapefruit, YUCK! It's one of the very few things that I cannot bear to eat. But, my kids like it.

[Amethyst]

I love grapefruit. I should eat it more.

 

I grew up with it sprinkled with sugar, but I would never consider adding sugar to any fruit now.

[Carrie12345]

Squeezed and spiked. :D

[myfunnybunch]

Other: Cut in half, drizzled with just a little honey.

 

Yum.

 

Cat

[usetoschool]

Normally, cut in half and sprinkled with white sugar, but also cut in half and sprinkled with brown sugar and broiled. My husband and son both like it with salt. They say it cuts down the bitterness or something. I say it cuts down the edibility :tongue_smilie: (that is a gag smilie)

[Word Nerd]

Cut in half, sprinkled with sugar is the way normal people eat it. ;)

[Enough]

Squeezed and spiked. :D

 

Does this mean what I think it means? :cheers2: If so, care to share a recipe? I LOVELOVELOVE grapefruit and tried to make grapefruit cocktails, but -UGH- they were not good.:ack2:

 

To answer the OP: I only eat it cut in half, plain. (But I eat both halves in one sitting. YUM!)

[Sara in AZ]

I grew up sprinkling it with sugar.

 

I eat them plain now

 

Me, too. I have bags of beautiful, giant, and sweet grapefruits on my counter from the neighbors. Wish some of you could come help us eat them. :001_smile:

[k2bdeutmeyer]

Me, too. I have bags of beautiful, giant, and sweet grapefruits on my counter from the neighbors. Wish some of you could come help us eat them. :001_smile:

 

Send some my way!!! :)

 

I voted halved with sugar.

[MamaSheep]

I grew up eating it with salt too. These days I'm just as likely to peel it like an orange and eat the sections (except I usually pull the membrane off the outside of the sections because it's tougher than an orange). I keep meaning to try it with sugar, but either I forget or I'm just craving that salty grapefruit flavor.

[Renthead Mommy]

Other: I like my grapefruit on someone elses plate!

[Amy in NH]

Other: I hate grapefruit, YUCK!

 

:iagree:

[kamom]

Maybe I should have said other. I voted peeled like an orange but I actually pull off the bitter hard to chew membrane and pile the fruit section in a bowl and then eat it plain without sugar. or with cottage cheese=)

 

My whole family eats them like that. I peel them most of the time.

[Mom-ninja.]

juiced

[garddwr]

I grew up eating it with salt too. These days I'm just as likely to peel it like an orange and eat the sections (except I usually pull the membrane off the outside of the sections because it's tougher than an orange). I keep meaning to try it with sugar, but either I forget or I'm just craving that salty grapefruit flavor.

 

If I try to eat grapefruit with the membrane on it makes me sneeze. Has anyone else experienced this or am I just weird? Dark chocolate and strong licorice (like the salty kind you can get in Europe) make me sneeze too...something about the bitterness maybe???

[HappyCrazyMama]

Cut in half, sprinkled with sugar is the way normal people eat it. ;)

:iagree: I very rarely eat grapefruit, I think it has been years. Salt, really.:001_huh: :ack2:

Now I would never put sugar on a tomato, salt for sure there.:) They are not the same types of food in my mind. DH eats grapefruit plain and I think that is icky too!

[jennsmile]

My dad likes his with maple syrup cut in half.

 

I am a plain girl and will either eat it cut in half or peeled like an orange,removing all the skin and eating just the pulp if I peel like an orange.

[woolybear]

Cut in half, with honey.

[Parrothead]

I like my grapefruit left behind in the produce section of the market. :D

[SJ.]

I like my grapefruit left behind in the produce section of the market. :D

 

:iagree:

[HLDoll]

I just juice one every morning and drink it.

[momtoamiracle]

I like it peeled, in a bowl, with a little salt.

 

 

 

I also like cantaloupe and watermelon with a touch of salt sprinkled. Really brings out the flavor!

[gardening momma]

I grew up eating it cut in half with sugar on top, but now I eat it cut in half plain.

[LaxMom]

Cut in half with sugar, royaled just in a bowl, peeled & sectioned like an orange. I've never considered putting salt on it (or watermelon, though I understand people do that). Maybe I should try. Mmmmmm.

[eternalknot]

I feel rather strongly that grapefruit ought to be eaten plain. I'd never even considered putting anything on it till I married my husband and he told me about the horrible things his family does to grapefruit. ;)

 

:lol: This was me and my husband, except it was rice they were desecrating. It was the one hill I swore I'd die on when it came to our kids LOL. They were going to grow up eating it right!

 

I've never tried grapefruit. Absolutely zero desire, and no opportunity that I can recall (other than buying it myself). Reading through this thread, I think if someone held a gun to my head and forced me to try one ... I'd do the cut in half, smothered in honey option. Honey fixes everything :D!

[mytwomonkeys]

i cut it in wedges with the skin still on. oh, and definitely plain. no need to put a thing on a sweet perfect grapefruit!:)

[Rosie_0801]

Left on the tree. They look nice there.

 

Rosie

[mudboots]

Cut in half & drizzled with honey!

[kewb]

These days I eat it cut in half with nothing added. As a kid and a teenager I liked a little sprinkle of sugar, maybe 1/4 of a teaspoon.

[garddwr]

:lol: This was me and my husband, except it was rice they were desecrating. It was the one hill I swore I'd die on when it came to our kids LOL. They were going to grow up eating it right!

 

I've never tried grapefruit. Absolutely zero desire, and no opportunity that I can recall (other than buying it myself). Reading through this thread, I think if someone held a gun to my head and forced me to try one ... I'd do the cut in half, smothered in honey option. Honey fixes everything :D!

 

You don't know what you're missing! I once ate 10 grapefruit halves for breakfast...with salt.

[Scuff]

red grapefruit, plain.

 

Yellow grapefruit, sprinkled with sugar.

 

Salt? ew!

[AK_Mom4]

I don't like grapefruit. At All.

 

My vote would have been "tossed off a building", but you didn't have an option for that, so I voted Other.

[mamatohaleybug]

Cut in half, icy cold and plain. Yum!!!!

[Teachin'Mine]

I need a little sugar to make grapefruit palatable. So, I like mine cut in half and sprinkle it with sugar - a 1/4 - 1/2 tsp will do. Oh, and it needs to be cold. I can't stand grapefruit at room temperature.

 

 

Same here. Except I don't add sugar for the exceptionally sweet ones.

[danybug]

Oh, we love plain grapefruit cut in half. My kids and I pound grapefruit ;) We bought a few bags of the most sensational Texas Ruby Red ones this year.