Battle of the Fruits Round 1: Pears over Peaches

[IRON CHEF]

This one should be interesting...

Pears


VS

Peaches

[mtryanks12]

Both are great, but I'm going for pears because I'd rather just cut up one of them and eat it than I would for a peach.

[deluxe_247]

gotta go with pears...peach fuzz really irrates me...and makes me itch when it gets on my skin. a nice ripe pear is one of the greatest fruits.

pears ranked in this order:

Taylors Gold
Bosc
Bartlett
Comice
D'anjou

[PackerAttack84]

Pears, jump out to an early 4-0 start. I hope they continue, 'cause they are way better then peaches. Except there is a Peach Bowl, but it should be the Pear Bowl.

[deluxe_247]

wow i just thought about how much i love peach cobbler

[IRON CHEF]

These fruits are very even for me, pears own peaches when it comes to eating them raw, but juicy canned peaches are delicious.

[Canacuna]

Both of these fruits should have gotten an easy first round slot - both of these fruits are borderline power-houses, y0!

[Shaffe]

chef hit it on the head. raw, pears are slightly better. but that's just one aspect of the fruit. beyond that, a pear can't do much other than just can it. peaches can be used to make tons of different things and, imo, taste better too.

[Mercer Boy]

Before I start (and this has nothing to do with fruit), I must say that I really hate IE...I try to open a new window in order to look something up, and it doesn't do it. Then I go to another site to search for the info, and then I try to go back to my reply in here. Everything I wrote is gone. My sister is going to die for taking the laptop computer back in her room when she felt sick. Because of that, I have to use the PC which for some reason can't handle running Firefox. Had I been using the laptop, I would have already had another existing browser tab open and not lost my post. End of rant.

Anyhow, I voted for pears because in order to eat them you don't need to drown them in heavy, sugar filled, fattening syrup. They still go in the fruit cocktail, but I think I could eat a pear on its own. The peach fuzz scares me.

Bosc is one of those annoying fruits that they throw in crossword puzzles. Every time I see a pattern like b*sc I say to myself, "I must have screwed up some other word!" Other annoying crossword fruits include the "ugli" and the "sloe." I had never heard of either of those things before I started doing puzzles, but now that I know them, it isn't so bad.

[Dr. Duran Duran]

Well, pears are among my favorite foods to snack on. Pears it is!