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Bottoms up?! This time it's a fruit and it's not my art or fault

Pitstop @pitstop (15551) • Australia 10 May 25

I tried making a heart on my coffee and a good friend (hopefully!) commented that it looked like a bottom. She wasn't wrong. After that, I've been seeing bottoms in everything around. Look at this pear - it was just innocently...

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Pears

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169477) • United States 28 Sep 24

Last weekend my brother and sister-in-law shared pears with me. One of their friends has a very productive tree. SIL has not felt like cooking since her mom passed away in July, so the pears are not getting used up. I used about...

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What I did at art class on Thursday.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 12 Jul 24

I'm only writing about this now because I haven't really had time to do it before. On Thursday I went to art class again. My taxi was late! He came at almost 1:35pm and I was thinking of phoning them up to see where he was! But...

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These Asian pears are horrible

Anindita Sengupta @aninditasen (18198) • Raurkela, India 14 Aug 22

I had ordered some imported pears on jiomart and they delivered these Asian pears which are hard and sour. I had never seen such pears with a brown skin. They are mostly found in Japan, China and Taiwan. Making mixed fruit juice...

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Do You Know Any Fruit Hack?

Thelma @thelme55 (79324) • Germany 19 Mar 22

Last Thursday, the lady whom I work for was craving for a ripe pear but her pears were still hard for her to bite. I told her to wait for the next day as I would find a way online how to ripen them fast. Yesterday, Friday, the...

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Don't the pears look tempting?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 4 Jan 21

We’ve had a lovely start to the New Year with five nights spent with five friends in a lovely house at Madora Bay in Western Australia. Although we had internet, I didn’t get much chance to interact but I’m home for a few days...

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Can't Wait To Get More Pears

Marlina @marlina (154103) • Canada 8 Oct 18

A few weeks ago, my neighbor gave me a huge bag of his freshly picked pears from his own backyard. I ended up eating some fresh and made some pear sauce with the balance. It was so delicious that I will make more this week, but...

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Prickly Pears, the Fruit that Sticks

Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 20 Sep 18

When I was a kid, we lived in a place that gave us prickly pears. The cactus is called nopal and it has oval shaped leaves or pads that are full of stickers that hurt. Its ripe fruit is red like the ones in the photo. How did we...

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What's your favorite fast food?

Hope @1hopefulman (45111) • Canada 30 Oct 17

It was time to have some lunch as I was hungry. I saw that I had five ripe pears all the way from the USA. I washed then and it took a minute. I ate them and it took about 15 minutes. I washed the knife and plate and it took less...

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Look at These Sweet Pears

Albena Ivanova @WriterAI (5373) • Bulgaria 22 Sep 17

Look at These Sweet Pears Today I bought these sweet pears. They are marvelous, aren’t they? I am happy to have this Nature gift at home and on the table. I succeeded to eat already three of them. Also they are nice autumn...

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36 lbs of pears, and I've barely made a dent

Kelli M @spiderdust (14756) • San Jose, California 20 Sep 17

I bought a box of green Bartlet pears on sale last week and have been waiting for them to ripen so I can preserve them. Pears ripen off of the tree, which is why you frequently see hard and green pears at the grocery store. I was...

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Need recipe for home made apple sauce,pear to

goingeagle3 @eagletrek2 (5514) • Kingston, New York 4 Dec 16

All the Apple sauce in the stores have Suger in it I do not think Apple sauce should have Suger in it a little bit of cinnamon. What do you think I'm trying to change my diet to lose weight And we're I live there plenty of Apple...

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Two Pears

Joanie @Freelanzer (10782) • Canada 4 Sep 16

The pear tree I planted last Spring has produced two pears. What a precious sight the first time I saw them. I cuddled and protected them from the elements and the birds and they have survived. They are not big pears but they...

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Do You Shop at Sprouts

Ruby Hawk @RubyHawk (99367) • Atlanta, Georgia 7 Aug 16

Sprouts is a huge grocery store near us. They are quiet expensive and I don't shop there for anything other than special sales. They usually have a few fruits or veggies on sale every week and I buy those. This week they had...

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These are what we left

youless @youless (114117) • Guangzhou, China 9 Apr 16

My husband, my son and I had pears. And I found it funny what we left after eating the pears

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An abundance of pears!

Fleur @Fleura (35031) • United Kingdom 30 Oct 15

At the bottom of our garden we have a mini orchard which includes a pear tree. The pear blossom is beautiful in spring but the crop of pears can be quite variable; last year we didn’t get all that many. This year though conditions...

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Do You Have Fruit Trees In Your Backyard?

Marlina @marlina (154103) • Canada 2 Oct 15

Just wondering if you have any fruit trees in your own backyard? Is the season over where you live? Our neighbors to the south have quite a few fruit trees and give us some of them sometimes. It is very much appreciated,...

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The Perfect Pear, Health Benefits.

Micky B @mick8668 (3) 14 Mar 14

The Perfect Pear I bring you…the perfect pear! Apples and Pears, cockney slang for stairs and two great English fruits. Although apples are common in many people’s diet, the pear is often forgotten, with most of us consuming...

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Growing Your Own

belindayhughes @belindayhughes (1096) • United States 4 Jan 13

I'm trying to reduce food costs and ingest fewer chemicals by organically growing my own fruits. So far, we've bought fig, lemon and pear trees, a blueberry bush, a blackberry vine and two or three strawberry plants. In addition,...

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Had a Pear(Bartlett) for the first time in a long time

stealthy @stealthy (8181) • United States 27 Aug 12

I had forgotten how good they are. This one was great and I have a couple of more since I bought three because they were on sale. So I got curious about how healthy they are and looked it up. Here is what I found: Pears provide...

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