Eat More Fruit

Andy Rooney Shares Some Nutritional Advice

From the time you’re very young someone is always telling us to eat more fruit. Well, I think we would eat more fruit if we knew for sure that it was going to be any good when we bought it. So expensive. We went to a good store in New York called Fairway the other day and looked at their fruit.

Grapefruit – better than they used to be. When I was a kid my mother would cut them in two and sprinkle sugar on them and leave them overnight.

How would you like to have the job of stacking fruit in a fruit store? So, it didn’t fall down.

Lemons – one of the great fruits, so versatile. So many things you can do with them. Of course you can’t eat them.

Mango, they’re good but the pit is strange shape and very hard to get at, you need a sharp knife and it takes about a half hour to get at what you want to eat.

Not too familiar with a papaya. I would buy one, but I don’t know whether I would know what to do with it, whether to eat it for breakfast or dessert.

I suppose over the years I’ve wasted more money on melons then anything else I’d ever bought. I’ve bought a thousand honeydew melons but only three of them were ripe over the years.

I don’t want to buy six or eight bananas, you get them in a package. I just want one or two bananas. Read more