If I were a betting man, I'd wager most of you know about the board game "Hi, Ho! Cherry-O." It's a simple game, originally released in 1965, where a spinner tells players how many cherries they gain …
Muscat Love
FruitFriends, most of you now understand the way popular culture and random-access memory connects us to fruit. This week's newsletter started out no differently when I heard there would be delicious …
Fruit On First
This March in History: March 1938. Abbott and Costello debuted their famous "Who's On First" baseball routine for a national radio audience 71 years ago this month, and their classic comedic gem …
Federal Fruit and Presidential Palates
Whether corner, cubicle, home, or Oval, The FruitGuys believes all offices are created equal in their right to have fresh fruit and nutritious fare available in the workplace. In honor of Presidents' …
Here’s Jeff…
Fruit Friends—I wanted to formally introduce Jeff Koelemay, who has been filling in for me. In the spirit of the FruitGuys family, Jeff is not only a longtime employee who has done everything from …
The Fonz and the Grapes (Aesop’s “Happy Days”)
By Chris Mittelstaedt Early November 1975. Richie, Chachi, and Ralph Malph are drinking milkshakes at Arnold's Drive-In Restaurant, swapping wholesome fantasy stories about catsuit-clad rock star …
How to Measure Taste
"Dad," my seven-year-old daughter, whispers. "Yes," I grunt. She's standing next to my bed at 6 am on Saturday morning. "Do you have a ruler?" I open one eye. "Huh?" I croak. "A ruler," she says. …
Play it again Passion
In a past post, I wrote about Passion Fruit. A lot of you had questions about this tasty, interesting and fun fruit. I wanted to play this newsletter one more time for those of you who missed it just …
Exchanging Summer for “Sha-na-na-na-na” Fall
The first time I traveled out of the United States, I remember going into a bank with my parents to change money. This was sometime in the 80s when you still had to go to a bank or currency exchange …
In Which Bartlett Pear Meets a Figalump
As you may have learned last week, Bartlett Pear, known to his friends as Many-of-Two, or Two for short, was a wondrous kind of fruit, that is, A Pear Who Wondered. One end-of-summer-day that we'll …
Silly Old Pear
Bartlett Pear, known to his friends as Many-of-Two, or Two for short, was hanging on a tree at Jelich Ranch in Portola Valley, California, singing proudly to himself. He had invented this little song …
Flames that quench
Red Flames may not be what people want to hear about in a month of record wildfires, but these are the delicious thirst-quenching kind. Red Flame Grapes are the first eating grapes of the season to …
Lava lamp of fruit
So it's a hot summer day at work, and you're looking through The FruitGuys fruit crate thinking about what would be the most refreshing piece you could pick when the light glances just right off the …
A History of Apricots in the USA
My wife recently finished writing a book with two other authors on California legal history. In it, she wrote of the early industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's hard to imagine amongst the …
Peach Fuzz
1992: Twenty-two years old, and I'm an East Coast transplant living the San Francisco writer's dream. I've been taking a fiction workshop out of a woman's home in Noe Valley. It starts when she has …
Duho! The Donut Peach
Don't be afraid - this is not Homer Simpson's donut. This donut is not fried or powdered or sugared. It's not meant to be dunked or hoarded or stuffed into some flour-covered, winking baker's …
The Days of Our Earth
"Like Fruit in the FruitGuys crate, we see the changing of the seasons, because these are the days of our earth!" Organ music dramatically plays as we fade in on peaches and a handful of apricots in a …
Spokes and Snaps
We're big supporters of physical activity here at The FruitGuys. Dan challenged the office to competitive commuting during Bike to Work week 2008: Bridget is racking up 15 to 30 miles a day, Scott's …
The other stuff we do
The college application process was not an easy one for me. I didn't know where I wanted to go to school, and I certainly didn't know how to encapsulate my essence in an essay. I finally settled on …
Hues, Blues and Pears in Haikus
It's transition time: the time of year when all of a sudden you look up and notice that the light is waking you up before your alarm clock and evening is stretching longer with warm and pleasant hues. …
