I have to disagree vehemently, how could you 
Strawberries and apples were the only 2 fruity things I ate as a child. They are the opposite of cherries and bananas!
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Iāve never tried goat yoghurt.
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I am pretty sure an angry clownās frown is the opposite of a bananas. And the opposite of the cherry is a perfect cube of coal.
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Personally I prefer the quiet dignified sweetness of a raspberry rather than in-your-face arenāt I amazing eat me you know you want to strawberry. Although I have sometimes had strawberries when I was in a difficult place.
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Not a fan of raspberries either. They are slightly better than strawberries, but probably only because most everything is better than strawberries.
I have always had these opinions in regards to the berries in question. Then in my early twenties I started having some medical concerns that eventually led to a diagnosis of a chronic, genetic illness of the digestive system. One of the symptoms is that my body has a much more difficult time than normal processing foods with lots of seeds and they have the potential to make me very ill. Theory is my body knew that all along and Iāve never liked the taste of berries with their stupid little seeds because my body was basically rejecting them as harmful.
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I know, but I was using berries in the everyday language sense not the technical botanist sense.
Same kind of thing as knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in your fruit salad. Philosophy is wondering if salsa / pico de gallo could be a tomato-based fruit salad. 
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David Mitchell is quite amusing when he wants about what are fruits/berries/nuts on The Unbelievable Truth (a Radio 4 comedy panel show)
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Oh, donāt get me started on the false dichotomy of fruits and vegetables. Tomatoes (and cucumbers) are both!
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I donāt get the cherry debate. Theyāre great! I thought it was a universally appealing fruit!
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blackberry > raspberry > strawberry for me.
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I love cherries and pineapple, will only eat them fresh/raw, and will almost always make myself ill from gorging on them. Itās a problem.
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I like raspberries in things or the flavour of raspberries, but I canāt stand eating them as fruits. The texture is horrible.
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Iām not really in favour of fruit. I appreciate it but I donāt trust it. Iāve never been disappointed by a Pringle.
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Iām often disappointed by the third Pringle.
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I am usually disappointed in myself when eating pringles.
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I read a study a few years ago: when researchers dyed each fifth pringle red, people would eat fewer, presumably because theyād be getting a periodic reminder of how many theyād already eaten that session.
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You know what, it was only till I moved to the UK in the early 2000s that I found somebody that didnāt like olives. I think it can be surprising that you have acquired tastes that can be even a cultural thing. Growing up in Spain everybody loved olives (at least in my circle of people through school, friends and University) and in the UK I met loads of people that hated them.
Investigating a little bit, turns out that after the war, Spain was so poor (no WWII involvement, so no Marshall Plan) that through most of Spain, olives were like a treat for kids in the late 1940s and through the 50s (we had loads) and even though in the Canaries we had a lot of banana and tomato, they were not affordable because it was all being exported to the UK and Northern Europe (Canary Wharf in London, for example).
Back to cherries and banana, I like both, but I am not a massive fruit eater. I like berries in general, but there three fruits that even I can love the juice, their texture puts me off: mango, pear and strawberries. I cannot have the raw fruit.
And to further the debate for pizza toppings, I can sort of tolerate pineapple on pizza (but would never order it); what about this one, that I have seen here in NZ for the first time: Kiwi as a pizza topping. Yuck!
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Just before Iād moved over to wales I did a scout operation to find a house. There was a local takeaway called ābanana pizzaā. It wasnāt one of those dessert pizzas but a regular pizza with bananas. I quite liked it back then.
Actually I swing between having loaded pizzas and just āmargaritaā (cheese and tomato only) - it usually goes from being a in a cheese and tomato phase and then adding one or two extras at a time until Iām like dissapointed with the result and then reset back down to cheese and tomato.
I also try any novelty flavour if they have it. Another place here did walnut/pear/blue cheese. Which is fun.
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Coming into the debate late, but I love cherries and my partner dislikes (not hates, but doesnāt like) them.
A good cherry pie is the greatest of all pies. A bad cherry pie is the 2nd worst of all pies (pumpkin pie without a mountain of whipped cream is worse). Whereas a great apple pie is, like, top 5 pies, but a really bad apple pie is likeā¦ top 10 pies.
Maybe 11. Too much cinnamon. Anyway.
Sticking with fruit pies and assuming blue-ribbon quality (not āBest Ever,ā but a really good homemade or restaurant caliber pie), I think my ranking is approximately:
Cherry ā Blueberry ā Peach (with Crumble topping) ā Strawberry-Rhubarb ā Apple with Ice Cream ā Lemon Meringue ā Lime ā Peach (with normal topping) ā Raspberry ā Mixed Berry ā Around here Iāll stop ordering fruit pies and start considering worthy non-fruit alternatives (Chocolate Peanut Butter pie, Maple Pie, Sugar Pie, Butter Pecan, Coconut Cream if itās really good Coconut Creamā¦).
I have the genetic thing where cilantro tastes like soap and I hate licorice/anise, but otherwise there are few foods I wonāt try. I usually hate blue cheese (it tastes exactly how I imagine belly button lint tastes), but I had it once in Las Vegas in a salad with shrimp and my gods I would stab a stranger to have it again (the restaurant, Rosemarieās, didnāt survive the pandemicā¦ not that Iāve ever been back to Las Vegas).
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