Trader Joe’s new passion fruit sorbet is EVERYTHING
I have been obsessed with passion fruit since my family and I vacationed in the Dominican Republic when I was 19, where we all tried it for the first time. They had endless passion fruit at the buffet at the resort we stayed at, I probably ate at least 50 whole passion fruit during our stay there.
If you haven’t tried passion fruit, it’s basically fruit caviar, you cut it open and eat the little seeds covered in delicious orange slime with a spoon. It’s very tart, so you’ll generally wanna sprinkle a little sugar on top. It has the most aromatic, archetypal tropical flavor you can imagine.
On that trip my parents became enamored with it as well; after we got back from the trip they began growing passion fruit in our backyard. The kind we had in the DR were the big yellow ones; we grow smaller ones with a purple exterior. They’re just as delicious as the first ones we tried, of course.
2-3 weeks ago Trader Joe’s began selling passion fruit sorbet, and OMG, it is perfection. A lot of passion fruit juices and products can be really overly sweetened, but the sorbet is really nice and tart. Has an amazing, pungent, passion-fruity flavor. It tastes like you might as well be eating frozen passion fruit purée without the seeds and just enough sugar.
@Zeuro Well, I just saw your response and can't figure out what your problem really is. Yes, I get all your condescension that props up your lagging self-esteem. I don't fault you for that; I would just like to see you become self-aware about it. I don't know why I am the one getting yelled at just because I called you out for your inattention to details. Perhaps you don't understand how an over-use of sugar is, in fact, toxic. Maybe you don't understand the dynamics of serving size and portion control. I would be happy to educate you on these matters if you ever could get over your anger issues, desire to yell and berate me, and take positions that are disappointing for someone who claims to be a fully functioning adult.
Look, it's more than obvious that you don't understand the basics of a public online discussion forum. That's what this is and people come here to add their opinions, their insights, and their life-earned wisdom. That's how this works. This isn't intended to be your private club, your own little world of closeminded statements of self-praise, or a place to put people down instead of raising them up.
Keep eating sugar-loaded foods and falling on the sword of "it's good for you" and see how far that gets you. At least, I was trying to prevent you from your own bad impulses. I acknowledge that never makes anyone popular, but I'm all about telling people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. Maybe one day when you (finally) grow up you will recognize that.
This comment thread is a textbook example of how quickly a minor nutritional question can spiral into a full-blown flame war, complete with:
– Debates about semantics ("empty calories") – Accusations of lacking credentials – Age-based condescension from both sides – A descent from public health into personal insults – A full dramatic arc including martyrdom, outrage, superiority, insecurity, and unsolicited life advice
At its core, it all began with a simple question about sorbet.
Interpretation:
This is less about sugar and more about ego. The two main participants — MarkPaul and Zeuro — are locked in a struggle not over science, but over validation. One feels compelled to instruct, the other to defend autonomy and expose hypocrisy. Neither is particularly interested in dialogue. It's performance. It's status play. It’s the internet.
Takeaway:
Give people anything — from frozen dessert to foreign policy — and if you scratch just below the surface, you’ll find all the timeless themes: pride, wounded identity, generational friction, fragile authority, defiance, and the desperate need to be seen as “right.”
And in the middle of it all, sorbet just sits there. Cold. Sweet. Unbothered.
