I like grapes, but I am picky about them. I like about every color, but I do not want them either too sweet, nor too sour. And they have to be huge in size and almost bursting out of the skins. I detest ones that are starting to shrivel up a bit, and they just don't have that juicy crisp taste. I know that grapes are very healthy, and are also said to kill the cancer cells, so I try to always include them in my diet. When they start to shrivel, I put them in the blender and make a grape smoothie, so I don't waste any.
I really like fresh grapes right off of the vine. We had all kinds of fruit trees, and berry vines, and grapes when I was growing up, so picking them off the backyard grape vine was the approved way of eating them. A bowl of fresh blackberries or raspberries and cream was my favorite summertime breakfast .
If I got sick, my mom would bring me grape juice with ice in it, and that is what I had to drink until I got well again. Sometimes she mixed the grape juice with ginger ale, and she called that "Blood Transfusion". ( my mom always had these cool names for things, I think this referred to the dark cranberry color that it turned when mixed with the grape juice.)
