I'm like this with vegetables, sometimes, but rarely with fruit. Fruit's too easy to eat.
I'm glad you said it first! I was reading this thread and thinking I was way different from the OP.
I'm more of a fruit fanatic...a fruitanatic I guess.
This reminds me of an interview with a fruitarian I saw once on Sanjay Gupta's show on CNN when I used to have cable (pre-MMM blog reading days, of course). I'd never heard of a fruitarian before. Check out the interview with the fruitarian athlete:
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/cnns-sanjay-gupta-interviews-fruitarian-athlete-michael-arnstein-video/If I had to pick between the two, I'd go fruitarian over vegetarian any day (assuming vegetarian in this case was an only-veggie diet).
The only reason I agree with OP is that I am such a fruitanatic, that I usually buy too much fruit and don't realize it has a limited shelf life and I may not get to all of it in time (typing as I am eating some yummy watermelon).
EDIT: Also reminded of a story from a trip to Australia with some friends. I had read in a book that there was a farm nearby that had a fruit that tasted like chocolate. So I made my friends drive out of the way just to go try out this fruit. They were perplexed and resisting a little as they didn't want to "waste time" going there. Well, sure enough, after trying out the fruit they thanked me for the little diversion. How could you NOT try the local fruits in a place you are visiting - is what I say.