I’m not sure if you’ve written a brilliant response with great analogies — or misunderstood the double slit experiment.

The analogies of both the fruit and the thermometer are a little flawed, as they imply incremental change. IMO, the amazing part is the binary outcome of the double slit experiment; you don’t make your fruit a little squishier, or your water a touch colder through measurement — more like, if you measure your fruit it turns into juice, and if you measure your water it turns to wine!

(With the double slit experiment, you allow light to act as both a wave and a particle. However if you try and measure which slit it is coming from, it no longer acts as a wave at all.)