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Crop scientist, ex-farmworker, industrial safety pro. She/her.

Fayetteville, NC
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    1. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

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      Red Delicious was A+ in its original incarnation. Then folks kept grafting from bud sports (=sometimes a tree throws a branch that's a little different, it's normal) w darker & darker fruit. Selected for color instead of quality. 100+ yrs later we now have purple foamballs. https://twitter.com/kaichoyce/status/1055944025121771520 …

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    2. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

      (2/) Weirdly this makes some evolutionary sense. When confronted w a variety of otherwise identical fruit (say, bins of apples at the store), humans go for the darkest red ones. In nature, that's how you eat the ripe ones & leave bb fruit to mature.

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    3. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

      (3/) So. All other things being equal, if you have multiple apple varieties at the store, the darkest red ones tend to sell the fastest. It's not hard to see how that wound up being the priority for deciding which Red Delicious variants to graft.

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    4. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

      (4/) Tl;dr a lot of the stuff that the food movement blames on "bad agriculture" or w/e is ... really just the result of a lot of micro-scale human decisions that made sense on their own. Then they snowball into something weird.

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    5. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

      (5/) Also when I worked in fruit breeding the weirdest thing would happen. Us in the breeding program would wind up with our favorite cultivars. We liked the ones with a lot of flavor: strong, balanced acidity & sweetness with a lot of aroma.

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    6. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

      (6/) There was this one blueberry that had this amazing rich flavor. Thick, jammy with a little bit of blackberry to it. mmmmmm

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      Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

      (7/) But when we actually did the flavor testing? Let civilians eat our new berry crosses? They LOOOVED the most watery, insipid, shitty berries. Kept giving them top marks, and our favorite big-flavor berries always wound up in the middle.

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        2. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

          (8/) IIRC the top-testing blueberry from that program during my time there was Meadowlark. Bless its heart, it's a great bush- but the fruit is a bland-ass water bean. Its max flavor level is a faint whiff of violets. BUT PEOPLE LOVED IT. WHAT. HOW

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        3. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

          (9/) Anyway, it seems like every other thinkpiece about ~food these days~ has obligatory remarks on how The Scientists Are Breeding Crops For Durability Instead of Flavor. lmao fuck that, we keep TRYING to breed for flavor & getting sabotaged by y'all on the taste panels

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        4. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

          (10/) Again, there's some really complex human systems stuff going on in our produce markets. Like asking why so many ppl seem to prefer bland fruit. We'd really be able to help ourselves out if we actually ... looked at that?

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        5. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

          (11/) But it wraps the story up in a neat little bow to blame ~science~ so sure let's do that instead. -cut to scientists hissing Gollum-style over the 3 good berry plants from their field trials that never made it to market because The People Have Spoken- 🤣

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        6. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

          (12/) Hrmmm replies have turned into a "let's hate on the plebes who don't appreciate fruit like ~we~ do" sesh. The entire point of this thread was, there's a HUGE spectrum of flavors out there most of us don't ever encounter & we don't know what we don't know.

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        7. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 26 Oct 2018

          (13/) Statistically speaking, MOST OF US in the ol' u s of a are secretly one of those majority of people who like shitty bland fruit, AND WE'LL NEVER KNOW IT. Happy Halloween!

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        8. Dr Sarah Taber‏ @SarahTaber_bww 27 Oct 2018

          If you like this thread, check out the Farm to Taber podcast! Season 2 is coming soon https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/farm-to-taber/id1418015843?mt=2 … Also Patreon. Because podcasting is my winter job lmao:https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5610560 

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        2. a catherine scorned‏ @georgetakesajob 26 Oct 2018
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          It's selecting for the ones that everybody finds sort of nice. And assuming not pissing anyone off is the same thing as people really liking it.

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        2. Doc Squawk‏ @bogglesnatch 27 Oct 2018
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          Most of those aren't "fruitlike" exactly, in many cases they're literally the chemical that gives natural fruit its dominant flavor. They're just stripped of context and subtlety.

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