A while ago I learned the original Chinese name for a kiwifruit (which is originally from China, and was rebranded as a New Zealand thing thanks to Cold War tensions) is a "monkey peach" This is a 1000x better name and makes me far more interested in eating them
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Between kiwis, litchis and aloe it really feels like east asia got all the real good fruits
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
hot take, apples are amazing actually, we've all just been dulled into insensitivity by shitty industrial apples widely available
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Replying to @perdricof @Nymphomachy
I have found that Sugar Bee apples are a significant improvement over Honeycrisps but cost twice as much as Honeycrisps because as a novel variant of Honeycrisps they are still under propagation rights and a cut goes to the original breeder Yes, IP law affects apples
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
as an upstate new yorker i can say that all orchard-picked apples are ambrosia delivered from the gods of which all supermarket apples are a pale imitation
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
I mean I don't even generally like the taste of apple juice which is more or less the purest distillation of what a decent apple would theoretically taste like
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @perdricof
Well, that obvious depends on what kind of apple The best apple juice isn't sold as juice, it's sold as cider -- apples that all came from the tree and haven't had their appley goodness filtered out for long-term storage Like single-malt scotch
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Clear apple juice you buy from the store is very close to just being sugar water
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