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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(Professional mango critics consider the Tommy Atkins to be particularly flavorless and fibrous for a mango and therefore highly undesirable But this is exactly why it survives long-distance transport and long-term storage better than any other mango variety)
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(It's the mango you have to make do with if you live in cold, mango-unfriendly climates, basically And wealthy cool people are the ones who don't have to settle for it and can afford real mangoes imported at greater expense Which is probably very bad for global warming but w/e)
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cf. the contemporary supermarket tomato, which is optimized for a) long-term cold storage and b) being red
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yeah there's a reason canned tomatoes taste way better, because they can be preserved after being vine ripened instead of having to turn red in shipping
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There were long lines in NYC because some company was importing mangoes from the Caribbean in select locations.
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