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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Also, cherries. There are soooooooo many varieties of cherries, and we get... two of them? in American supermarkets.
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And there's a rant that in the mango-producing countries of the world (like our neighbor to the south, Mexico) everyone looks down on the Tommy Atkins, the one mango variety we Americans see all over the supermarket (The big teardrop-shaped green-and-red one)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LususNaturae0 and
Tommy Atkins, the person, repeatedly submitted his eponymous mango variety for judging to the Florida Mango Forum only to have it rejected because they thought it was too low-quality to consider But his faith in his bad mango was ultimately rewarded with great commercial success
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LususNaturae0 and
(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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