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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I need to find a thread I saw from a food scientist who worked on developing blueberries for market. She noted that the blueberry selected for purchase was always always always the one that looked best (large, plump and juicy) and never ever ever the ones that tasted best.
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My favorite apple variety of all time is the Northern Spy and I'm really mad at how it's almost impossible to buy it if you're outside the Northeast
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LususNaturae0 and
Also the character Senator Claghorn (on whom the cartoon Foghorn Leghorn was based) who was this ultimate stereotype of an asshole Southern politician has this scene in a movie where he sees a display of "Northern Spy" apples and freaks out It's the funniest fucking thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LususNaturae0 and
It's like he's talking and talking and you can see the sign behind him and you KNOW he's going to react to it even though doing so would be incredibly stupid and you're just waiting
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But yes, ironically, Northern Spies are very difficult to ship south, they're delicate and don't last long in the heat As Sen. Claghorn would say serves them right
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