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Old 10-10-2009, 06:28 PM   #96
ZenGum
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Originally Posted by footfootfoot View Post

I once met an apple grower who told me the red delicious cross was beautiful, travelled well, and had a reasonable shelf life at room temp, only it taasted like wet cardboard. So they hired a marketing company who came up with the orwellian name "Delicious". It's still going downhill as far as veracity is concerned.
I just wanted to note that this post has an exceptionally high truth:word ratio.

They develop strains that look good in the shop but have the taste and nutrition of, as you say, cardboard; then stick some BS name on them to make people buy them.

I hate that shit.

Gimme a pink lady. (I was thinking of apples, but now that I reconsider...)
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