I don't think that's quite it. Originally they were supposed to actually be really good and really pretty - they only turned to shit as they got bred for other considerations. They got way worse than people remembered.
So bad that the state of Texas standardized test had a passage about a Chinese person in China who saw how good they look but it was way too expensive to get one, but when they finally did, it tasted horrible…
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I don't think that's quite it. Originally they were supposed to actually be really good and really pretty - they only turned to shit as they got bred for other considerations. They got way worse than people remembered.
So bad that the state of Texas standardized test had a passage about a Chinese person in China who saw how good they look but it was way too expensive to get one, but when they finally did, it tasted horrible…
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Shelf stable in a way where they won't take that much worse than when they're fresh off the tree.
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Partially hydrogenated soybean oil slowly sickened and prematurely killed generations of people because it was shelf stable, too.
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