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garrick92
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No, no penis-shaped carrots here, thank you very much.
I was inspired to start this thread by a sudden memory -- seeing a "starfruit" for the first time, in (I think) 1989. It had occurred to me at the time that this weird-looking thing had never ever been seen before -- like its contemporary 'newbies', the horned melon, the inside-out orange and the invisible apple -- OK, now I'm making them up, but there were a whole bunch of weird-ass fruit suddenly appeared on sale at about the same time, whereas anyone used to fruit before this time would have considered lychees and pomegranates to be the height of exotica.
Several questions: (1) -- Has anyone any recollection of seeing the starfruit (for example) prior to about 1989 (picture in books, even)? (2) Is there any grounding in my horrid suspicion that they were an early 'future-shock' test for the current wave of genetically modified crops ("Hehe, heh, if they eat this, they'll eat anything!")? (3) What other unearthly things startled the bejasus out of you when they first appeared, but are now as commonplace as "Coronation Street"?
PS -- If anyone tries to tell me that they own a large starfruit that contains a perfect and miniature (but growing) replica of themselves, then I shall SCREAM.
I was inspired to start this thread by a sudden memory -- seeing a "starfruit" for the first time, in (I think) 1989. It had occurred to me at the time that this weird-looking thing had never ever been seen before -- like its contemporary 'newbies', the horned melon, the inside-out orange and the invisible apple -- OK, now I'm making them up, but there were a whole bunch of weird-ass fruit suddenly appeared on sale at about the same time, whereas anyone used to fruit before this time would have considered lychees and pomegranates to be the height of exotica.
Several questions: (1) -- Has anyone any recollection of seeing the starfruit (for example) prior to about 1989 (picture in books, even)? (2) Is there any grounding in my horrid suspicion that they were an early 'future-shock' test for the current wave of genetically modified crops ("Hehe, heh, if they eat this, they'll eat anything!")? (3) What other unearthly things startled the bejasus out of you when they first appeared, but are now as commonplace as "Coronation Street"?
PS -- If anyone tries to tell me that they own a large starfruit that contains a perfect and miniature (but growing) replica of themselves, then I shall SCREAM.