dekedangle_rpfanon | #24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Sadly, I don't think Gaudreau is all that alone in that matter. As someone who used to work in a grocery store, people know about a dozen (being very generous here) produce items that they purchase regularly, but give them a new recipe to try or something like that and they are completely flummoxed.

In general that sounds plausible, I do see new things I don't know in the grocery store every once in a while, but - plums?! Are plums rare in North America?

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I don't think they're that rare but I don't know if I'd recognize them if my parents hadn't bought them for me growing up (mangoes probably go in that group too). I think specifically prunes are probably more notorious.

Oh, trust me. There's a whole lot of people out there who couldn't correctly pick out an orange and would bring you half a dozen similar items from grapefruits to limes instead. Plums and eggplants are both purple and that's probably as much as he knows about either of them.

As a person who has confused oranges and mandarin oranges on more than one occasion, I still think confusing plums and eggplants is one level weirder...

I'm pretty uneducated about produce, but I don't see how anyone who's even seen an eggplant emoji and has a vague idea of what a plum is could confuse the two.

I've seen the eggplant emoji, but I have literally no idea what a plum looks like. It didn't occur to me that that was information I was lacking until now, and I kind of want to keep the mystery alive.

It's a stone fruit. It looks like a purple stone fruit. (Other stone fruit: peaches, nectarines, apricots.)

Damson plums actually do kinda look like little eggplants, now that I think about it, and there are some little eggplants that look kinda like plums with little green caps:

eggplant: http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/eggplant-indian.jpg

plum: http://www.arnusitarim.com/wp-content/uploads/bfi_thumb/4389-4v6pntz8bqd4i34t5kdcc21s1kw.png

I'm sorry I maligned you, Johnny Gaudreau.

Nope. Not seeing it. It's like mistaking actual eggs for white eggplant. Only under the light of the moon and squinting can I understand.

I mean, if you've never seen either of those things before.... they are both fruits and a lot of people don't know what plums actually look like. It's not like someone familiar with them would ever confuse them. An egg is not a fruit, it's not quite the same.

But if you watch the video, the eggplant he mistook for a plum was a variety that is large and thick. (That sounds so dirty.)

That's just so alien to me. But then my reaction to seeing a produce item that I don't know what it is is usually closer to well, let's try one! And then googling what to do with it.

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