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| − | What was the fruit like? Unfortunately, no one can describe | + | What was the fruit like? Unfortunately, no one can describe a taste. All I can say is that, compared with those fruits, the freshest grapefruit you've ever eaten was dull, and the juiciest orange was dry, and the most melting pear was hard and woody, and the sweetest wild strawberry was sour. And there were no seeds or stones, and no wasps. If you had once eaten that fruit, all the nicest things in this world would taste like medicines after it. But I can't describe it. You can't find out what it is like unless you can get to that country and taste it for yourself. |
| − | a taste. All I can say is that, compared with those fruits, | ||
| − | the freshest grapefruit you've ever eaten was dull, and the | ||
| − | juiciest orange was dry, and the most melting pear was hard | ||
| − | and woody, and the sweetest wild strawberry was sour. And | ||
| − | there were no seeds or stones, and no wasps. If you had once | ||
| − | eaten that fruit, all the nicest things in this world would | ||
| − | taste like medicines after it. But I can't describe it. You | ||
| − | can't find out what it is like unless you can get to that | ||
| − | country and taste it for yourself. | ||
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Revision as of 09:35, 7 May 2022
An orange is a kind of comestible. It is considered vegan food.
Encyclopaedia entry
Interestingly, the orange shares the same entry as the pear, likely because it mentions both:
What was the fruit like? Unfortunately, no one can describe a taste. All I can say is that, compared with those fruits, the freshest grapefruit you've ever eaten was dull, and the juiciest orange was dry, and the most melting pear was hard and woody, and the sweetest wild strawberry was sour. And there were no seeds or stones, and no wasps. If you had once eaten that fruit, all the nicest things in this world would taste like medicines after it. But I can't describe it. You can't find out what it is like unless you can get to that country and taste it for yourself.
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