They come pre-sliced now, who knows what they looked like when we started messing with them. Probably mostly rind, with a ring of seeds inside, each surrounded by a bit of excessively bitter fruit, like the citron.
Then we selected the juiciest, largest, sweetest, and easiest to eat, and grafted them onto each other, over millennia, until we got to something that’s actually edible and seems to come pre-sliced.
Just look at teosinte to see what maize started like, for instance, or how many “different” vegetables we made out of brassica.
Whatever fruit Eve is supposed to have eaten way back when must have been some bitter nut, or a poisonous berry, or a tuber barely distinguishable from a root, or Adam’s gay brother Bob, or possibly a fig (wasps made that particular abomination, not us); anything else we didn’t make until much later.
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Fascinating, but it doesn’t really explain why mandarins come pre-sliced, since they’re at the top of that chart.
Although being easy to eat seems like an evolutionary advantage for fruit even if humans aren’t doing it.
They come pre-sliced now, who knows what they looked like when we started messing with them. Probably mostly rind, with a ring of seeds inside, each surrounded by a bit of excessively bitter fruit, like the citron.
Then we selected the juiciest, largest, sweetest, and easiest to eat, and grafted them onto each other, over millennia, until we got to something that’s actually edible and seems to come pre-sliced.
Just look at teosinte to see what maize started like, for instance, or how many “different” vegetables we made out of brassica.
Whatever fruit Eve is supposed to have eaten way back when must have been some bitter nut, or a poisonous berry, or a tuber barely distinguishable from a root, or Adam’s gay brother Bob, or possibly a fig (wasps made that particular abomination, not us); anything else we didn’t make until much later.
Okay, thanks, makes sense.