- what's up with that? Don't you just hate it? I mean, who got the "brilliant" idea to label fruit individually? Ok I don't mind so much if you have to peel it first, because the fruit is not in contact with the edible parts. But apples? Who thought "Gosh - I better put stickers on these GRANNY SMITH apples, in case some of them elopes to the box with COX ORANGE". Or even worse as it has been my case at work lately : the plums. Seriously. Plums. But why? WHY? It was so bad on one occasion that the sticker actually tore of part of the skin, upon removal. Is it not bad enough that you have to scrub your fruit to get rid of other peoples germs first? Apparently not. You ALSO have to steam the stickers first, and remove the remaining glue with alcohol, to ensure a "safe" and healthy snack.
- and then you bite down, split it, and find out that someone lives inside the plum. What a waste of time...
The whole shebang is just ludicrous. An apple is NOT an egg. I can understand the need to stamp eggs individually - that in case of illness you can trace the chicken and have it removed before it infects the others. But you're not gonna trace down a specific tree, and that's clearly not what the labels on fruit is for anyways. An apple is just empty advertising space, and empty advertising space makes baby jesus cry... So there.
Yeah, but it's fun to stick them on people when they're not looking. Maybe you should make that your new work hobby - how many stickers can you surreptitiously stick on your colleague without them noticing? Or, in a less mean-spirited spirit, how many fruit stickers can you stick on yourself before they start calling you Mr Loopy McFruitcake? Although obviously that would depend heavily on sticker placement.
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked at Runestone, I used to stick them on Sammy's screen (the frame of it anyways). He ended up with quite an impressive collection.
ReplyDeleteMy new "co-worker neighbour" is hysterical about it though. A sticker stays for approximately 0.134 seconds before he starts waving his arms about and removes it.
Well he sounds like the perfect target then.
ReplyDelete"yr freak grow up nd act yr age nt yr shoesize!!"
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, because your shoesize is higher than your age :) unless you have small feet... or you're older than you claim? Hmm, they plot thickens.
gah, wrong topic! I fail
ReplyDeletelol - but yes, the shoesize thing is rather funny... and yes, you fail ;)
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be forgetting the fact that a lot of people are morons. They label the fruit so that check out people know what type of apple you're buying and don't charge you for ones that cost half the price.
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed they don't have stickers in fruit shops? Or do they there?
In most supermarkets here, the apples are the same price, regardless of sort. There's usually a "buy 10 pieces of fruit for 25,- dkkr" or so. And that includes 4-5 different apple sorts, oranges, kiwis, bananas and other seasonal fruits like peaches and plums a.o. So it wouldn't really matter, as the unit price is the same, hence no real reason for the labelling, other than to annoy the customers (and it works). They even tick in just as fruit on the register in some supermarkets.
ReplyDelete"Special" sorts are usually bagged individually - like you can get 6 Pink Lady apples that are not in the 10 for 25 offer, but they are boxed and wrapped seperately in a neat little 6-pack.
From what I remember from the old place I lived in Gellerup where I used to shop a lot at the big veggie and fruit market, it was the same deal with the stickers.
I do believe that the fruit is labelled by either the exporter or the importer, long before they hit the stores.