Submitted by MitchTobol on

When a grape is really not a grape?

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I had to dig deep this week...finding a unique and funny story from around the world. This one I just shook my head.

 

Asda, one of the UKs largest supermarket chains (and is part of the Walmart group), is selling green grapes that it says taste like 'candy floss'. The supermarket has been experimenting in recent years with varieties of fruit known for sweet flavors. These ones come from Spain, and they say are the result of years of meticulous farming.

 

Cotton Candy Green Grapes

 

"We work with fruit growers around the world to source the new varieties of fruit like these," Alberto Goldbacher, the store's fruit procurement manager said in a recent blog post.

 

"People work a lifetime to perfect these varieties. They naturally cross one flavour of grape with another, using soft brushes like the ones you use for make-up to cross the pollen from one plant to another."

 

"We’ve got a few different examples in stores at the moment, including our really popular candy gloss grapes, with a gorgeous sweet vanilla taste, and juicy Grower's Selection king plums, which have an incredible bubblegum flavour and a lovely red flesh."

 

And apparently people love them...What's next? Beef that tastes like chicken?

Comments

Fred Klein

At least they are not sour grapes. :)

Submitted by ArtLizza on Sat, 08/19/2017 - 00:05

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Art Lizza

I'm in favor of anything that don't got preservatives in it....

or steroids....

or hormones...

or glyphosate....

or.....
Norman Spizz

last night I had chicken for dinner. it tasted just like frogs legs.

Submitted by MarilynGenoa on Sat, 08/19/2017 - 00:56

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Marilyn Genoa

We only buy organic non gmo etc etc and Whole Foods has organic green grapes that ate similar to your post. They were yummy. My daughter investigates everything so they passed the "Jamie test" before we purchased them.
Corey Bearak

This experimentation seems akin to grape varietals and how various finished wines get described in such ways as dry, fruity, honey, etc. Paul N. should weigh in on this. Interesting I received tomorrow's Sunday News comics today and there was one about fermenting grapes, adding yeast and sugar and then someone decides to add a liter (or maybe a quart) of Whiskey....
Gideon Schein

What's next already exists. In Minneapolis there is a store which makes vegan food that tastes and looks exactly like beef chicken and pork.
Rona Gura

My kids love them. Me, not so much. I like a grape that tastes like a grape.

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