388: Fuck Grapefruit
| Fuck Grapefruit |
 Title text: Coconuts are so far down to the left they couldn't be fit on the chart. Ever spent half an hour trying to open a coconut with a rock? Fuck coconuts. |
[edit] Explanation
This comic consists in a chart where Randall plotted fruits according to two criteria: ease/difficulty to eat, and tastiness. For instance, pineapples are deemed fairly tasty but very difficult to eat, whereas (seeded) grapes are very tasty and rather easy, and logically seedless grapes are equally tasty while being far more easy at the same time.
Obviously being easy to eat is preferable to being difficult, and being tasty is preferable to being untasty, so the "best" fruits (regarding these two aspects only) are in the top-right corner, and the worst in the bottom-left one; additionally, in the top-left corner are the "difficult-but-worthy" fruits, and in the bottom-right one, the "not-so-tasty-but-easy-anyway" ones.
According to the resulting chart, grapefruit is the worst fruit (from the ones listed at least): eating one of them is like spending too much of one's time and energy without much reward. Therefore, fuck grapefruit.
The title text adds a joke about coconuts, concerning the fact that they are incredibly more difficult to eat (especially to open) than the usual mainstream fruits such as the ones plotted here. Therefore, 1/ coconuts could not fit on the chart, they are too much on the left (or if they had been put in the chart, they would have relegated all the other fruits on the far right, all equally "easy" in comparison to coconuts and therefore indiscernible between each other on this criterion); and 2/ fuck coconuts as well.
[edit] Transcript
- [A X Y plot of fruit, showing tastiness on the vertical axis and difficulty-of-consumption on the horizontal axis. The Y-axis goes from "tasty" at the top, to "untasty" at the bottom. The X-axis goes from "easy" on the right to "difficult" on the left.]
- {The following listing for each fruit assumes that the extremes of each axis are 100%. Note that this does not agree with the alt text, but whatever.}
- [Seedless grapes: 75% tasty, 100% easy
- Peaches: 100% tasty, 75% easy
- Strawberries: 80% tasty, 75% easy
- Blueberries: 70% tasty, 90% easy
- Pears: 30% tasty, 75% easy
- Green apples: 25% tasty, 80% easy
- Seeded grapes: 75% tasty, 10% easy
- Cherries: 30% tasty, 40% easy
- Plums: 10% tasty, 60% easy
- Red apples: 5% untasty, 80% easy
- Bananas: 10% untasty, 10% easy
- Watermelons: 10% tasty, 10% difficult
- Tomatoes: 60% untasty, 20% easy
- Pineapples: 50% tasty, 100% difficult
- Oranges: 40% untasty, 50% difficult
- Lemons: 100% untasty, 10% difficult
- Pomegranates: 10% untasty, 90% difficult
- Grapefruit: 90% untasty, 80% difficult]
add a comment!Discussion
- Yeah! And red apples are clearly more tasty than green (unless you're using them for cooking), and bananas are the tastiest fruit ever! In other words, it's all subjective. (You might argue that the seeds add to the flavour, much like a small amout of fat in meat; obviously the fact that they're less easy implies pulling all the seeds out first to make sure you don't bite one.) 94.0.161.247 10:34, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
- Seedless grapes (and seedless versions of other fruits) are often considered to be slightly less tasty than their seeded counterparts because a compromise was made: putting all efforts toward being tasty and easy to grow, versus dividing the effort between those and making them seedless. Additionally, some seedless fruits (including certain brands or breeds) are simply less mature versions of their seedless equivalent (this is part of why some bunches of seedless grapes have seeds in many of the fruits, albeit smaller and/or fewer seeds than the seeded equivalent). It's also possible that the y-axis difference between the two was unintentional, but there's enough of a difference that I'm strongly in favor of interpreting it as intentional. JET73L (talk) 17:34, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
