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   From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu   
      
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   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote:   
   >On 1/16/14 4:27 PM, Leszek Karlik wrote:   
   >> You can taste an apple in a supermarket and then leave it half-bitten when   
   >> it turns out you don't like the taste? Around here, eating the goods before   
   >> purchasing them seems to be frowned upon.   
   >   
   >	Not apples, no, but I can examine them FAR more closely -- read a   
   >couple pages, so to speak -- in person than I could remotely, and of   
   >course remotely I have no guarantee that the lovely apple on the screen   
   >is actually the apple that I'm going to get.   
      
   My supermarket does actually quite often cut up some of the produce and   
   put it on ice for people to sample.  I bought a couple of oranges just   
   the other day because they were very tasty.   
      
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