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December 10, 2012

Your Grapefruit Is Plotting to Murder You

Katy Waldman, Slate


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Happy holidays, and brace yourself for the season’s worst tradition! I speak not of the crass commercialization of Christmas, nor of the unconscionable deceit of hyping children up for Santa’s visit. No, I speak of the annual bombardment of grapefruit.

We’ll see Harry and David catalogs in the mail, Cushman’s ads in the newspaper, and other marketing ploys for the putrid stocking stuffers.

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TAGGED: holidays, enzymes, fruit, food, grapefruit

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