Surely it is illegal for Supermarkets to stick the words 'Ripen at home' on a punnet of Nectarines or a bunch of Bananas? More accurately it should read 'Stay completely unripe for a week and then suddenly become utterly rotten at home'.
I'm willing to bet nobody has successfully ripened any 'Ripen at home' fruit at their abode. Each day you pick-up that peach, give it a gentle squeeze, a breeze block would be softer, you return it to the bowl upset that you won't be supping on the sweet fruit. After several more days of this you approach the bowl, pick up the fruit and your hand is moist and slimy, you rotate the fruit and discovered it is now completely rotted and covered in mould.
After many years of this you've learned the error of your ways and instead decide to not bother ripening. You take a bite and crack 4 of your teeth on the granite like peach.
Finally you give-up. Fruit isn't that nice anyway, what's a bit of scurvy between friends?
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