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Preach!
Peach!
The most reasonable interpretation is that you cannot use the standards of apples on oranges, nor the other way around.
You wouldn’t fault an apple because it doesn’t have a thick skin that needs peeling.
and this, 🟠, is a tangerine
Spotting differences is also a form of comparison, so the phrase makes no sense at all
French version is “from ass to cock”, IE, from donkey to chicken.
Fun fact: the German equivalent is with apples and pears which makes even less sense
Love apples, hate pears, can’t eat both because they give me diarrhea :(
Apples and pears both give you delicious hard ciders!
Yes, and apples make the best non alcoholic drinks, imo
And the best pie.
Only if you don’t count peach cobbler as pie.
Does anyone count cobbler as pie?
yeah. I don’t know how common it is but it was the subject of some debate at the kids’ table for a few thanksgivings. I was raised on the “cobbler and pie are two distinct dishes” side of the family.
I think of it as a pie kind of the same way I think of pizza as a pie: like, it’s maybe technically a pie but it’s different enough that it merits its own name. Calling it “pie” sounds odd.
I disagree with you, but I respect the moxie of comparing apples and oranges and apples and pears.
Bitch that phrase don’t make no sense, why can’t fruit be compared?
-Lil Dicky
Do you fuck with the war?
This bitch don’t know bout pangea
I’ve heard the dicky don’t get little if you use it enough to not atrophy.
Still better than the Portuguese equivalent: “what does the arse[hole] have to do with the pants?” (o que o cu tem a ver com as calças?)
this is so real (R$) i have never understood that one
I never understood it either.
real (R$)
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Petition to change the phrase:
‘You can’t compare apples and tomatoes.’
… now it makes considerably less sense, and also does splash damage against the concept of a vegetable.
Apples make jam, oranges make marmalade. Only apple juice turns tasty when fermenting it.
Apple jam? The fuck?
It’s good stuff, EXCELLENT on pumpernickel toast
Apple butter is superior for sure!
Apple jam exists, but mostly apples make applesauce or apple butter or apple jelly. Or apple pie.
Orange pulp and pith turn bitter when cooked, which is why marmalade uses only the juice and a thin layer of the zest, which is boiled and drained to remove bitterness before cooking with the juice.
Depends on who’s making it. The pith may add some bitterness but it also allows you to make it without adding pectin because it is naturally present.
Yes I understand that to be true. I tried with some of my extra lemons and somehow managed to get the bitterness without the gelling effect, but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe it works if properly done.
That’s it…
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The phrase is to say two things are not the same, not that they aren’t similar.
So why isn’t the phrase that then?
“Apples and oranges are not the same.”
The phrase isn’t “you can’t compare apples and oranges” it’s “it’s like comparing apples and oranges”. Meaning that what you’re comparing are distinct things with their own merits, and it would be silly to try to declare an objective winner. It basically does mean that apples and oranges aren’t the same.
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