Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for December 17, 2021

I’ve got a major grudge against grapefruit.

For one thing, they taste like poison. I’ve never heard of another fruit traditionally eaten by dumping sugar on top of it.

For another, the name. Not only is a grape already a fruit, I can’t think of a fruit more different from grapes (small, sweet, green or purple, smooth, grows on vines) than the so-called “grapefruit” (big, bitter, yellow and orange, bumpy, grow on trees).

The only thing they have in common is that grapefruit also (sorta) grow in clusters, but that’s like renaming crocodiles “dog-animals” because they also have four legs and a tail.