And now that Plum’s gone it’s time to resolve this for real. As always, I am prepared to be a good role model to all potential readers. Remember kids, incest is only acceptable when parental violence is no longer an option, and if it’s not, then you’re doing something wrong.
Fruit Incest
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She could threaten to peel them alive or, in Apple’s case, to core him.
And of course she’s not okay with it. After all, if a brother and sister fruit have a child together, it could end up a vegetable.
Nice.
I’ve been waiting for a good time to make that quip for weeks.
The fruit equivalent of neutering would be seedless, but there’s generally only two fruits that are usually sold that way, and one of them is the one doing the threatening.
I almost went with deseed, but I’m pretty sure that isn’t a word, and “seed” carries other double entendres with it, unfortunately.
Actually, deseed is a word, though I don’t think it’s one that sees a lot of usage, at least in my experience—I had to check the dictionary (although it would have been a valid derived word regardless). I don’t think it would have carried the same oomph as threatening to murder them, however. Fruit preparation terms don’t carry much in the way of connotations of violence.
I was going to point out that the main reason incest is looked down upon is due to the belief that the children have a higher chance of birth defects, and that apples and oranges can’t cross-polinate, but then I remembered that their parents are a pineapple and grapes.
I like your name.