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Friday Fun Thread for February 13, 2026

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Do you prefer apples or oranges? ;-)

IMO, apples taste slightly better, but oranges obviously are far more convenient to eat if you don't have access to a knife (e. g., at work).

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I don't peel or cut apples, so oranges are far less convenient.

I don't peel or cut apples

But it's so annoying!

(1) Hold the apple with its north pole facing left. Eat the temperate and tropic zones from east to west (i. e., from top to bottom, since taking bites is easier with your top incisors than with your bottom incisors).

(2) Hold the apple with its north pole facing downward. Eat the arctic zone (again, using your top incisors). After each bite, you must rotate the apple about its axis.

(3) Hold the apple with its north pole facing upward. Eat the antarctic zone. After each bite, you must rotate the apple about its axis.

This takes forever, in comparison to just cutting the apple into four quarters with eleven cuts (including core removal) and then eating it in eight bites (maybe four if it's tiny or twelve if it's huge).

You can eat the arctic and antarctic zones from the side as well, though it might depend somewhat on the type of apple (Red Delicious would make this difficult due to the thick skin and mushy flesh, but there are plenty of firmer, thinner-skinned varieties).

I once knew a guy that would eat the whole apple, core and all. Lots of apple seeds might be a poisoning concern, but I hear the core is otherwise fine, if less tasty than the rest.

Friend of mine once caught me entirely flatfooted when he just out and ate a whole kiwi, unpeeled.

That's my understanding. I know some cyanide-bearing seeds get through mostly unabsorbed unless damaged (e.g. from putting them in a blender, or chewing them), but I don't know whether apple seeds are one of them and eating any amount of cyanide isn't a great idea.

I don't recall being on a timer when I want to eat an apple.

Get a load of this guy, he doesn't even time his apples. I bet the Fastest Dump leaderboard at his house is a joke too.

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