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When I was a kid there was a grape boycott, I didn't really know too much about farm workers or organized labor, I was too young for that. I just heard you weren't supposed to eat grapes. So I developed this lifelong attitude about fresh grapes that makes no sense at all.

I don't mind the taste, and I love wine, I just have this deep seated sense that it's wrong to buy and enjoy table grapes. I recognize that it is fully nonsensical, I don't avoid them when they're right in front of me, it's just a thing that was embedded in my subconscious early on, and I don't actually care enough about grapes to try to "fix" my "condition".

Not long ago I was in an agricultural region of France, where the politics of grapes are totally different, and the actual grapes in markets are amazing and delicious. Did I buy any? No, because I was on vacation and it would have entailed a weird psychological battle with myself that would not have been worth the effort. I did drink the wine, and eat all the other produce. Just no fresh table grapes.

I wonder if a bunch of kids are going to grow up with something like that, but for romaine. This is the second time in a year, that's an eternity if you're a small child.

>>9502245
I didn't hate grapes but I grew up during the Uvas No thing, so every time I eat them I feel guilty. I actively avoided them until my 20s and even now I don't eat them unless they're basically shoved in my face