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from "Alan Holmes" contains these words:

Do home grown ones taste any better?

Were they french?

If they were, that is the problem, I never ever buy french apples as I find
them completely tastless.

It's not their Frenchness so much as their treatment for export, and
that applies to a lot of stuff from different countries.

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