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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Medlars
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Date: Sun, 28-Apr-85 14:34:34 EDT
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> Has anyone in netland ever tasted a medlar?  Are they really as disgusting
> as this makes them sound?
> -- 
> Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
> aka Swazoo Koolak
> 

	I first learned about medlars when reading Shakespeare. A character
compares a woman to a medlar, this being both a pun on "meddler" and on the
fruit itself. The fruit is not eaten until it gets so soft it is almost
rotten, and what happens is that the bud end (opposite the stem) shrinks
into the fruit, ending up looking something like a particular bodily 
orifice. You therefore get the idea this was a rather naughty pun, y'see.
Our prof explained that medlars were actually more closely related to
pears than apples, also. 
-- 
  

jcpatilla

"'Get stuffed !', the Harlequin replied ..."