Why do people eat grapes without paying for them?

[Elixer]

Every time I go past the grape stand in the market, there are always people eating multiple grapes.
You wouldn't do that for any other fruit, blueberries, strawberries, and so on so why is it OK for grapes?

They claim "Trying them to make sure they are sweet", as if that is a good excuse?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

They think its Costco, free samples.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

There are many people who didn't get slapped enough when they were little.

 

[Carson Dyle]

There's a "grape stand" at your market?

 

[pcgeek11]

I've never seen anyone sampling grapes at the market...

 

[Jeeebus]

buying grapes without first tasting them is like playing russian roulette. What looks good from a visual inspection turns into a mushy, tasteless mess when you get home. I'd rather taste a grape at the store than trot back and deal with returning the bag.

 

[Thebobo]

And if grapes why not apples or lettuce, or corn on the cob when will the madness end!

 

[gorcorps]

buying grapes without first tasting them is like playing russian roulette. What looks good from a visual inspection turns into a mushy, tasteless mess when you get home. I'd rather taste a grape at the store than trot back and deal with returning the bag.

I've never seen a grape be perfect on the outside and a "mushy tasteless mess" on the inside. If you can't tell if the grapes are good with your eyes, then somebody raised you wrong

 

[Muse]

Of course, it's not really "OK." I occasionally graze an item, but it's just curiosity and just nibble a bit. I mean once a month or two, I don't make it a habit. And AFAIK, I've never eaten a free grape in a market. It's bad form.

 

[Aikouka]

I've never sampled the grapes, but I have been disappointed with my grape purchases in the past. There have been times when I've bought grapes that visibly pass inspection, but when I go to eat them, the majority of the grapes are a little too tart and firm. I think that's how you describe it? They just don't taste right.

 

[pete6032]

I was so bothered by this that I had to make a thread about it on ATOT.

 

[AntonioHG]

Yeah, I'm gonna start doing that because I've been burned too many times by the visual test. I don't want tart grapes.

 

[TXHokie]

I tried to pay for one grape to taste and the cashier gave me a funny look.

 

[zinfamous]

buying grapes without first tasting them is like playing russian roulette. What looks good from a visual inspection turns into a mushy, tasteless mess when you get home. I'd rather taste a grape at the store than trot back and deal with returning the bag.

this. I'm not buying shitty grapes.

 

[zinfamous]

I've never seen a grape be perfect on the outside and a "mushy tasteless mess" on the inside. If you can't tell if the grapes are good with your eyes, then somebody raised you wrong

um, no. Perfectly firm and ripe grapes can be tasteless and worthless. The only way to confirm grape quality is to taste them.

 

[ManyBeers]

Every time I go past the grape stand in the market, there are always people eating multiple grapes.
You wouldn't do that for any other fruit, blueberries, strawberries, and so on so why is it OK for grapes?

They claim "Trying them to make sure they are sweet", as if that is a good excuse?

what about cherries?

 

[Matthiasa]

And if grapes why not apples or lettuce, or corn on the cob when will the madness end!

Eh I was at a stand selling apples that let us sample each and I don't mean pre cut already oxidizing ones either. Vendors that trust their produce tend to allow sampling if asked.

 

[shortylickens]

Because they are fuckers.

 

[futurefields]

This thread is racist!

 

[amdhunter]

lol, I seen this fat cow eating cherries out of a bag in a supermarket near me, not realizing they are sold by weight. It was fucking hilarious when they said they were going to charge her for a whole bag + whatever she had left. She wanted to take the other bag as well because she "paid" for it.

And when I say fat cow, I mean it. This bitch had fat in her fingers. How much do you have to eat to store fat in your fingers? It's always funny seeing truly obese people angry over food items.

 

[BD231]

scene: WHAT ITS JUST FVCKING GRAPES MAN. Make it so.

 

[Fritzo]

I eat one grape before buying to make sure they don't taste like sadness. They usually unwrap one bag for that exact purpose.

 

[kinev]

Used to be bothered by it, too, but after getting burned by good looking, nasty tasting grapes, started to sample them. If you think about the waste that produce departments have on a daily basis, I don't think they'll miss a grape or two. Also, like Matthisa said, I've asked the produce manager about the mangoes he had if they were any good. He pulled out a knife and cut one open to give me a taste. They were good, so I bought several. After that, I really didn't worry about trying a grape.

I have done it with cherries, blueberries, and blackberries, too. Only if I intend to buy them and if I do, I buy the package that I sampled from. Never done it with strawberries, though. I guess they're too big in my mind to be sampled.

 

[Elixer]

What is it about fruit though that people need to sample them?
You can't tell me you haven't been burned by other food items you have bought before, so, I am generally curious why the OK for some fruit?

There is no guarantee that the fruit sample you get is actually the same as on the stand (or whatever they put fruit on.) either. May or may not be from the same farm.

I mainly brought this up since I saw a person "sample" not from one bunch, but from multiple bags of each kind, green, red, black and in the end, she just walked away and moved on to the green beans section. I figured she must have ate at least 10-20 grapes.
The other people around were also popping grapes into their mouths, although a few of them would give the people popping them in a dirty look.

They must be losing tens of thousands of grapes per year.

 

[Rumpltzer]

I worked produce one summer when I was in undergrad. It was in an upscale suburb of Orlando at a Publix.

If someone wanted to try something, we had no problem with it. This was common with melons (cantaloupe, watermelon, etc.). We had clean knives in the back, so we could pull a plug out of the watermelon and let you taste it. If you like, we put the rind back into the hole and you buy the watermelon. If you don't like, we cut it in half or quarters and sell it as a partial watermelon wrapped in plastic. Stuff like that.

Want to try an apple, a tangerine, a banana, whatever? It wasn't a big deal.

On a daily basis, we'd sort through the produce piles and pull anything that didn't look good. It'd go into the dumpster. There's a lot of waste in produce. Customers wanting to try something was insignificant compared to what gets tossed out.