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Red Delicious Apples, the ultimate looks-can-be-deceiving fruit.
紅香蘋果,一種外表可以騙人的終極水果。
You will think with a name like that, it will actually taste, well, delicious, but nope.
你會認為,有了這樣一個名字,它的味道一定會很好,很美味,但事實並非如此。
They taste just terrible.
味道太難吃了。
And guess what?
你猜怎麼著?
They were the most produced apple in the US for 50 years.
50 年來,它們一直是美國產量最高的蘋果。
I know, right?
我知道,對吧?
But as it turns out, it used to have an acceptable taste previously.
但事實證明,以前的味道還可以接受。
The Red Delicious Apple once called Hawkeye was a tasty red-yellow-stripe fruit.
紅美味蘋果曾被稱為 "鷹眼",是一種美味的紅黃條紋水果。
However, in 1922, mutation of a Red Delicious Apple lead to a focus on prettier redder apple.
然而,1922 年,紅美味蘋果的變異導致人們開始關注更漂亮的紅蘋果。
And then people started to just, like, try to breed it into redder and prettier.
然後,人們開始嘗試把它培育得更紅、更漂亮。
So they end up becoming the Red Delicious we know today, which are terrible.
是以,它們最終變成了我們今天所熟知的紅美味,非常糟糕。
As consumers discover the better-tasting varieties, the industry face a surplus and financial crisis.
隨著消費者發現更美味的品種,該行業面臨過剩和財務危機。
So what do we do?
那我們該怎麼辦?
Explore Red Delicious Apple to unsuspecting foreigners before they find out how terrible it is.
在不知情的外國人發現紅美味蘋果有多糟糕之前,向他們介紹紅美味蘋果。
That's what we do.
這就是我們的工作。