• Sunsofold@lemmings.world
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    5 days ago

    I’m not trying to be a dick about it but I love that you used apples and onions as an example of things with minimal variety when one of those is the most varied product class in the produce department. For onions there are red, green, white, yellow, and shallots. Most of those are different enough that you’d see and taste a swap out immediately. Then, with apples, there are so many varieties at this point, even without including the more niche varieties, a well supplied produce department can have an entire section just for types of apples. They could probably be knocked down into half a dozen categories but many people will be able to differenciate them enough to complain. Most other things are relatively unvaried, maybe a binary split, some a literal monoculture, but those two…