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Jesus Christ, apple and grape?!? Poor Americans... in the UK that's Lime and Blackcurrant.

Maybe I just have a really bad sense of taste, but I thought they were just "green" and "purple" (also in the UK).

Why poor Americans? It's purely a matter of taste.

Apple is culturally significant and Blackcurrants are banned in the US (due to then carrying a disease that would devastate one of the forests). So one is more important than lime and the other is totally unfamiliar.

Blackcurrants are banned in the US? Do they not even have Ribena over there!?

You can consume blackcurrants in US. You can't grow it (in some states nowadays). Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackcurrant#History

To be fair, in America green skittles used to be Lime, too. I remember being quite disappointed when they switched to apple.

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