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I feel like there's something major I'm missing here. Is this satire or a metaphor? Or is this literally an article talking about how you are physiologically capable of eating and digesting (mostly) an entire apple? Personally, I don't like the taste (well, more the texture) of the apple core, so I stay away from it. But... what? The absurdity of this article just leaves me confused... like I said, I think I'm missing something.

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I think that was the point, my wife eats the core, she always has. Eats the 'strings' on a bananna too. Me I'm a bit more picky than that :-). So the article is trying to point out that the whole apple is 'edible' and tries to frame it like you're "wasting" the good bits.

It's satire. I particularly liked the bit where he suggested we use the $13.2 billion we save to buy a new Mark Zuckerberg.

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