# When and how did green grapes get so big and plump and tight?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-and-how-did-green-grapes-get-so-big-and-plump-and-tight/824949>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 22, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-and-how-did-green-grapes-get-so-big-and-plump-and-tight/824949 "2018-11-22T16:56:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-and-how-did-green-grapes-get-so-big-and-plump-and-tight/824949/21 "2018-11-28T20:06:48Z")

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> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Do they have seeds? Every dark grape I ever bit into had a -surprise- hidden in the middle.
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> And not, like, a fun surprise. These only concealed a hard, tooth-jarring surprise.
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> But your description makes them sound so tasty …

You would think that at some point, it would no longer be a surprise 😃

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**Author:** ![Frank\_Burly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frank_burly/32/24_2.png) [@Frank\_Burly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_Burly)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-and-how-did-green-grapes-get-so-big-and-plump-and-tight/824949/22 "2018-11-29T03:53:43Z")

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> [@Jasmine](#):
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> Am I the only one who finds that vaguely obscene? 😃

Nope.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-and-how-did-green-grapes-get-so-big-and-plump-and-tight/824949/23 "2018-11-29T04:01:37Z")

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> [@Jasmine](#):
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> Am I the only one who finds that vaguely obscene? 😃

I thought that might happen. 🙂

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