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When I worked retail, the problem wasn't "knowing the code" for the fruit. We could look that part up. But in order to look up the code, you had to know what the fruit was called, if it didn't have a sticker or label. That was the hard part -- at least until the equipment was modernized and also included pictures.
Most of the time, if you didn't know what the thing was, you could just ask the customer "What is this?" and then look it up from there.
However, a surprisingly frequent problem was that the customer wouldn't actually know what the thing was or what it was called. They were buying it just to try it, no idea what it tastes like, how to use it, what it costs, or what it's called.
It takes a special kind of adult to see something that they don't know what it is but then to also decide "I'd like to eat that." But then again maybe it's because of this type of person that our ancestors figured out that pineapples are delicious but hemlock is deadly.
If it's in the fruit aisle and I don't know what it is, I'm absolutely buying it. Trying new things is great.
Yeah, me too mostly. New fruit / veggie that I don't know what it is or tastes like? Just my style.
But, I'm also going to read the sign(s) so that I know what it's called and how much it costs. I don't need to get up to the checkout to find out that the "warty pink golf ball sized fruit thingy" is going to cost me $22. And I definitely want to know how to tell if it's ripe or whether it needs to be cooked first and not eaten raw.