Word: fruitings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as West German tourists have a reputation for boorishness in the West, East Germans are detested in the East bloc for being rude and arrogant. "They come over here with their heavy marks and they buy up all the fruit in sight," says a Czech official. "Then they lecture us about how much better life is in the G.D.R." The recent relaxation of travel barriers between the Communist countries has not thrilled anybody...
...such choice export items as fiber-glass boats and camper iceboxes, nearly every East German product, from chewing gum to paint, is inferior to its Western equivalent. Distribution is bad, and shortages of even items like toilet paper are chronic. People still line up for such things as fruit-grapefruits are sold only to diabetics. Shoppers often return home emptyhanded. "You always walk around with a pocketful of money," says a Leipzig woman, "because you never know what you may find in the shops...
...Because when we ate the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil we would suddenly acquire the knowledge of good and evil which we weren't supposed to have, right...
Seraph: So there was no question in either of your minds, then, that eating the fruit of those two trees was a no-no, was there...
...evil thing we're supposed to have done is eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, right...