Rapefruit: it's "good for every meal"

From the Mankato Free Press, of Minnesota. Oops. [Romenesko]

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And then there’s this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed
- corydodt
  
  Well, how else are you going to grow a rapefruit.
- http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty
  
  There were huge yellow fields of that stuff around where I used to live. Oil-seed Rape, from which you get Rape-seed Oil, obv.
  “Those are the rape fields”
  - GawainLavers
    
    I still think they should have gone with “Mutant Hybrid Rape Oil” instead of “Canola”.
  - http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns
    
    THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY
    - http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
      
      Of that ilk, certainly.
  - oasisob1
    
    Quite common in Northern Japan. I like to ask the question, in Japanese, what are those flowers, rapeflowers? Are wa nan no hana, nanohana? It kills with the locals.
Brainspore

Morality aside, who even has the stamina to rape fruit every meal?
- GawainLavers
  
  Who indeed…
  - hyperfocal
    
    SO much win
  - Promethean Sky
    
    My first thought as well.
- CLamb
  
  Maybe it is the fruit which is performing the rape?
http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Agenbroad/100002463876063 James Agenbroad

Use a little imagination, people. That slice is supposed to represent the first letter. That’s not “rapefruit” it’s “Crapfruit.”
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Zachary-Horst/724350148 Zachary Horst
  
  Crap eFruit?
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Agenbroad/100002463876063 James Agenbroad
    
    Just like adding the “e” to creme filling it implies that there isn’t any ACTUAL crap, just that it tastes LIKE crap.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Crape fruit – http://www.flickr.com/photos/angelrays/315431154/
http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/ pduggie

Kerning, people. Kerning!
- Brainspore
  
  “Hey baby, you into kerning? Because I think ‘U’ and ‘I’ should be closer together.” —Creepy guy at bar who enjoys rapefruit
  - robuluz
    
    Creepy guy at the bar who enjoys rapefruit and typography.
- SamSam
  
  Exactly. Everything would have been perfectly fine if the P and the E were a little closer together. As it is it almost looks like “Rap Efruit.” Preposterous! I’d hate to be in the layout designers shoes now. Rap efruit…
- kinscore
  
  Oops, sorry; dropped a slice of grapefruit on my newspaper…I’ll pick it up…
http://twitter.com/Lobes Lobes

KEEP CALM AND EAT RAPEFRUIT
anansi133

I’ll bet the art direction for this specified a 3/4 slice of fruit, and it somehow went downhill from there. Crapfruit indeed!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Nell-Anvoid/100002383626402 Nell Anvoid

I see no mention of whether this refers to legitimate rapefruit or not.
- PhosPhorious
  
  I’m sure the fruit has a way of shutting the whole ting down.
- http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
  
  Isn’t rapefruit what you get when God wanted you to be raped and not get an abortion?
  - robotnik
    
    So good, it hurts.
SpudNYC

A nutritious breakfast has ways of shutting that whole thing down.
tomrigid

Have another glass of this refreshing and delicious rapejuice. It’s refreshing and delicious.
snoproblem

Does it come in 40 pound boxes?