The grocery removes the old, unsold apples, which includes both bad apples and good apples. They--or at least the grocery businesses around here--do not take p

The grocery removes the old, unsold apples, which includes both bad apples and good apples. They--or at least the grocery businesses around here--do not take proactive measures to remove bad fruit of any kind. That is why I frequently see mold on fruits that have been purchased earlier in the same day. I have seen enough of this to know not only that one bad apple will [eventually] spoil the whole bag, but also that one bad orange will ruin its bag, and one bad strawberry will embadden all the strawberries touching it, but that melons, potatoes, and pomegranates are still mostly good after you remove and throw out all the moldy parts. Cops are more like oranges than apples. They go bad a lot faster in the presence of corruption.