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You're right, and I actually thought about that. But that's the way I've always heard it described (and yes, it has come up before) so I just went with it. Orange is maybe better, but you don't peel an orange and then just bite into it, you eat it section by section. Banana would work but the difference in shape makes it weird. Not sure there's a great analogue