Mock Commercialization

At a certain point in September or October 2017, as the pawpaws were falling fast and furious, a couple of them were sitting near some store-bought fruit. Just to see how it would look, I took the stickers off the store-bought grocery-store variety fruit and stuck them to the pawpaws. It looked so normal to see the stickers on the pawpaws--strange since you can't buy pawpaws in grocery stores (I'm sure there are one or two exceptions in places like West Virginia).

I left the stickers on the pawpaws until a couple days later when NJ glanced at them and did a double-take, confused to see grocery store stickers on fruit that isn't sold in grocery stores. After that, I stopped this type of mock commercialization of the pawpaw and just resorted to using a ball-point pen to write the cultivar name on the skins.