A future of grapples and graisins?

Genetically modified fruit is either amazing or evil. I can’t decide which. No matter which side you fall on, it sure is intriguing. It’s mind-blowing that scientists can take tomatoes and combine them with lemons. It’s a fruit centaur.

WebEcoist, a magazine specializing in “environmental oddities,” profiles some of the more promising fruit-and-veggie hybrids, many of which may be commonplace in the future.

One I don’t think will make the cut is a graisin, which is just a giant raisin. It tastes the same except it’s a lot bigger. While the Japanese scientists who developed it are obviously extremely smart, I can’t imagine a scenario in which you’d need one huge raisin instead of lots of little ones.

But really large grapes would have some uses. They’d be easier to eat on the go and less messy. Enter the grapple.