Bruised peaches: things that are too good to be true

Peach puree, Public Domain

Bad cars are lemons. Good cars are peaches. There's a special kind of lemon that appears on the surface to be a peach, which Uri Bram calls an "internally bruised peach."

On his Atoms vs Bits blog, he cites three examples:

• if you meet someone implausibly attractive and also single, there's arguably a higher chance they're a bruis…