A ripe persimmon looks rotten by any other fruit’s standards. It will usually be a ball of mush thinly contained by a weak skin. The force of hitting the ground usually breaks that skin, so that you could be fooled into thinking someone stepped on the fruit, and why would you want to eat something that looks rotten and stepped on?
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