Category: pears...

pears are different from apples in being sweeter, softer, and have grit or stone cells in the flesh (absent in apples)
Italy is the world's leading pear producer
Stilton cheese and fresh pears
O, white pear,
your flower-tufts
thick on the branch
bring summer and ripe fruits
in their purple hearts. (Hilda Doolittle
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.... If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. (Mao Zedong)
The first day of Christmas, My true love sent to me, A partridge in a pear tree.