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Thanksgiving is often a time when family comes together and pretends that everything’s going well, and there is perhaps no better ornament to suit this atmosphere than a cornucopia of decorative fake fruit. It emerges annually from the storage closet unchanged, always ripe and never bruised, unlike those relatives who used to be cuter and but now seem dedicated to disappointing you.

Aside from this seasonal bounty of plastic, it’s safe to say that there are millions of decorative fake fruits all over the world—perhaps enough to replace actual fruit in produce aisles. They could fill up multiple landfills, thousands of fake fridges, and easily be a stem-filler fo

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