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Richard Watson, in "Cogito Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes," tells this story about living in the countryside, in the Netherlands, where Descartes lived for many years:
Once I held up two packages of dark German rye bread and asked the grocery-van driver (he came by our cottage once a week) if they were the same. He was scandalized.
"Very different," he said, but without enough English to be precise.
I bought them both. Indistinguishable.