We could probably get him to forget the whole Greenland thing by embarrassing him about calling it the wrong thing, and he'll never want to bring it up again
But they were all of them deceived, for another citrus was bred. In the sun-scorched groves of Barbados, in hidden orchards, Captain Shaddock labored in secret to create the grapefruit, that would outshine all citrus. And into this grapefruit they nurtured all their boldness, their ambition, and their desire to reshape the taste of life itself. One fruit to eclipse them all.
They mean we just say and see the world as is needed to understand it at that time and place