IM with Pesky Godson last night:<\/p>\n
(I’ve scabbled with this point with Diane about MacIntosh long as we’ve been a couple.)<\/p>\n
Me: Funny place to go to {La Porte, Indiana} ..how did you get there?<\/p>\n
PG: By bus<\/p>\n
Me: For the express purpose of apple picking?<\/p>\n
PG: yes, and having fun
\nit was subsidised by the school
\nI only paid a dollar for the bus
\n(and over 20 for apple-related products)<\/p>\n
Me: Did you tell Susan? She’s been picking apples for weeks now.<\/p>\n
PG: tell her what? oh, she’s doing that after all? no, I hadn’t I should write her<\/p>\n
Me: compare apples ; )<\/p>\n
PG: to apples<\/p>\n
Me: yes. what kind? Surely, not Macintosh<\/p>\n
PG: Well funny story about that. we went and they took us on our little hayride out into the orchard and they stopped and said “there’s red delicious on this side and yellow delicious on that side” the problem is
\nred delicious are a poor excuse for an apple and golden delicious are good enough for eating, but not for cooking, which is what we wanted to do so instead, we spent most of our time walking around, I impressed some people by identifying apples by taste<\/p>\n
Me: wow you would have me too<\/p>\n
PG: And then we went back to the store, bought the varieties we actually wanted, and ate cider donuts and drank cider… it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that hard<\/p>\n
Me: Sounds like such a wholesome, Indiana kind of activity now you know where I get my personality. You know my favorite apple is the red delicious.<\/p>\n
PG: The ones I had to identify were red delicious (by shape, taste and texture), golden (colour), granny smith (colour), and fuji (size and taste), and Macintosh (taste and mushiness)<\/p>\n
Really? I can’t stand the things<\/p>\n
Me: Wait! Wait!<\/p>\n
PG: What?<\/p>\n
Me: You think Macintosh is mushy?<\/p>\n
PG: More so than some other varieties it has a certain distinctive mushy quality.<\/p>\n
Me: I argue that point with Diane all the time<\/p>\n
PG: Compare it to, say, Granny Smith<\/p>\n
Me: I agree Someone once said – some so-called apple authority – that red delicious were neither. I liked that line<\/p>\n
PG:kind of like how the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
IM with Pesky Godson last night: (I’ve scabbled with this point with Diane about MacIntosh long as we’ve been a couple.) Me: Funny place to go to {La Porte, Indiana} ..how did you get there? PG: By bus Me: For … Continue reading