Munch

Munch

The apple. An icon to some, a home to others 🐛, and food to everyone and everything. It has seduced beloveds right after deterring doctors, with expressions such as “apple of my eye,” and “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”  It has been compared to the incomparable (or the unrhymable) with the expression “comparing apples to oranges,” while also referencing the comparability of one with others, with the phrase “the apple never falls far from the tree.” Along with a handful of more expressions, such as “rotten to the core,” “one rotten apple spoils the whole bunch,” and “don’t upset the apple cart,” the apple has surely planted itself into our jargon and language.

I often wonder what certain fruits tasted like – thousands of years ago.

The apple has also managed to scatter itself across the world. New York City, arguably the most well known metropolis in the world, is oftentimes referred to as “the big apple.” Not only this, but one of the biggest tech companies in the world somehow managed to trademark the apple and has now become synonymous with evolution, and superiority (or at least tried).

What if they were sweeter? Sucks to think that we might never know.

But, as is true for all things, there is also a rotten side to the apple. For in the story of Adam and Eve, although not explicitly mentioned, it is alluded to that the fruit that sent all of humanity into damnation was the apple. Ironic, isn’t it? The fruit that dropped us to earth into everlasting punishment is also the fruit that we’ve all grown to love and enjoy.  Furthermore, and still on the rotten side, the seeds that produce all apples, the seeds that are in the core of all apples, contain amygdalin, a compound which releases cyanide when finely chewed. Although the individual seeds contain small traces of it, roughly 200 seeds contain enough cyanide to turn over a new man.

But, enough of that, there’s no need to feel so blue in a world so red.

                            

Munch

~Richard Gonzalez