apple idiocy

updated thu 6 jan 05

Laura McKenzie on wed 5 jan 05

Pat, Artificial Grape Flavor? Doesn't that taste like cough syrup? I guess
its for picky kids who don't like apples, right?

Laura

Just read in the latest Consumer Reports magazine that there's a new
product, one the world has no doubt been waiting for, that infuses an apple
with artificial grape flavor. This thing is called a Grapple (long "a";
pronounce as Grape-l).

Consumer Reports didn't have anything good to say about it. Gee, I wonder
why not.....? I should think we're all so tired of apples by now that we'll
welcome this thing. Then again, when one thinks about the taste of
Delicious Apples, it ain't such a bad idea....

Pat

Patricia Ruggiero on wed 5 jan 05

Just read in the latest Consumer Reports magazine that there's a new
product, one the world has no doubt been waiting for, that infuses an =
apple
with artificial grape flavor. This thing is called a Grapple (long "a";
pronounce as Grape-l).

Consumer Reports didn't have anything good to say about it. Gee, I =
wonder
why not.....? I should think we're all so tired of apples by now that =
we'll
welcome this thing. Then again, when one thinks about the taste of
Delicious Apples, it ain't such a bad idea....

Pat

Patricia Ruggiero on wed 5 jan 05

Laura wrote:

> Pat, Artificial Grape Flavor? Doesn't that taste like cough
> syrup?

Well, now, I wouldn't know, not being a consumer of grape cough =
syrup.....

> I guess its for picky kids who don't like apples, right?

Yeah, you could kill two birds with one stone: get the kid to eat a =
Grapple,
something (that was, originally) healthy while treating his cough. How =
very
clever of these folks.

Grappling with the sheer lunacy of all this,
Pat

Susan Setzler on thu 6 jan 05

Pat, you have a way with words! and fast, too.

susan