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WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH

Does New York even HAVE apples? Why is New York called the Big Apple?

Posted - August 10, 2019
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  • 19937

    New York grows more apple varieties than any other state. With nearly 700 growers and 10,000,000+ trees, we produce enough apples each year to bake 500 million apple pies!

     

      August 10, 2019 10:09 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    As Johnny Carson used to say: "I did not know that." 
      August 10, 2019 10:14 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I knew NYS grew apples, but not that many or that many different kinds. :)
      August 10, 2019 1:29 PM MDT
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  • 11163
    Deep dish apple pies or regular size apple  pies.  Actually I was surprised to hear New York produces that amount of apples. Cheers and happy weekend! 
      August 10, 2019 11:04 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Me as well.  I thought apples were American and New York was American as apple pie or something.  I thought Washington was the Apple place.  Washington state.

    CHEER

    (that is my new answer, so I don't have to write the exclamation point.  It's too far on the keyboard!)

    Cheer  

    I like it.   This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at August 10, 2019 1:28 PM MDT
      August 10, 2019 11:06 AM MDT
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  • 44656
    I assume you are talking about NYC. They call it that because 'The Big A**hole' was already taken.
      August 10, 2019 11:41 AM MDT
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  • 11163
    I was just thinking that maybe the reason they still call it the Big Apple is to get Trump out of there - they figured he would be repulsed by the mention of fruit. Cheers and happy weekend!
      August 10, 2019 12:04 PM MDT
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  • 3719
    I learnt something new there about 'The Big Apple' and the cultivation of apples in New York State, but the apple is by no means American even as a wild tree. I quote from Wikipedia.


    " The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found today. Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe and were brought to North America by European colonists. "


    And that must have been written by an American: " were brought to..."
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      August 10, 2019 2:14 PM MDT
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