apple

From Family Feud a couple of years ago:
Bert Newton: Name a green vegetable.
Contestant: Umm... apple?
Me: *facepalm*

Strangely enough, kewpid, while I read your comment I was biting into an apple. (Having lunch at my desk as usual.)

I'm eating one right now. Yum yum.

"saepibus in nostris parvam te roscida mala
- dux ego vester eram - vidi cum matre legentem.
alter ab undecimo tum me iam acceperat annus,
iam fragilis poteram a terra contingere ramos.
ut vidi, ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error!

In our orchard-close I saw thee, a little girl with her mother--
I guided you both--gathering apples wet with dew:
the next year after eleven had just received me:
I could just reach the brittle branches from the ground.
As I saw, how I perished, how the fatal craze swept me away!"
- 'Eclogue VIII', Virgil.

"Iduna keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they feel old age approaching, have only to taste of to become young again. It is in this manner that they will be kept in renovated youth until Ragnarok." - Edda.

Another version of the same fragment:

Like the sweet-apple reddening high on the branch,
High on the highest, the apple-pickers forgot,
Or not forgotten, but one they couldn’t reach…
– Sappho, tr. A.S. Kline

Shall I compare you
To a lone red apple
High atop the tallest tree
Some say all who came
Passed it by
I say none
Can reach that high.
– Sappho

I don't get it...

Apple : Macintosh :: Blackberry : ?

Click on the "?" for the answer. There are 4 separate qualities the answer shares with the others.

Excellent suggestion, rt. Will do.

It does sound like a Wisconsin thing. Or maybe PA, where I live. Cheese is King in Philadelphia. :-)

I say you start your own list of serendipitous typos, npydyuan. Imagine the possibilities!

Sounds like a Wisconsin thing. Ya know, where you sit around on your dupa eating enormous apple pies with lots of cheese. And beer.

Is there a good word for a serendipitous typo? On first attempt at above sentence, I came up with enormouse. Scary and cute!

Really? But cheese is so good with apples!

or mock apple pie with Ritz crackers?

Now there's a combination I cannot imagine.

Tasty!

Can somebody explain apple pie with cheddar cheese?

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