The All-American Fruit

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They' are definitely not the apple of my eye. Baked in hot pies from grandma's kitchen. Bobbed from a tub on Halloween. A crisp fall snack. Some may say it is the All-American fruit. One a day could possibly keep the doctor away. Apples. Apples are a widely popular fruit among many cultures. They have been a part of the human diet for many years. The Greeks began growing apples around 300 B.C. . Europeans brought the fruit to the New World. Apple harvesting in America began in Jamestown in 1607, and served a sole purpose in the production of cider for the colonies. It is believed that apples were the fruit that Eve ate off the tree in the beginning. God spoke only one command to Adam and Eve, "You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Well, the serpent came along and tempted Eve telling her all the joys she would receive from this fruit. Eve disobeyed God and gave into the serpent's deceitfulness. Then, she let her husband try a bite and the fall occurred. Therefore, their eyes were opened and they saw each other in an impure way. Exactly what God was trying to keep them from. Basically, Eve messed things up for all of us with an apple. Can we just take a …show more content…

A little round fruit that is red, sometimes yellow, or sometimes green. Everything about an apple makes me want to cringe: the taste, the smell, the texture, the skin, the sound it makes when someone is loudly chomping into it. The list goes on and on. I have painful memories of my mother forcing me to go into the Apple Barn at Opry Mills Mall. Seriously, this store was all apples: apple candles, apple candy, apple decorations, apple toys, apple cider. Who comes up with something like that? The scent from the Apple Barn reeked throughout the mall. And for someone who gets painful headaches at the whiff of that awful fruit, believe me it was terrible. My mom played the, "you're overreacting" card on me each time. I never won that