bossymarmalade | it's like a hootenanny in my mouth

I have a feeling I'm going to be smappy today, as I seem to have been all week. Anyhow.

Lately I've been listening to Xtina's album pretty much nonstop, and it's really such an impressive piece of work. There are places where her ad-libbing gets tiresome and I think she could stand to cut back, but there's places (like in Singing My Song) where she stutters her phrasing and it's So. Cool.

I've also been listening repeatedly to the soundtrack for The Two Towers, Andre's The Love Below, Chris Isaak's Forever Blue, and Tom Waits' Big Time (which is a collection of his live recordings). All of them fabulous, fabulous albums and very much recommended. I'm sad, though, that I seem to have lost my two-disc The N.W.A. Legacy in the office move. I swear, if I ever won the lottery, first thing I'd do is buy a whackload of CDs.

As things stand, though, I'm sitting at work eating an apple; it's papery red and gold and doesn't particularly have a very strong apple taste. It's like a juice apple, or something, but the texture is perfect -- crisp and snapping. I think it might be a Jonagold. I worked at a produce market one year when I was in high school and the apple varieties were always so intriguing -- small cheery pippins and the smug red and golden deliciouses and the insolent macintoshes and the most horrible ones of all, big fat Red Roma apples the size of both my doubled fists, huge and never, ever good all the way through.

One of the girls I worked with couldn't pronounce r's properly, and she was telling me once that sometimes if she missed dinner and had to work she would just eat one of those big "wwwed wwwoma apples" and there was a certain wet, satisfied smack in the way she said it that made sure I'd never want one of those damn apples ever again. Just thinking of them makes me feel that awful sandy, too-sweet texture between my teeth. yaaargh.

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I love that half this post is about apples.

It was, wasn't it? Good Lord. *g*

Ugh, I completely made the mistake of trying Red Roma apples once because they looked so shiny and appealing.

Have you ever tried Snapple Apple? It's nothing like drinking apple juice; it's more like the taste of biting into a really good, crisp apple, and it's best had cold while walking through the snow.

Red Romas are demons, I tell you. DEMON apples.

I've never heard of the Snapple Apple! But I love crisp, chilly apples; I shall have to track one down, if they're to be had out this way. I'm sure one of the hippie communist produce markets will have them. *g* Thank you for the tip!

Mmmm, apples. When I was little, my elementary school used to take kids to this apple orchard once every year and we'd spend hours roaming and picking various apples. The Pink Lady apples were always my favorite because they were crisp and sweet, but too sweet. At the end of the day, the people working there would let everyone have cider (it's been years, but I've never come across a store-bought apple cider as good as the stuff right from the orchard) and let us take bags of what we picked home.

Anyway, dude, you just remined me of that. And when I transferred schools, I missed those trips so much, but good apples have always brought me a simple kind of joy because of those experiences.

Apple-picking! That sounds so darling and rustic. I don't think I've ever had a Pink Lady apple, but I can imagine what they'd taste like from your description.

And mmmm, fresh cider! That's magnificent. I'm glad I was able to remind you of such a charming memory, baby. *mwah*

I just finished making apple oatmeal muffins... :9

... Anyway...

I have friends... poor, simple friends, who are convinced that the only apples in the world are Red Delicious. They have never had any other kind of apples. Urg. I hate Red Delicious. I won't even bake or cook with them. I find them bland and grainy. :P I, myself, am an apple conniseur, and have tried my hardest to get them to try the new cross-bred apples like galas and jonagolds and braeburn and, my current favorites, fuji, but they refuse, saying they like their red delicious as they are the standard of apples, and will not try my delicious, crisp, sweet apples.

They are stupid.

mmmmmmm, apple oatmeal muffins. Those sound divine.

I do like a Red Delicious now and again, but finding the kind that snap between your teeth and are juicy without the skins being bitter is hard and chancy. Fujis are marvelous, man -- we had a big lot of them last year, and the whole kitchen smelled so sweet and autumnal! And the taste was absolutely divine. Oh, I want one NOW!

And they are stupid. I had an apple once that was threaded through with this vein of sweet, almost spicy red, and I swear I dream about that apple. I think it was from somebody's home orchard, but I don't remember who! So sad.

Fuji and Gala apples are good for eating, Rome apples are for cooking with. Not eating. Although I admit, when I was a kid, I used to love to eat the peels of Rome apples. Mom's apple cake recipe calls for 'em peeled, but I don't know why I liked the peels so much.

~an LJ wanderer

Peels are good sometimes! I can see how the Romas would be better for cooking -- they'd have nicer texture for that. Thank you for stopping by!

hmmm...one would start to suspect that you have quite the fascination with apples, what with this post and your fondness for apple-scented dish soap (yeah, don't think I don't remember that, missy).

wwwed wwwoma apples

Why do I picture this chickie sounding like Gussie Mausheimer?

mmmmmmm, green apple dishsoap. How I love it. And I love even more Joey and Justin smelling of it and maybe using it as lube. ahahahahhha!!

Why do I picture this chickie sounding like Gussie Mausheimer?

Oh my GOD you're so right! That's fucking brilliant! aaaaaaaaaahhahahahahhahaha!!

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