Random poll of the day

[kribu]

As I'm sitting here in the office, eating an apple, a question occurred to me.

[Poll #1351314]

Comments

[ayerf.livejournal.com]

...except when the core is all manky and horrid. They are in some apples, for some reason. I suspect pesticides or something.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Yes, quite! I eat the core practically always, except when I reach the core and it's suddenly all dark brown or icky. Fortunately that doesn't happen very often, so it doesn't really count.

I think there are some kinds where the core is actually just TOO hard and the thingies get stuck in my throat, but I tend not to eat those apples.

[ayerf.livejournal.com]

Some apples just don't seem to know that the core is meant to be edible. Just like some have horribly twiggy stalks... don't they realise that some poor hapless apple eaters sometimes forget to remove them?

Pear cores are another matter. Part of them is always far too woody to eat.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree about pear cores. Never eat those either. Also, they tend to be a lot more sour than the rest of the pear.

And the stalks... I eat them when they're nice and fleshy, but with the apples we get, that happens very seldom. If it's just a dry twig, then I generally just throw it away (unless I'm incredibly bored and have nothing else to do than chew on a small twig).

[ayerf.livejournal.com]

Not really much different to chewing on the end of a pencil, really. Exercise for the teeth!

[ihkelele.livejournal.com]

...OTOH, my mum does. She eats cores and peels (disregarding my protestations about pesticides not being washed off.) Quite handy when we are together, though.
And I use them in fruit preserves, if this can keep the blame off me :)))

[kribu.livejournal.com]

I'm more likely to discard the peels (than the cores) just for that reason, too.

It rather depends though - I'm more likely not to want to eat the peels if it's a shiny foreign apple with a shiny, flawless, skin, than when it's a local apple which has a funny shape and lots of little skin issues. Somehow I feel that if it looks so imperfect, then there might be a smaller chance of it having been poisoned too much!

[ihkelele.livejournal.com]

eeek for shiny-foreign-starlet-apple look! *g*
Yet now that I live in the country I'm *very* cautious with my neighbours' offers: they are kind people and all, but I'd swear they spray their trees with more drugs than learned farmers.
This might be born out of envy over their nice harvests of course, but, while they DO use chemicals, have strangely shaped yet edible fruits, and are full of -often teasing- advices, I'm keeping to soapy water and just a little verdigris in spring, and the resulting fruits are usually rotten, LOL

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Yes... I very much doubt anything store-bought will be quite pesticide-free these days.

Well, I suppose there are all those special products and all somewhere, but I don't actually know of a place here where I could get "clean" apples.

[camillo1978.livejournal.com]

My mum is a core devourer. I am not!

[kribu.livejournal.com]

But cores want devouring love too!

[camillo1978.livejournal.com]

Ick. Scaly texture and pips. I'll stick to loving the round bit ;-)

[harmony-bites.livejournal.com]

The peel is the good part though! Seriously, it has pectin, which helps prevent cancer. I just wash well.

Core though? I'm surprised anyone *does* eat them.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

I do eat the peels, unless the apple just looks ... well, fake! I don't quite trust them if they look too perfect. But as I mostly avoid those to start with, it's not too much of an issue.

It feels a bit silly not to eat the core, really. You've eaten the rest, why not go all the way? Also, often enough there's really no place right next to you where to throw it away, and going around with a sticky apple core in hand while trying to find a trash can is not my idea of fun... I'd much rather eat it!

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Not that I eat apples anymore, anyway, but the cores have always grossed me out. I love the (organic) peel, though. As long as it isn't waxed.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Waxed. Yes. Do not want!

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

I don't eat the apple either.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Pfft.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Till they come with chocolate...

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. The healthy option!

[firefly-124.livejournal.com]

Frankly, it never occurred to me that cores were edible any more than the seeds.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

It never occurred to me that the cores wouldn't be edible!

But I do suppose it may also have something to do with what sorts of apples one has grown up on... the local ones here tend to be small and softer, with smaller and softer cores, compared to the majority of imported ones. Also, if you don't eat the core, there often wouldn't be much left to eat!

[writermerrin.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait, now I'm curious. What about the seeds?

[kribu.livejournal.com]

I eat those too.

And the stalk, sometimes.

[ozymandiasrex.livejournal.com]

I never eat the core. Quite frankly, I tend to not even eat the entirety of the flesh. It seems that when I get it close to the core, I seem to just be finished with it. My mother used to say "there is plenty more apple there. Finish it."

But I never did.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Your mother was a wise woman.

:P

[ozymandiasrex.livejournal.com]

She was. I usually listened.

Usually. ;)

[pyjamapants.livejournal.com]

I don't eat the core, but I nibble it down to twig form.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Ahh, a step in the right direction at least!