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Oops... Grapples??
Tonight we stopped off at the grocery store for apples. Even after a quite fun sushi dinner with Matt's family, we were kind of peckish for some reason. Maybe it was the IKEA shopping spree or the jaunt to Barnes & Noble that threw us back into hunger mode. Never go to the grocery store hungry.
We bought hummus, lettuce, celery, carrot slices, golden delicious apples, two beefsteak tomatoes, and four grapples. Grapples? Grapples, you say? WTF are GRAPPLES?
Grapples are grape-flavored apples. We didn't look at the package before we purchased them. Matt was taking them out of the package after we were well done with Tivo'd American Idol and The Real Housewives of NJ (yea, I know - bring it betches) and said, "Oh, no. Honey?! Um, look!" and showed me the package.
I said, "We have to try one! Right now!" Then I smelled them. They smell like the grape-scented whiteboard pens or grape Jolly Ranchers - the scent that no natural grape has ever coughed up. When Matt cut the one in half, the smell was even stronger, but the taste was oddly just apple. Or our minds were making us taste apple because of the standard crunch of the pulp and wouldn't compute "grape" out of the process - ever.
They're a novelty item and not long for this world. The packaging states, "Ingredients: Apples, natural and artificial grape flavor." So, at least there's no added sugar or corn syrup, but still.
We bought hummus, lettuce, celery, carrot slices, golden delicious apples, two beefsteak tomatoes, and four grapples. Grapples? Grapples, you say? WTF are GRAPPLES?
Grapples are grape-flavored apples. We didn't look at the package before we purchased them. Matt was taking them out of the package after we were well done with Tivo'd American Idol and The Real Housewives of NJ (yea, I know - bring it betches) and said, "Oh, no. Honey?! Um, look!" and showed me the package.
I said, "We have to try one! Right now!" Then I smelled them. They smell like the grape-scented whiteboard pens or grape Jolly Ranchers - the scent that no natural grape has ever coughed up. When Matt cut the one in half, the smell was even stronger, but the taste was oddly just apple. Or our minds were making us taste apple because of the standard crunch of the pulp and wouldn't compute "grape" out of the process - ever.
They're a novelty item and not long for this world. The packaging states, "Ingredients: Apples, natural and artificial grape flavor." So, at least there's no added sugar or corn syrup, but still.