The Odd Fruit

Have you ever had the pleasure of biting into a delicious grapple, Dear Reader?  If so, what are your thoughts on this unusual, fragrant fruit?

A grapple is essentially an apple that looks and tastes like an apple but smells like a grape.  At first I thought it was pronounced gr(apple) but the packaging tells me it should really be called a (grape)le.  Personally, I think I prefer the first way better.

The first time I tasted a grapple was at work.  I sat down at my desk and immediately noticed the air around me was perfumed with a sweet odor.  I couldn't quite put my nose on what it was, however. 

I also noticed that someone had left a small apple next to my keyboard.  Hmmm.  I probably wouldn't eat it, since I didn't know where it had come from.  (My inner obsessive compulsive good deeder suggested I give it to a homeless person.)

The morning marched on.  What was that smell?  Had someone planted potpourri or sprayed air freshener in my general vicinity?  And if so, why?  My inner paranoid began to wonder if someone thought I was stinky.  (Just so you know, this is highly unlikely, Dear Reader, for I have a Virgo moon and rising which makes me quite hygienic.  Indeed, some days I've even been known to shower twice, if the fancy strikes me.)

Still, the sweet, ambrosial scent lingered on.

Wait a minute, was it coming from the apple?  It was!  Hey, this must be a grapple!  My friend had told me about these and must've placed it there on my desk as a treat.  I ran around, thrusting the fruit under my coworker's noses:  Smell it!  Go on, smell it! 

Everyone had a sniff and watched eagerly, prodding me to take a bite.  Eat it!  They demanded.  Do it!

"I can't eat it yet!"  I squealed.  After all, I'd been shoving the poor thing up everyone's nostrils for the past ten minutes.  Amid all the manhandling, my precious grapple had become rather skanky. 

Lovingly, I rinsed it and took a bite.  My verdict?  Well, it smelled like a grape but tasted like an apple and a grape.  And somehow it actually tasted as good as it smelled.  Candy like, but not.  It was as if my apple had been soaked overnight in grape crush soda, but not in a bad way, necessarily.

I'd like to try it in sangria.

I wish you could smell these luscious grapples through your computer screen, Dear Reader.  I suppose you'll just have to take my word for it. 

xoxo

Comments

[Weinerdog]

I have never heard of a Grapple!

Where do you get them?

[Jess]

I will have to Google these little treats! I wonder if I can buy them in Alabama... *sigh* Probably not.

[The Odd Broad]

I'm not sure...you might be able to!? I know they have them in California and New York, but I'm not sure about other states. I hope they have them in Alabama! :)

[Weinerdog]

I Heart Grapples!!!

I ate the last one on Sunday.............Yum-O!

[The Odd Broad]

I want to make grapple crisp! Grapple pie! Grapplesauce!

(Or at least grapple sangria)