For the past month I have seen increasing amounts of fruit stands opening up in the city. The vast majority of every one of those stands is covered in apples. Not one time before tonight though have I seen anyone buy an apple and the only reason I saw it tonight was because I was the one handing the money (a buck fifties worth for one apple!) over to buy it. I have tried my best to figure out what the apple madness is about and the explanation I've been given is that it is a tradtion to eat apples around Christmas and during the other months of the year they are quite scarce so the people have to get their apple fill while they can. Some of my friends have gone so far as to say that a basket of apples is a perfectly acceptable Christmas gift amongst family. Can you imagine your folks putting a bag of Granny Smith's finest under the Christmas tree? Ha! How bout them apples!
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