Grapples

[Stinky The Clown]

'Grapples. Looks like an apple. Tastes like a grape.'

And ya know what .... they do!

Last night we officially opened the summer menu season. We had cold shrimp, cold snow crab, fruit salad, and corn tortillas as a starch.

The fruit salad had mango, orange, strawberries, pineapple, and the grapples. A little almond syrup over it all. Some of Sparkly's Mother's Day Puilly Fusee.

Mmmmm.

[eleny]

1. I'm gonna look for these!

Are they a locally grown fruit? Hope I can find them here. Wouldn't they be great in a Waldorf salad!

[Stinky The Clown]

3. They're from Washington State

or maybe Oregon. You can probably get them where you are.

Here are the only two google hits for it:

This one is for a website for (I think) the HEB grocery chain.
http://www.holyshitake.com/archives/2004/09/get_your_grape_out_of_my_apple.html

And here's one from what appears to be a cooking blog, but with a pretty damn funny 'freeper' flavor to it. (I'll stay here, thanks!)
http://kalsey.com/2004/12/grapple/

on edite ..... Here's the website for them
http://grapplefruits.com/

[The empressof all]

2. Very artificial tasting

I've tried them and they taste like apples dipped in strong grape kool-aid. Go for the real thing--They are filled with artificial flavorings.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I just re-read the label .......

You're right ..... 'artificial grape flavor'

I tasted one quick sliver of it and put the rest in a fruit salad. If there was an artifical taste, I missed it on first munch and it was covered up on successive munches.

[calico1]

5. They just taste like apples to me,

just overpriced ones!

[eleny]

6. Well now, here's an idea

If they inject some artificial flavoring somehow, then so can we. We can soak some apple slices in grape juice or whatever kind of juice we want. Sort of like canning some spiced apples or pears.

How 'bout some cinammon, apple juice, lemon juice and butter flavoring. Apple pie slices. This has possibilities.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. I had one grapplpe left after my fwooot salad .....

and looked at it closely. I can't figure out how they get the flavor into 'em. No needle tacks on the skin. Through the core, maybe?

[eleny]

8. This article says it's a flavor bath

"Unlike other hybrid fruits, though, like say tangelos (the marriage of a mandarin orange and a grapefruit), the Grapple isn't really a fruit hybrid. It's more like a fruit bath. The apple is bathed in grape juice, merely masking the taste of the apple in favor of the grape."
http://www.cinweekly.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050202/LIFE/502020357/1068/archive