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  1. Between Trader Joe’s and Costco, I can keep myself in Fujis, Galas, Braeburns, and Honeycrisps. What more exotic kinds does Whole Food have?Report

    • Maribou in reply to Mike Schilling says:

      The delight of Whole Foods is how random the selection is. I mean, they have those 4 kinds nearly all the time, but then they have all these other weird varieties … last week it was Kanzi and Western Galaxy (or something like that) and a couple others. This week, who knows?

      Koru is the brass ring but it’s sought after and rarely available – I found a source for them when I was in Canada this fall and I literally squealed at the thought that I’d be eating Korus all week.

      But the real genius of Whole Foods is that they know how to store the apples. Unlike Safeway or Costco (I’ve never been to Trader Joe’s because we only have one and it’s a fur piece), THEY DON”T REFRIGERATE AND THEN ROOM TEMPERATURE THEIR APPLES. Nor do they select for looks over taste. Nothing mushy, nothing bland. And if the apples start to get bruised or weird, it’s a piece of the apple, or a natural rot that tastes kinda good, not a “blech argh wtf is this”?

      I grew up with fresh local apples – actually my grandma had an orchard-gone-wildish on the land around her house, with a few good trees left – so finding apples that actually taste like they came off a tree somewhere instead of being grown for maximum shippability and then treated terribly along the way was a revelation. I eat probably 10 or 12 apples a week now. Again. <3.Report

  2. Kim says:

    Bah! who the hell wants waxed apples.
    Goldrush for me (I had about a bushel and a half, and we’re through about half of it so far. They’ll last till February, still crunchy if a bit wrinkled on the outside — and that’s kept in the fridge).

    I get those local from the farmer’s market (We’re apple country around here — home of the Gold Delicious, as in every gold delicious looks different, not your Washington Specials).Report

  3. Aaron David says:

    We shall be in on the Eve, C is roasting lamb and she picked up at the same time several hundred dollars in good booze (McCallan, Basil Hayden, Redbreast) So! That is how that night will go.

    Xmas day we shall be venturing into Tod town, to spend the night with one of C. former coworkers who settled here. I have a few old high school buddies who live there, but alas we shall not see them this jaunt.

    And there shall be no apples for me!Report

  4. James K says:

    I’m about to fly up to Auckland, to spend Christmas with my family up there.Report

  5. dragonfrog says:

    We’re visiting Mr T’s folks this week. Shortly the guests for his mom’s festivus party will be arriving. Last night we were up cooking and laughing and drinking rum until about three.

    On boxing day we pack of for Saskatoon to visit Fledermaus’s & my folks.

    I’m quite enjoying just being along for the ride here. It’s nice visiting my folks and Fledermaus’s as well of course but somehow I can’t be as relaxed then.Report

  6. Mike Dwyer says:

    A busy few days on the docket. Christmas Eve with my family this afternoon, then I sit through the Methodist service at the wife’s church where everyone is very nice but it feels a bit like the Stepford Wives. I’ll also think about Catholic candlelight services of my youth when the guy in our parish with the amazing reading voice would read Luke 2:1 from a real scroll that someone in the church has crafted for that occasion.

    “Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world…”

    And I loved that part because it appealed to the budding historian in me. They would begin with a dark church and a single light on him while he read. Then ever-so-slowly candles would begin to alight across the church and it was…magical, not because the Lord was necessarily speaking to me (no religion) but just because I appreciated the theater of it.

    I will also remember the time I watched a kid in front of me put a huge booger on his candle and it sort of flared up and surprised him and made me laugh so hard I almost threw up.

    We’ll have a quiet Christmas with my in-laws tomorrow, then drive to Ohio on 12/26 to see the wife’s extended family for a couple of days. I love them to pieces and they have to be the collectively smartest group of people I know. Next week, two day work week!Report

  7. Jaybird says:

    Ah, yes. I meant to complain about this on Friday, but I forgot:

    I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT THEY’RE PUTTING THE VALENTINE’S DAY STUFF ON THE SHELVES ALREADYReport