Finally, a treyfe fruit!
Just when you thought the list of foods not requiring kosher supervision was short enough, the fine folks in Washington State’s apple country have introduced a new fruit that isn’t kosher according to this month’s Star-K kashrut alerts.
Meet the grapple (”grape-L”), an unassuming Fuji apple that tastes like a Concord grape. My first thought was, “oh, it’s probably a grape thing, that’s why it isn’t kosher.” Well, the grapple is processed with “artificial flavors and fatty acids,” so I don’t think real, unkosher grape juice is the problem, just random offending additives.
In any case, I haven’t decided yet which is more absurd: a treyfe fruit, or the marketing geniuses who thought that apples should be more like grapes, that people would suddenly overcome their aversion to apples if they just had grape flavor, or that it was simply too time-consuming for folks to eat apples AND grapes.
Reminds me of the Onion’s report of new Frito-Lay product “Doritos Soft” — “exciting new partially digested version of the popular snack chip” … “‘cuz you’re too biz-zay for chewin’.”