Up in the garden, Hurricane Irene wreaked a bit of damage. She knocked over my corn, cut my tall sunflowers at the knees and bounced quite a few apples to the ground. Back a ways, the neighborhood had quite a few scattered apple trees. Most of them were crab, goldens and macs. They grew wild, weren't cared for and therefore were occupied with plenty of disfigurements, assorted bugs and worms. The apples, as I remember, were delicious, however you had to very carefully negotiate the worms. It was always a bad sign to take a delicious bite and see 1/2 a worm wiggling away. It happened countless times; you got used to it. Just spit it out and move to the next one. That was my approach. I get a kick out of that children's book title, How To Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell.Heck, we ate 'em raw!
Shame on Irene for doing that damage.
ReplyDeleteI must be spoiled, I never saw a worm in an apple.
I took some apple photos yesterday. The tree is all that is left from a little farm. I don't think I have ever seen an apple with worms in my area.
ReplyDeleteGive me a fallen unsprayed apple any day and I will negotiate around the worms.
ReplyDeleteI haven't sunk my teeth into a mac in years.
lol, i was always very careful to pick the apples without worms, still do to this day!
ReplyDeleteyou were a gourmet at such a tender age and have remained so.
ReplyDeletedans le jardin de mes grands-parents, j'ai vu souvent des vers dans les pommes, tout etait naturel, donc les vers pouvaient vivre, il fallait juste faire attention, car c'est pas tres bon, je prefere les pommes avec du miel
ReplyDeleteThe joke around here is that worms at least add a little protein to our meal.
ReplyDeleteBirdman, sometimes I start with a photo and then try to find ABC words to suit it. The flying nun was just a lucky shot, when no one was looking.
Sweet memories, yep just negotiate around the worms and not worry about it too much if you accidentally ate one.
ReplyDeleteMmm, mm, worms.
ReplyDeleteEwww.
Pretty gutsy, birdman!!
ReplyDeleteThere will be no negotiating around anything in my apples thank you very much, I like them totally free of inhabitants!
ReplyDeleteSo sorry about Irene.
ReplyDeleteI always like to read your stories!
Léia
oh yes. been there; eaten that... :)
ReplyDeletelol...I remember similar experiences growing up when would gather apples on the 'wild' trees. Good thing there were two big orchards in my home town where we could get worm-free apples and the best apple cider I've ever tasted.
ReplyDeleteI would probably belt out a high pitched girly scream if I found a worm in my apple.
ReplyDeleteeewww!!
ReplyDeleteyeah, we sometimes had them in radishes, so i never ate them in one bite; carefully biting one half off, not yet chewing, checking the other half... and spitting it all out if there would be even just a small hole in it..
We had an old apple tree in our yard in my childhood home. It produced some kind of green apple... I would eat them ---and even though Mama said that they would give me a tummy ache, I still loved those old green apples!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat storm did SO much damage --and now there's Lee... Gads!
Betsy
We had an abandoned orchard nearby when I was a kid and you are right - every apple had a little inhabitant!
ReplyDeleteSorry about your garden. I took a bite of a wild apple at the golf course this past weekend. A bit too sour for my taste. But there wasn't any extra protein at least!
ReplyDeleteBirdman, that is why they make commercial apple orchards. No apple squatters for me, thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind working my way around a worm in a nice clean apple. lol
ReplyDeleteI remember that book! I think I'll check it out for my kids. Sorry to hear your garden was damaged.
ReplyDeleteI am not one for noodles with my apples. Especially of the noodle moves.
ReplyDeleteMy brain is gradually getting back on Central time. I have a sister in the NJ suburbs of NYC who sent me pix of the flooding in her area. Disaster or not, I'm not going for the worms. You would as soon get me to eat fried liver.
ReplyDeleteWhew. Accidentally eating part of a worm in an apple. Way too graphic for queasy me.
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