Avengers and apples

[pebblerocker]

Followed a link today to an article on the ubiquitous tastelessness of the Red Delicious apple. My Nana used to buy three Red Delicious apples every week to put in her fruit bowl, then throw away and replace them. She didn't eat them and I had to be pretty desperate for an apple to chew through the bitter skin of an apple at her house.

But fandom-relevantly, from the article: the Red Delicious was brought to prominence by the Stark Brothers' Nursery, and they called it the Stark Delicious. But before it got famous, it was called the Hawkeye.

Oh, also, the Stark Delicious was striped red and gold. The solid deep red was selected for later on.

There is a surprising amount of Avengers fanfic involving bananas (and not even in a dirty way). Iron Man and Hawkeye having their own apple varieties calls for fic too, don't you think?

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[rolls eyes at the stupidity of people] They're awful apples! As a kid I much preferred granny smiths. I have to say it's been years since I've seen one - yay for galas and braeburns and other more interesting apples.

[pebblerocker]

There seem to be a few new varieties coming out in the last couple of years. I liked the sweet, crunchy little Jazz apples and... what were those other ones I got... Pink Lady? They were nice too. I'm not so fond of Pacific Rose, they tend to be mushy and bruise easily. Gala and Braeburn and Granny Smiths are my favourites.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I can remember Stark apples from my Primary School together with a list of other names. This is the first time I hear from these after, say, 50 years:-)
I may be conservative but my most favourite is James Grieve. Unfortunately, our only treeis too old and it will have to be replaced. Guess with what...

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I wrote an Avengerfic 2 years ago, in which the Hawkeye/Delicious apple promoted by Stark Nurseries was featured. :^)

Core Values
http://archiveofourown.org/works/731619

[pebblerocker]

AUGH, I might have guessed you would have - what an opportunity for punning and obscure historical details! I bet reading through the list of apple varieties was fun, and you picked some good ones (Baldwin!)

I loved the apple expert, sworn to secrecy and completely out of his depth.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I did have a lot of procrastinating fun, hunting up apple variety names. :^)

The poor apple expert was a nervous wreck when he finally got to go home.

Oh, just remembered. A while back someone who'd read my fic told me that an article about Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow in Avengers) said if she was an apple she'd be a Northern Spy and they thought the article writer must have read my fic. :^)