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?

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[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. :^)