What would you do?

[fraidycat]

Say you have tons of apples sitting in your garage. And the tree is still absolutely loaded, and you're offering free apples to everyone you know.

Say you got stung by a wasp while picking said apples and your pinky finger huuuurts!

Say your husband goes to the grocery store and buys groceries.

Say that he... buys a freaking bag of apples! 😖😖😖

Do you:

a) strangle him

b) strangle him

c) strangle him

d) other (please explain below 😁)

 

Edit: This is really just a lighthearted thread. I'm not actually angry, or violent. Lol. Just a little gobsmacked.

But, you creative ladies might be able to help me come up with an appropriate "revenge". 😁😁

Edited September 8, 2021 by fraidycat

[Jean in Newcastle]

I would send him back to the grocery store with the bag of apples and the receipt. 

[fraidycat]

11 minutes ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

I would send him back to the grocery store with the bag of apples and the receipt. 

He already opened the bag. The damage is done. I wasn't home when he came home from shopping.

 

[KSera]

🤦‍♀️ If you usually cook, you could serve him apple-based meals three meals a day.

[Arcadia]

Applesauce, apple cider, Glühwein's or Glühmost. My teens love Trader Joe’s spiced apple cider. 

[wathe]

Mine did this with cucumbers.  We were up to our eyeballs with cucumbers from the garden.  And what did he buy at the grocery store?  More cucumbers....

[Laura Corin]

He's now in charge of getting rid of the home grown apples. I'm heading into applapocalypse here too - 8 trees.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Mmmm.  Apple butter. 

[Indigo Blue]

Such beautiful apple trees and apples, though! 

[Amira]

What kinds of apples are on your trees?

[BlsdMama]

😂 

 

i just really want to know what he was thinking? What did he say? That’sa lot of apples!

[pinball]

There’s thousands of apple varieties. And vast differences between types.

If my husband wanted a different variety, he’s an adult that can buy whatever he wants.

And people’s preferences vary…there are varieties people in my house love that other people don’t enjoy at all. You can’t force people to like something.

[Katy]

I’d make him take boxes of apples to every food bank in our county.

[Scarlett]

2 hours ago, BlsdMama said:

😂

 

i just really want to know what he was thinking? What did he say? That’sa lot of apples!

This! We need answers!

[marbel]

Yeah I am really wondering what he was thinking. Maybe he has a strong preference for another variety? He wants to make a pie and your apples are not good pie apples?  He's unaware of the thousands of apples you already have? 

There just must be something more to this story.

I am pretty sure if he had taken them back to the store they would have had to throw them away.  I think the food bank is a good option if they will take unpackaged food. 

Edited September 8, 2021 by marbel

[Miss Tick]

He's not alone. I remember this happening to a neighbor years ago.

[I talk to the trees]

7 hours ago, KSera said:

🤦‍♀️ If you usually cook, you could serve him apple-based meals three meals a day.

I like this. It could be like one long Iron Chef episode! 

[Faith-manor]

I would make him cook up a cauldron of applesauce. He won't make that mistake again! 😁

Edited September 8, 2021 by Faith-manor

[bibiche]

Strangle him. And then make my favorite apple cake. Scroll down for the recipe.

https://www.davidlebovitz.com/dorie-greenspan-french-apple-cake-recipe/

[fraidycat]

7 hours ago, wathe said:

Mine did this with cucumbers.  We were up to our eyeballs with cucumbers from the garden.  And what did he buy at the grocery store?  More cucumbers....

At least I'm not alone. Lol

7 hours ago, Laura Corin said:

He's now in charge of getting rid of the home grown apples. I'm heading into applapocalypse here too - 8 trees.

Eight! I can't even imagine. One tree is plenty!

7 hours ago, Amira said:

What kinds of apples are on your trees?

I'm not sure, but they are very delicious.  To me they taste very similar to a Granny Smith apple, but a little sweeter so they are a little less tart.

4 hours ago, BlsdMama said:

😂

 

i just really want to know what he was thinking? What did he say? That’sa lot of apples!

I don't think he really was thinking. He was making sure he had stuff for his and DS's lunches and he grabbed them out of habit.

He said "These are for lunches, those are for other things and we might not have enough." Lol - it really was just an honest brain fart, so he was jokingly making up reasons.

 

 

 

[Spryte]

Those are some beautiful apples!

I think I’d be making sure he helps with the processing (and clean up) of all those apples! And/or donations. He’d probably do that anyway.

And I’d be torturing him with bad apple jokes for the next 4 weeks or so. Oh, and maybe an apple under his pillow every night, one on his desk in the office every morning…

[Moonhawk]

Whenever he asks for something (water, screwdriver, toothpaste) always hand him an apple at the same time. This requires preplanning and an apron with large pockets, but will work especially well if you hide all the screwdrivers and toothpastes. 

Or you make your new phrase for finishing anything, "How do you like dem apples!" But say it kinda menacingly with eye contact and casually tossing an apple up and down (again, apron and pockets for preparation) so he understands that, yes, he likes dem apples. 

[fraidycat]

3 hours ago, marbel said:

Yeah I am really wondering what he was thinking. Maybe he has a strong preference for another variety? He wants to make a pie and your apples are not good pie apples?  He's unaware of the thousands of apples you already have? 

There just must be something more to this story.

I am pretty sure if he had taken them back to the store they would have had to throw them away.  I think the food bank is a good option if they will take unpackaged food. 

They apparently make really good pie. My aunt has already made a pie out of some of them and took it to my mom's house. I'm GF so I couldn't taste-test it.

He bought Granny Smith apples. Ours taste very, very similar; just a little sweeter. It was truly just an honest mistake made out of habit because he's the main grocery shopper.

I will check to see if our food bank will take some, or post them to our local free pages online. 

Edited September 8, 2021 by fraidycat

[mommyoffive]

Oh my dh would do the same thing so I was laughing out loud.  And he would do the exact thing just pick them up out of habit without even thinking of the apples on the trees.

[Laura Corin]

3 hours ago, fraidycat said:

 

Eight! I can't even imagine. One tree is plenty!

They are old and some don't bear well. For fun, I  have joined the Royal Horticultural Society for a year, as they will identify fruit for you. I just sent off the first samples - three beautiful golden cooking apples plus a twig. It's the tree that ripens first, with apples that bake perfectly into fluffy flesh that looks like sorbet.

[bibiche]

4 minutes ago, Laura Corin said:

They are old and some don't bear well. For fun, I  have joined the Royal Horticultural Society for a year, as they will identify fruit for you. I just sent off the first samples - three beautiful golden cooking apples plus a twig. It's the tree that ripens first, with apples that bake perfectly into fluffy flesh that looks like sorbet.

That sounds delicious. I hope you’ll let us know the variety when you find out!

[HS Mom in NC]

I say he has the choice of eating nothing but the purchased apples until they're all consumed or he gets tied to pole and everyone gets to throw each purchased apple at him. 

[Indigo Blue]

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Edited September 9, 2021 by Indigo Blue

[cintinative]

I just wanted to say I love the tags on this thread : "apples" and "revenge"  LOL.

[cintinative]

I know! Have your dh coordinate with a local girl scout/AHG troop to start a "let them eat (apple) cake" campaign and bring cakes/bread to EMTs, hospitals, fire fighters, nursing homes, etc.  

Edited September 8, 2021 by cintinative

[Laura Corin]

19 hours ago, bibiche said:

That sounds delicious. I hope you’ll let us know the variety when you find out!

Apparently it's an early Victorian variety called Lord Suffield. Makes me wonder how old the tree is - that's about the time the house was built.

https://www.keepers-nursery.co.uk/fruit-trees/apple/cooking/lord-suffield

[theelfqueen]

Like did he say "I really wanted some tart granny smiths" instead of your tree apples? I could see that. I still think it is ridiculous but I could see it ... I dont want THAT kind of apple. I want THIS kind of apple. 

[Arcadia]

20 hours ago, cintinative said:

I know! Have your dh coordinate with a local girl scout/AHG troop to start a "let them eat (apple) cake" campaign and bring cakes/bread to EMTs, hospitals, fire fighters, nursing homes, etc.  

My kids have done chocolate dipped apples because they like the Rocky Mountain ones

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/63150/chocolate-dipped-apples/

[bibiche]

5 hours ago, Laura Corin said:

Apparently it's an early Victorian variety called Lord Suffield. Makes me wonder how old the tree is - that's about the time the house was built.

https://www.keepers-nursery.co.uk/fruit-trees/apple/cooking/lord-suffield

So interesting! Thank you, Laura. 

[Ausmumof3]

By a dehydrator and get him on slicing duty.

[Laura Corin]

25 minutes ago, bibiche said:

So interesting! Thank you, Laura. 

Unfortunately  we will probably take it out. It bore 7 good fruit this year.

[Jean in Newcastle]

4 minutes ago, Laura Corin said:

Unfortunately  we will probably take it out. It bore 7 good fruit this year.

Just a curious rabbit trail, can someone (not necessarily you because you might not want to) take a cutting of an old tree like that and get a new vigorous tree from it?

[Laura Corin]

2 minutes ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

Just a curious rabbit trail, can someone (not necessarily you because you might not want to) take a cutting of an old tree like that and get a new vigorous tree from it?

I'm not sure if that works with old trees. One could maybe try growing from a pip, but It's not self-fertile, so I don't know if the seeds would come true. 

In our situation,  we have enough apple trees. At the back of my mind when I sent off half the crop for identification was reassuring myself that this wasn't some impossibly rare tree that needed protecting.  

[bibiche]

1 hour ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

Just a curious rabbit trail, can someone (not necessarily you because you might not want to) take a cutting of an old tree like that and get a new vigorous tree from it?

It’s difficult to root a tree from a cutting. Usually a cutting is grafted onto hardy rootstock to produce a new apple tree. There are a number of nurseries that sell scions for grafting if you want to try your hand at it. We’re thinking about trying this as a fun homeschooling project next spring.

This tree is, happily, still available in the UK. I haven’t found a US source for it yet.