With that said, those of you familiar with Grapples are wondering how they can be environmentally friendly and those unfamiliar with Grapples have probably used the link above and are now also wondering how they can be environmentally friendly. Well, to answer that, I'm going to have to delve into a subject that I've been avoiding for quite some time now.
Produce.
Sure, I've talked about food a bunch. Mostly fast food, but that's 90% salt, sugar and preservatives, so that hardly falls into the same category. No, I'm talking about things that actually grow from plants. The reason I've avoided talking about it is that the subject of organic food is notoriously controversial. For those of you wanting to know my opinion on the subject will just have to wait until some time in June when that match-up comes up in the May Madness Bracket (You still have two weeks to fill one out!!!).
No, what I want to talk more about is buying locally. I'm sure you've heard the phrase before but basically it says that you should buy things that are produced in your city, state, or country because it's good for your local economy and saves on transportation-related environmental impacts. For example, today I had the choice of going to either a Kroger gas station or a Sunoco. I happen to know that Kroger is based out of Cincinnati and Sunoco is based out of Philadelphia so I chose Kroger because my money will be going towards Ohio's economy instead of Pennsylvania's. (Makes up for all the money I had to pay to Pennsylvania in tolls when I was driving to Philly earlier this year!)
Anyway, what does all this have to do with fruit hybrids? (Ooo, Apple should team up with Chevy and make next year's Volt really cool!) It's simple. If I only bought food locally, one thing I'd miss out on is tropical fruit. Ohio's good for growing things like apples and to a lesser degree grapes, but I've never seen a banana tree plantation along State Route 2. So, sure I could just eat banana flavored candy, but it's just not the same. Here's where fruit hybrids come into play.
All people need to start doing is flavoring their local fruits with exotic fruits they can't find in their area. So up here in the Midwest, we'd be eating local apples flavored like grapes (Grapples) or bananas (banapples) or pomegranates (pomegrapples) or kiwis (apkiwiples). The reverse would be true in other parts of the country. Californians would be eating apple flavored oranges (oranppgles), apple flavored kiwis (kiwapplies) and Floridians would eat apple flavored pomegranates (apppomlegranates). Get the picture? So get on this, weird fruit producers! And if you chose to use any of my names, don't forget to send royalty checks this way!
Figure 1. Granny Smith Apppomlegranates
Figure 1. Granny Smith Apppomlegranates
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