08/21/2026
Imagine!? A 2lb apple?!?!? That's wild! Whats even more wild is a man named Tom Brown! Hes from I believe North Carolina and in his retirement he would "hunt" for heritage apple varieties thought to be extinct! He found over 1,000 varieties and brought them back from extinction!
Now you may ask....why/how did so many varieties go extinct? Well, its something you wouldn't think of.....Prohibition!
Apples were not eaten like how we do today. They were mostly consumed as hard c***r! 🍺 So when Prohibition happened, a lot of the c***r companies went out of buisness, which then caused a lot of the apples varieties people used to make c***r went extinct.
Have you ever heard the phrase...."An apple a day keeps the doctor away?" Well that is an old Welsh saying from the 1800s that got used after Prohibition started and all the hard c***r companies had to rebrand their crops.
So next time you're eating an apple, which will be very soon since Apple Season is right around the corner, you'll have a few things to think about. 🍎😋🍏
