Has anyone had you try one of these yet?. They're grapples(pronounced grape+ls), and I'm not quite sure why the people who dreamt this up thought that an grape-flavored apple would just blow kids minds.
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Get Fit is marketing Grapples as a way to prevent childhood obesity because, apparently, once kids get a load of the awesomeness of Concord grape-flavored apples, they'll trade in their sugary snacks for healthy Grapples and lose all sorts of weight.
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...Umm... yeah. The world needs dreamers, so keep dreamin'.
A nice lady in the Psych dept. offered me one while I was working on their machine. The outside smells like artificial grape flavoring similar to that used in gum, popsicles, whatever else. The inside, well, was hard to tell for the outside. It was certainly normal-colored, but the smell was not as strong as the skin, but not yet normal either...
It didn't smell like a grape, nor an apple. Its tastes were like a night at the taste-bud demolition derby. Flavors collide and sideswipe each other until the result resembles nothing of what the original components were. Very juicy and refreshing, however, so long as you keep the apple away from your face while chewing.
Overall, I'd advise people to skip it unless you have a flair for adventure. Even then, buy just one.
And share.
With your whole office.
And whoever comes by.
And when I say share, I mean that mandatory "I'm not leaving your doorway until you take a slice of this, so you better go ahead. " share.
Posted by Jeffrey at February 8, 2005 2:34 PM