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"Mary Fisher" writes:
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| I like the flavour of apple pips, apricot kernels and the like.

It's a classic flavouring, after all. We are well adapted to eating
small quantities of cyanides, and they do little or no harm. Quite
a lot of our flavourings are poisonous in overdose.

| I do rather like this one, though, with the concept of Mary Fisher
| being a modern Huckleberry Finn ("There ain't gonna be no core").
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| I never read that book :-( I first ate an apple core when watching a
| fellow cyclist doing it. He became my husband.

They're interesting, because you discover just how wrong the stereotypes
of the southern USA are, and as a balance to egregious propaganda like
Uncle Tom's Cabin. They are also quite amusing.

| Core-eating isn't something I expect from others but I do wonder why people
| peel apples before eating them. a daughter in law does it for her chiildren
| because she says they won't like them. They've never had them :-)

It's loony, I agree. In most modern apples, the only flavour and
most of the nutrition is in the peel.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.