On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:37:04 -0700, Cora Fuchs
wrote:

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:06:00 -0700 (PDT), gonzo
wrote:

Okay...

I'll give that a shot next time. I always thought that fruit rotted
from the outside in, though.

Hm. I suppose it _could_ have started from the stem end though.

Are you sure it was rot, and not frass? If the dores and nearby flesh
typo - for "dores" read "cores"
were full of black, grainy stuff, it was probably frass (poop) from
codling moth larvae. Our organically-grown apples have that all the
time. We just cut around it.