I live now in Houston Texas, totally unsuitable in climate and clay soil for growing apples. I grew up with a crabapple tree in the yard, and at almost 70, I still remember how they tasted. I loved them, but they are impossible to find now. We do grow lemons, grapefruit, grapes and blackberries but I do miss those crabapples.
I gotta be honest - I love these compilation videos because they’re great to fall asleep to. This channel is entertaining but also relaxing, so I listen both when I’m awake and just wanting to learn something new, and also when I’m unwinding and want to sleep. The compilation allows me the time it takes to really fall asleep. Basically I hear the first one in it’s entirety and then black out early in the second one. It’s just oddly comforting. Am I alone in this?
His voice reminds me of my 10th grade biology teacher. 😂 I say that as a compliment. He was very engaging and the only teacher I would be an aid for. The really funny thing, is me and THG are probably about the same age as my teacher was when he was teaching me. 😂😂
My grandfather had a tree in his yard that produce 3 different types of apple due to him graphing branches from different trees on to it. The apples were the 3 types my grandmother would use in her apple pies. Always found it amazing that one could grow 3 types on one tree. Thank you history guy for another great episode and a quick journey to the past.
That enzyme in the pineapple that can tenderize meat is a protease, an enzyme that break down protein. This is how it tenderizes meat: It's breaking down the proteins in the meat. It will also break down gelatin, another protein. If you want to put pineapple in a gelatin-based food like Jell-o, make sure you cook it first or the gelatin won't be able to set properly.
The best thing about driving from Orlando to Sebring FL was the smell of orange pollen. I live in Western NC. We have apple trees everywhere particularly in the Hendersonville area.
I picked up a jar of orange blossom honey several years back while driving back to WNC, it rates up there with locust and sour wood honey. Just remembered, there is an orchard down here in McDowell called the orchard at altapass that has some great heirloom apples.
Fun fact: if you come to denmark, we have an apple museum called "pometet" with real trees that you can go to in september i think, and you are allowed to pick the fallen fruit and taste it.... something like beyond 200+ different apples !
I grew up not enjoying history much but as I am becoming part of history I have learned to really appreciate listening to your channel. I like the way you present the information and the way you get so excited. You are truly a wonderful story teller. I don't even need to close my eyes and I am there.
32:00 I'm surprised you didn't add the fact that the banana flavoring we use today is actually based on the "Big Mike" banana before it was replace by the Cavendish. So while we can't eat a banana our grandparents used to eat, we can still taste what one tasted like, through the banana flavoring we still use.
I live a stone’s throw from Mexico. I consider myself very blessed to have other banana flavors. Honestly, the cavendish is sweeter than what I prefer. I can also get plantains. Just amazing!
Excellent and informative. We're trying to grow some apples on an exposed portion of land in SW Nova Scotia. Tis a slow process. And yes, pineapple is a wonderful pizza topping
36:22 Seeded bananas might be the answer to looking for new varieties that might be (or become, with some gene-fiddling) resistant to banana diseases? This was a great episode.
@@billwilson5341 good luck finding anything to eat then. prettym uch everything we eat has been genetically engineered in one fashion or another across history. modern methods just allow it to be faster and more reliable.
Thank you HG! We are all so lucky in our modern age to be able to have access to delicious fruits such as these. Your hard work made my day. Please more on other fruits.
There's a long forgotten apple orchard in Yosemite Valley. Today it's called "Day Use Parking." Day use only because when the apples are ripe the bears come for them at night. The orchard is well over 100 years old, so is probably some kind of antique variety. Whatever variety it is, the bears all love them. When the apples are ripe, this is the most dependable spot in the park to see a bear. We used to get a few beers and go there after work to watch them. One time a big bear was in a tree that had a brand new Mercedes parked under it. At the end of the branch over the Mercedes was a nice bunch of 6 apples. The bear slowly crawled out on the branch to get them when CRACK, the branch broke. He was a good 15 feet above the car. The bear landed on the roof of the Mercedes and flattened it down to the top of the seats. He bounced off the roof and landed on the ground with a thud. He stood up on all 4s, shook his head a couple of times, then he spotted the apples on the ground and ran over to them. Was pretty funny. We were all rolling on the ground.
The history and how plants change over the years is very interesting. How humans influence nature, whether positive or negative, has always fascinated me. And the names they gave these different fruits in the past can be pretty funny.
There’s an orchard near me that I love! More than a dozen different varieties are grown there. Unfortunately the prices are almost triple what I’d pay in a store but they’re worth it. My apple pies are loved since they have a few different varieties in each pie. I choose varieties for taste, for breaking down while cooking to give a good sauce and finally a variety that holds its shape for the beauty of sliced apples in the pie. Normally I suffer from seasonal depression so I’m really torn in the fall. So excited for fresh apples yet dreading winter.
Only through the Apple part so far and as usual absolutely incredible can't wait to watch the rest only 10 minutes in so far, ''the History Guy'' ICON‼️®™️☑️☑️
When I was a kid I always thought it was strange that my grandparents had pineapple shaped carvings on top of the hitching posts outside of their home in Norwich, Connecticut, but now it makes a lot more sense!
It probably meant "come in and be welcome and make yourself at home, we're being hospitable to our guests", or something of that sort. (In other words, "Be Our Guest.") (Just kidding. 😉) And I didn't know until tonight about the ones on St. Paul's. Very interesting information.
I started out thinking OH MAN I can't sit here and watch a 52 minute video I MEAN its about fruit whats interesting about fruit WELL 40 minutes in and its SO INTERESTING and informative I have to watch the rest
I live too high for citrus. Been thinking about trying to do a solar/boiler heated greenhouse for all the warm weather fruits I want. The wind is a problem though. I’d love to have a breadfruit tree. 😂
Our orange groves in Orlando were cultivated to have an especially thin skin. Very fragile Hard to ship but perfect for orange juice. You couldn't eat one without juice running down your elbows. We actually developed a special way to harvest them that is still a secret. I can still visit the Orange Grove but there are parking lot in Epcot now
I grew up in Orlando and Winter Park. Then here were orange, tangerine and grapefruit groves every where before the building booms. The air was full of the perfume of orange blossoms. We had a tangerine tree in our back yard and a grapefruit tree in another yard where we lived. Winter Park at one time had the largest grove of Temple oranges in the world.
I suppose I'm an amateur pomologist. Over the years, I've planted a number of apple seeds. Because I live in the southern US, fire blight has eradicated most of the seedlings (amazingly fast - a sapling can go from green to withered in a week). That's fine by me. I have two young trees now that haven't succumbed over several of our intensely hot and humid five month-long summers. Perhaps one day they'll fruit. If the result are "spitters," I'll try my hand at cider-making. If delectable apples result, I'll contact the local extension agent and invite them to make some scions.
John Chapman Johnny Appleseed 🍎 not only did he plant thousands of Apple trees. He also planted all of the Hemp grown in the country. Like in Kentucky, Kansas and Ohio still have hemp farms 🚜 University of Kentucky are growing it trying different strains for medicinal pleasure and textiles! So next time you see an apple 🍎 or its 420 take a bite and or a deep puff for Americas 🌎 first Bohemian Tender Foot Johnny Appleseed! 🤔
I lived in Boston for 40+ years and worked in the Theatre district which shared space with Chinatown. I loved the food and the markets that would spill out onto the sidewalk. So many different kinds of fruit and bananas you’d never see in “normal” markets. I especially liked the little red ones. Thank THG for all your work!
It makes sense to put pineapple on a pizza since tomatoes are also a fruit. I used to be the Distribution Coordinator for Del Monte Fresh Produce for the western US and Canada 😊. Only fully ripe pineapples come from Hawaii and those are flown into major cities while green pineapples are put on ships in reefer containers which come from Costa Rica.
Outstanding video history guy, this video is treasure house of historical facts about fruit crops. Enoromus volume of historical information you present before audience makes your videos special. These videos will certainly act as reference material to posterity.
In the early 1900s the area which became known as Pinellas County in Florida (St. Petersburg area) was one of the largest producers of pineapples. The county was not created until 1912.
I grew up in a neighborhood called Apple Valley. We had an Apple tree in our front yard, and the remnants of an apple orchard behind our back fence. Then the developers bought the rest of the orchard and put an Alouettes building behind my parents' house, and a trailer park on the other side of the neighborhood. My parents'latest tenants took the tree out if the front yard, too. Disappointing, but I guess it's another reason to let that town remain in my past.
We used to have a local variety of apple that was popular at my home in Sonoma county called the Gravenstein. unfortunately it too has nearly disappeared.
Hi THG. I enjoyed your video on Apples. I very much like the Granny Smith, and Stamin Winesap varieties. I also like your bow ties. As one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I get dressed up frequently, and I like the oversized Bow Tie, with a matching pocket handkerchief. Keep your great videos coming.
I cry whenever I hear someone say that all apples taste the same. Give me a good Pink Lady or Honey Crisp or one of the many types I am blessed to have at my local store. What I wouldn't give to try some of the rarer apples out there. :)
Not even counting the different coloured varieties, I don't know people can say that... And I'm not that big a Apple fan. That said, if I see a new-to-me apple at any store I'm in, I will buy and try.
REALLY enjoy these longer format episodes -- thanks! I'm lucky to live in Costa Rica where I grow bananas and pineapples in my yard. Absolutely true about "green" ripe oranges in the tropics -- even after 20 years here it's strange! Edit: pineapple goes into piña coladas NOT on pizza 🤢😉
@@GringoLoco1 That's awesome. I would freakin' love to just be able to go outside and snatch a banana or pineapple up whenever I like but alas, I live in Seattle so I'll have to be happy with apples and blackberries (which are more common around here than even the apples believe it or not). 🙂👍
@@snapdragon6601 Blackberries are common there and blueberries are common in Maine. I live in Colorado. Strawberries are probably more common here than either of the above berries are. Wild strawberries, tame strawberries, whatever kind. 🍓🍰🍓
A farmer who wanted to plant an orchard in the old days would go down to the cider mill with a shovel and scoop up a bushel of seeds. Then plant a few every 20 or 30 feet in a field. Whatever came up, went into the cider mill. If he got a real good apple, of exceptional flavor, color, size or keeping qualities he could graft the twigs onto other trees. This is where new varieties of apples came from. A farmer might grow a hundred random apple trees in an orchard and if he was lucky, get one real good tree. But since there were thousands of orchards eventually there were thousands of new apples. If you want to try your hand at growing apple trees you can use the seeds from grocery store apples. The seeds need to be frozen to germinate. So if you live in an area that does not freeze in winter, put the seeds in the freezer for a week or 2 before you plant them.
Not frozen just chilled. Clean the seeds, put in a refrigerator for a few weeks. The chill hours required for fruit trees to set fruit are the number of hours under 45F. I recall that hours under 32F don't count. This is for setting fruit not the seeds.
It is often noted that the long-used synthetic banana flavor doesn't taste much like the Cavendish banana. It is often claimed it tastes much more like the Big Mike.
I'm reading an article on the coming to America of the fig, it's quite a colorful history. I think worth looking into for an episode. For starters, it's a fruit that's not a fruit.
My favourite apple cultivar is the Fameuse (aka the "snow apple"). My great uncle had a few Fameuse trees on his land when I was a child, and it was well adapted to the winters of Southern Ontario. The flavour was like a rich, sweet cider - very different from commercial varieties. I've heard that the breed waned because it was less shelf-stable than competitors like Macintosh and Granny Smith, but one day, when I get a piece of my own land, one of my first tasks will be to plant a few of these vanishing beauties. Unrelated minor correction: The "gros" in "Gros Michele" is pronounced like "grow." Gross Michelle is that girl that no one wants to take to prom. -_^ Another fun fact: the "Fat Mike" was the source of artificial banana flavouring - which is why banana-flavored candy and such doesn't taste like Cavendish.
North Carolina has a history of apples. Wild trees from abandoned homestead dot the Smokey Mountains. My parents owned property in Canton NC and there was an apple tree there that was called a banana apple. A small yellow apple and it tasted much like a banana. My mother used to dry apples there to keep for the winter for cooking.
Reminds me of an apple that grew on my grandmother's farm in Southeastern Kentucky - it's right at the point where Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia are all together, the beginning of the Smokies. My grandmother called this variety a yellow June apple (I have no idea if that's the real name or not) because it ripened in late June and early July, not the autumn. It was small, yellowish -- somewhere between a Yellow Delicious and a Granny Smith in color, and a bit mealy, and frequently dotted with brown spots. They weren't great to eat fresh and you couldn't store them for any length of time, but they made the best fried apples ever, unlike any I've had since. My grandmother would fry them up and freeze them. Wonderful!
I really appreciate your telling the story of apples. When I was a kid >60 years ago we had gravenstiens and pippens and other apples that kept their texture and flavor without refrigeration. They didn't get mushy with age, rather they got more dense and a little drier but none the less tasty. I dispair about the quality of the apples for sale today. They are raised to look good on the shelf at the grocers but they are so dissapointing in taste and texture that you would probably put them down after one or two bites. Let's hope that your story will help wake up the public to the possibility of delicious rather than simply beautiful apples.
As a permaculture orchardist, I squealed with glee when I found this video. I have very few notes, other than wanting to say that the "Gros" in "Gros Michel" is pronounced, "grow."
30 years ago, I was west of Lima , OHIO near the Indiana border. There was a grove of apple trees and a historical marker noting Johnny Appleseed had planted this grove.
Trivia Alert: The term "Banana Republic" was coined by the American author O Henry in his book "Cabbages and Kings" in 1901. It referred to Honduras at that time. Additional Trivia Alert: Notice when his name, O Henry, is written there should be no period after the O as is usual with abbreviated names because the O does not stand for any particular name... it is just the letter O. People often put the period after the O but that is technically incorrect. More Trivia: The same thing applies to the S in Harry S Truman. Yet More Trivia: When O Henry wrote "Cabbages and Kings" he was holed up in Honduras on the run from the law.
Corporations wanted it easy for them. So they pushed the awful "Red Delicious" apple. I hated apples for this reason until I became an adult and found other varieties.
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience. You sound like me with milk. I used to not like milk when I was a kid. Then I grew up and found out that skim milk was not the only kind available. Or rather, I always knew that, but what I did *not* realize was that the different kinds of milk tasted so different. I actually *should* have got clued in as soon as my grandma told me that my uncle would only drink 2% milk. But I didn't. Now I sort of like milk, but I still will probably never love it very much. My parents didn't *have* to teach me at an early age that skim milk was what milk tasted like. (Watery. Tasteless, practically, but what taste it *did* have was not a *good* taste, or at least, not to me. And so on.) Apples. Well, you know what, upon rare occasions I've actually tasted a good Red Delicious apple. 🍎 It doesn't happen very often, but it happens. So it isn't necessarily a terrible breed. They're probably just sold so often and in such huge quantities that they tend to get packed wrong and shipped wrong and kept wrong and suchlike, and then that hurts their flavor. It's certainly not a kind of apple I've ever been exactly fond of, but it doesn't have to be terrible every time or in every case (of apples). Yellow Delicious are better. Granny Smith are better yet. Except when they also get poorly packed or shipped or poorly kept. Or picked when they're still green (as in not ripe). I prefer apples that are delicious *without* being called Delicious. (Some are falsely called Delicious when they are totally *not* so.) I like Figi and Gala. What are some of your favorites?
@@KittyStarlight I can't drink milk 🥛 at all, it's not that I'm lactose tolerance but I just don't like the taste I can drink milkshakes except chocolate and strawberry for some reason but I'm allergic to chocolate but I do like cheese, cream cheese,sourcream, butter,margarine, yogurt, whipped cream and I can't stand cottage cheese or limburger cheese and I love french vanilla creamer in my coffee ☕ decaf
@@garycarpenter2980 French vanilla creamer is definitely a good thing. ☺️ French vanilla cookies are far better though. 🍪 And also, French vanilla ice cream. 🍦
4:25 Up here in Washington state the story is that there was a prize for the best new apple variety but the label came off the box. The next year came another box of the same apples. The farmer near Wenatchee then got the prize money and a chain link fence surrounded the tree where the apples grew.
Yes, the English varieties are great, but I was able to grow only Ribston Pippin here in Northern Wisconsin. It's worth trying though; few other apples taste like a root vegetable! 🥕 🍎😊
The old town hall of my home town of Onondaga had instead of a pineapple or pinecone a bowling ball atop its spire. To this day no one knows why someone had placed it there except for maybe as a joke by the architect or contractor when it was constructed. When the town needed to straighten a road for reasons of safety and the town hall moved the bowling ball was carefully preserved in the Onondaga town Museum and some suggested that in place of the bowling ball a pinecone be placed upon the new building. As far as I know the spire is to this day unadorned and the bowling ball still in the museum.
The lady who babysat me from 6 weeks old through half-day kindergarten had a pear tree in her yard. I hadn't thought of this in years, but all of the kids and i thought it was so great to pick our own pear and eat it right off the tree. They were super sweet and I remember my face and hands being covered with pear juice while eating them. I hadn't thought of that in years! Good memories.
I toured the Dole cannery in 'Iwilei when it was running in the 1990s. It has since closed &been madd into a mall. The pineapple shaped water tower was torn down for "Safety" and the promise of rebuilding it has so far been reneged. I worked at the NCGR near Hilo in 1993/4 and saw their collection of about 230 pineapple varieties. Dole ceased production in 2008, ahead of their announced 2012 termination. Some smaller plantation are still growing in central Oahu.
I am retired to Costa Rica, and you mentioned that Quepos here was seriously hit by the banana blight in the 1940s. The oil palm replaced the banana plantations, and the oil is used for making cosmetics, crayons etc and is best not for consumption. Bananas are still produced on Costa Rica's Caribbean plains, and along with coffee and pineapples are the country's major export crops.
My granny had three trees that produced what she called Banana apples. Small hard green apples that actually tasted like a banana. The only trees like that I’ve ever seen . In another orchard further up the mountain they what they called Wolf River apples , a cooking apple much to sour to just eat . Red apples about the size of softballs . We used to fill 100 pound sacks with them and make pies & apple butter .
I think the color “orange” was usually called “scarlet” because there are several fruits that were referred to as “scarlet” that are definitely orange to a modern eye, like rowan berries, and some rose hips.
I live in Ontario Canada. In Simcoe Ontario, there is company who is run by Apple growers. Although as Ontario goes, they grow about 28% of the entire Ontario crop, but 98% of all apple sold in Ontario go through this facility. They big warehouse that totally sealed, they put apples in it, and remove oxygen and put in some inert gas and this keeps apples fresh, until the next harvest if needed.
Wait so you're telling me we live in the permanent aftermath where we eat the slightly worse bannans. They are so good though I wonder what the old ones were like.
@@teddyjones8550 You basically taste an approximation of it every time you taste banana flavoring. That flavoring doesn't taste familiar to us today because it was derived from the Gros Michel banana, not from the taste of the current Cavendish variety.
@@BTheBlindRef Is that true, though? After all, most "fruit flavored" candy doesn't taste like the fruit it is supposed to be. What are the odds they actually got bananas right, even for the previous type?
As American as apple pie is also as Australian as apple pie. Here in Sydney we are very proud of Granny Smith who developed the green Granny Smith apple whiuch is now the most common apple pie cooking apple around the word. Smith had an apple orchard here in Sydney and her namesake apple is reputed to be an accidental result of throwing an apple core out her kitchen window, but within two years she was selling the apples from a cart in central Sydney. She died before the fruit became an export success. Most people don't realize that there really was a real Granny Smith and she was a Sydney apple grower.
I'm very, very allergic to bananas. The one fruit I truly enjoy. It makes me wonder what terrible thing I did in a previous life to end up with this oddball irony. Probably was an unrepentant banana thief.
@@adoxartist1258 His history in Australia is just enough to tell you just exactly who and what and how he is. Yet the Creationists fall over every word that oozes from his lips. "Wow!" is right. thanks! have a terrific weekend
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I live now in Houston Texas, totally unsuitable in climate and clay soil for growing apples. I grew up with a crabapple tree in the yard, and at almost 70, I still remember how they tasted. I loved them, but they are impossible to find now. We do grow lemons, grapefruit, grapes and blackberries but I do miss those crabapples.
I got a crab apple tree in my backyard, good for pies and sauce. Also got rhubarb back there. Good for the same thing.
I gotta be honest - I love these compilation videos because they’re great to fall asleep to. This channel is entertaining but also relaxing, so I listen both when I’m awake and just wanting to learn something new, and also when I’m unwinding and want to sleep. The compilation allows me the time it takes to really fall asleep. Basically I hear the first one in it’s entirety and then black out early in the second one. It’s just oddly comforting. Am I alone in this?
His voice reminds me of my 10th grade biology teacher. 😂
I say that as a compliment. He was very engaging and the only teacher I would be an aid for.
The really funny thing, is me and THG are probably about the same age as my teacher was when he was teaching me. 😂😂
My grandfather had a tree in his yard that produce 3 different types of apple due to him graphing branches from different trees on to it. The apples were the 3 types my grandmother would use in her apple pies. Always found it amazing that one could grow 3 types on one tree. Thank you history guy for another great episode and a quick journey to the past.
*grafting!!!
Maybe he did graph them. ✏️✍️✏️
Draw them. ✍️✏️🌳🍎🍏🍎🌳
Just kidding. 😉
Did Grandma have three types of pies, or three types of apples in the same pie? 🤔
Just wondering. 🍎🍏🍎🥧🍰🍮🥟
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Three types in one pie. My mother still makes her pies the same way....so good...🤤
@@heartproblems2727 That actually sounds very, very good. ^__^
Happy Easter. 🥚🐣🥚
That enzyme in the pineapple that can tenderize meat is a protease, an enzyme that break down protein. This is how it tenderizes meat: It's breaking down the proteins in the meat. It will also break down gelatin, another protein. If you want to put pineapple in a gelatin-based food like Jell-o, make sure you cook it first or the gelatin won't be able to set properly.
The best thing about driving from Orlando to Sebring FL was the smell of orange pollen.
I live in Western NC. We have apple trees everywhere particularly in the Hendersonville area.
I picked up a jar of orange blossom honey several years back while driving back to WNC, it rates up there with locust and sour wood honey.
Just remembered, there is an orchard down here in McDowell called the orchard at altapass that has some great heirloom apples.
Isnt it amazing? If you ever get the chance, try visiting an apple growing area when they're in flower.I think they're even better than orange
Fun fact: if you come to denmark, we have an apple museum called "pometet" with real trees that you can go to in september i think, and you are allowed to pick the fallen fruit and taste it.... something like beyond 200+ different apples !
I want to go...!
Mmm. ^__^
Sounds very good.
Tasty. 😋
If I ever go there, I'm going in September.
Perhaps I will sometime.
'Tis Hans Christian Andersen country, after all. ^___^
I would do anything to experience that
That sounds like fun.......freebies
I grew up not enjoying history much but as I am becoming part of history I have learned to really appreciate listening to your channel. I like the way you present the information and the way you get so excited.
You are truly a wonderful story teller. I don't even need to close my eyes and I am there.
32:00 I'm surprised you didn't add the fact that the banana flavoring we use today is actually based on the "Big Mike" banana before it was replace by the Cavendish.
So while we can't eat a banana our grandparents used to eat, we can still taste what one tasted like, through the banana flavoring we still use.
I live a stone’s throw from Mexico. I consider myself very blessed to have other banana flavors. Honestly, the cavendish is sweeter than what I prefer. I can also get plantains. Just amazing!
Great Job, thanks! Living in SW Florida, I found this extremely enjoyable. We’re currently growing all mentioned except the apples.
Apples and Honeybees are how my Grandfather brought my mother's family through the Great Depression.
I'd love to hear more about your Grandfather. Quite a man.
Excellent and informative. We're trying to grow some apples on an exposed portion of land in SW Nova Scotia. Tis a slow process. And yes, pineapple is a wonderful pizza topping
How do you do it? The History Guy continues posting video that is informative, entertaining and prolific! Kudos to THG!!!
Great name. (Tom Bombadil)
36:22 Seeded bananas might be the answer to looking for new varieties that might be (or become, with some gene-fiddling) resistant to banana diseases? This was a great episode.
I prefer my fruit (and everything else) without "gene-fiddling".
@@billwilson5341 good luck finding anything to eat then. prettym uch everything we eat has been genetically engineered in one fashion or another across history. modern methods just allow it to be faster and more reliable.
Thank you HG! We are all so lucky in our modern age to be able to have access to delicious fruits such as these. Your hard work made my day.
Please more on other fruits.
There's a long forgotten apple orchard in Yosemite Valley. Today it's called "Day Use Parking." Day use only because when the apples are ripe the bears come for them at night. The orchard is well over 100 years old, so is probably some kind of antique variety. Whatever variety it is, the bears all love them.
When the apples are ripe, this is the most dependable spot in the park to see a bear. We used to get a few beers and go there after work to watch them. One time a big bear was in a tree that had a brand new Mercedes parked under it. At the end of the branch over the Mercedes was a nice bunch of 6 apples. The bear slowly crawled out on the branch to get them when CRACK, the branch broke. He was a good 15 feet above the car. The bear landed on the roof of the Mercedes and flattened it down to the top of the seats. He bounced off the roof and landed on the ground with a thud. He stood up on all 4s, shook his head a couple of times, then he spotted the apples on the ground and ran over to them. Was pretty funny. We were all rolling on the ground.
The history and how plants change over the years is very interesting. How humans influence nature, whether positive or negative, has always fascinated me.
And the names they gave these different fruits in the past can be pretty funny.
I smoke my evening spliff and watch these.....Thank you sir
There’s an orchard near me that I love! More than a dozen different varieties are grown there. Unfortunately the prices are almost triple what I’d pay in a store but they’re worth it. My apple pies are loved since they have a few different varieties in each pie. I choose varieties for taste, for breaking down while cooking to give a good sauce and finally a variety that holds its shape for the beauty of sliced apples in the pie. Normally I suffer from seasonal depression so I’m really torn in the fall. So excited for fresh apples yet dreading winter.
11:08 Also, the Spanish word for the orange fruit is naranja, and the word for the color is anaranjado.
Only through the Apple part so far and as usual absolutely incredible can't wait to watch the rest only 10 minutes in so far,
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You've got a amazing attention span. Do you tie your own shoes, too?
@@holeshothunter5544 That’s a good one ….troll‼️®️™️
When I was a kid I always thought it was strange that my grandparents had pineapple shaped carvings on top of the hitching posts outside of their home in Norwich, Connecticut, but now it makes a lot more sense!
It probably meant "come in and be welcome and make yourself at home, we're being hospitable to our guests", or something of that sort.
(In other words, "Be Our Guest.")
(Just kidding. 😉)
And I didn't know until tonight about the ones on St. Paul's.
Very interesting information.
I started out thinking OH MAN I can't sit here and watch a 52 minute video I MEAN its about fruit whats interesting about fruit WELL 40 minutes in and its SO INTERESTING and informative I have to watch the rest
I loved the picture of Duke Kahanamoku and Amelia Earhart! My home of Maui still produces the best pineapple today - the Maui Gold pineapple.
I live too high for citrus. Been thinking about trying to do a solar/boiler heated greenhouse for all the warm weather fruits I want. The wind is a problem though. I’d love to have a breadfruit tree. 😂
These videos are outstanding.
Great video! We need a part 2 with peaches, plums and grapes.
With or without the bottle?
Fascinating! Thank you, History Guy!
A Fruit #2 episode would be great, featuring peaches, blueberries, blackberries, and cherries. 😊
Our orange groves in Orlando were cultivated to have an especially thin skin. Very fragile Hard to ship but perfect for orange juice. You couldn't eat one without juice running down your elbows. We actually developed a special way to harvest them that is still a secret. I can still visit the Orange Grove but there are parking lot in Epcot now
I grew up in Orlando and Winter Park. Then here were orange, tangerine and grapefruit groves every where before the building booms. The air was full of the perfume of orange blossoms. We had a tangerine tree in our back yard and a grapefruit tree in another yard where we lived. Winter Park at one time had the largest grove of Temple oranges in the world.
As we traveled through Florida in the 1970s, I remember orange groves all over the place. Most of them are gone now. It's sad.
I suppose I'm an amateur pomologist. Over the years, I've planted a number of apple seeds. Because I live in the southern US, fire blight has eradicated most of the seedlings (amazingly fast - a sapling can go from green to withered in a week). That's fine by me. I have two young trees now that haven't succumbed over several of our intensely hot and humid five month-long summers. Perhaps one day they'll fruit. If the result are "spitters," I'll try my hand at cider-making. If delectable apples result, I'll contact the local extension agent and invite them to make some scions.
John Chapman Johnny Appleseed 🍎 not only did he plant thousands of Apple trees. He also planted all of the Hemp grown in the country. Like in Kentucky, Kansas and Ohio still have hemp farms 🚜 University of Kentucky are growing it trying different strains for medicinal pleasure and textiles! So next time you see an apple 🍎 or its 420 take a bite and or a deep puff for Americas 🌎 first Bohemian Tender Foot Johnny Appleseed! 🤔
Just came across your channel & love it! So interesting & informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. :-)
I lived in Boston for 40+ years and worked in the Theatre district which shared space with Chinatown. I loved the food and the markets that would spill out onto the sidewalk. So many different kinds of fruit and bananas you’d never see in “normal” markets. I especially liked the little red ones. Thank THG for all your work!
You remind me of Paul Harvey. I really enjoy your channel.
It makes sense to put pineapple on a pizza since tomatoes are also a fruit. I used to be the Distribution Coordinator for Del Monte Fresh Produce for the western US and Canada 😊. Only fully ripe pineapples come from Hawaii and those are flown into major cities while green pineapples are put on ships in reefer containers which come from Costa Rica.
Outstanding video history guy, this video is treasure house of historical facts about fruit crops. Enoromus volume of historical information you present before audience makes your videos special. These videos will certainly act as reference material to posterity.
In the early 1900s the area which became known as Pinellas County in Florida (St. Petersburg area) was one of the largest producers of pineapples. The county was not created until 1912.
nice compilation....fun to see you younger...will say your style today is more polished...aka. slower talk. Love your channel,
Keep it up !
I grew up in a neighborhood called Apple Valley. We had an Apple tree in our front yard, and the remnants of an apple orchard behind our back fence. Then the developers bought the rest of the orchard and put an Alouettes building behind my parents' house, and a trailer park on the other side of the neighborhood. My parents'latest tenants took the tree out if the front yard, too. Disappointing, but I guess it's another reason to let that town remain in my past.
We used to have a local variety of apple that was popular at my home in Sonoma county called the Gravenstein. unfortunately it too has nearly disappeared.
Hi THG. I enjoyed your video on Apples. I very much like the Granny Smith, and Stamin Winesap varieties. I also like your bow ties. As one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I get dressed up frequently, and I like the oversized Bow Tie, with a matching pocket handkerchief. Keep your great videos coming.
I think this is my favorite episode so far.
You just like fruits.
@@holeshothunter5544 Fair is fair.
I cry whenever I hear someone say that all apples taste the same. Give me a good Pink Lady or Honey Crisp or one of the many types I am blessed to have at my local store. What I wouldn't give to try some of the rarer apples out there. :)
Not even counting the different coloured varieties, I don't know people can say that... And I'm not that big a Apple fan.
That said, if I see a new-to-me apple at any store I'm in, I will buy and try.
arkansas black is a personal favorite. hard dry and tart, the perfect apple.
REALLY enjoy these longer format episodes -- thanks!
I'm lucky to live in Costa Rica where I grow bananas and pineapples in my yard. Absolutely true about "green" ripe oranges in the tropics -- even after 20 years here it's strange!
Edit: pineapple goes into piña coladas NOT on pizza 🤢😉
How do you know when they are ripe? By the size of the fruit, month of the year?
@@snapdragon6601 Size and month. I live at about 4500 feet so mine will start to turn a bit yellow the longer they are left on the trees
@@GringoLoco1 That's awesome. I would freakin' love to just be able to go outside and snatch a banana or pineapple up whenever I like but alas, I live in Seattle so I'll have to be happy with apples and blackberries (which are more common around here than even the apples believe it or not). 🙂👍
@@snapdragon6601 Blackberries are common there and blueberries are common in Maine.
I live in Colorado.
Strawberries are probably more common here than either of the above berries are.
Wild strawberries, tame strawberries, whatever kind. 🍓🍰🍓
I don't want any on my pizza 🍕 and no to anchovies and spinach
“Food in History” is an excellent book for anyone interested.
A farmer who wanted to plant an orchard in the old days would go down to the cider mill with a shovel and scoop up a bushel of seeds. Then plant a few every 20 or 30 feet in a field. Whatever came up, went into the cider mill. If he got a real good apple, of exceptional flavor, color, size or keeping qualities he could graft the twigs onto other trees. This is where new varieties of apples came from. A farmer might grow a hundred random apple trees in an orchard and if he was lucky, get one real good tree. But since there were thousands of orchards eventually there were thousands of new apples.
If you want to try your hand at growing apple trees you can use the seeds from grocery store apples. The seeds need to be frozen to germinate. So if you live in an area that does not freeze in winter, put the seeds in the freezer for a week or 2 before you plant them.
Not frozen just chilled. Clean the seeds, put in a refrigerator for a few weeks.
The chill hours required for fruit trees to set fruit are the number of hours under 45F.
I recall that hours under 32F don't count. This is for setting fruit not the seeds.
It is often noted that the long-used synthetic banana flavor doesn't taste much like the Cavendish banana. It is often claimed it tastes much more like the Big Mike.
In Mexico the word “Mermelada” still means jam in general.
What an excellent episode, so detailed really enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good collection. Thanks!
So awesome to hear the history of things we take for granted
Just wonderful, thank you!
As a former produce manager, and a trivia nut, I already knew about 95% of these tidbits. It was still a great watch though.
I'm reading an article on the coming to America of the fig, it's quite a colorful history. I think worth looking into for an episode. For starters, it's a fruit that's not a fruit.
Uh! You mean we had Johnny Appleseed wrong? Dadgummit! Next you'll be telling me that Paul Bunyan and Babe ran a BBQ stand.
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This collection is just what I need!
thank you
My favourite apple cultivar is the Fameuse (aka the "snow apple"). My great uncle had a few Fameuse trees on his land when I was a child, and it was well adapted to the winters of Southern Ontario. The flavour was like a rich, sweet cider - very different from commercial varieties. I've heard that the breed waned because it was less shelf-stable than competitors like Macintosh and Granny Smith, but one day, when I get a piece of my own land, one of my first tasks will be to plant a few of these vanishing beauties.
Unrelated minor correction: The "gros" in "Gros Michele" is pronounced like "grow." Gross Michelle is that girl that no one wants to take to prom. -_^ Another fun fact: the "Fat Mike" was the source of artificial banana flavouring - which is why banana-flavored candy and such doesn't taste like Cavendish.
Your content can border on brilliance.
It's interesting that oranges and carrots have their color changed for marketing purposes
This was fantastic. Thanks!!
PS I am enjoying all your videos.
North Carolina has a history of apples. Wild trees from abandoned homestead dot the Smokey Mountains. My parents owned property in Canton NC and there was an apple tree there that was called a banana apple. A small yellow apple and it tasted much like a banana. My mother used to dry apples there to keep for the winter for cooking.
Reminds me of an apple that grew on my grandmother's farm in Southeastern Kentucky - it's right at the point where Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia are all together, the beginning of the Smokies. My grandmother called this variety a yellow June apple (I have no idea if that's the real name or not) because it ripened in late June and early July, not the autumn. It was small, yellowish -- somewhere between a Yellow Delicious and a Granny Smith in color, and a bit mealy, and frequently dotted with brown spots. They weren't great to eat fresh and you couldn't store them for any length of time, but they made the best fried apples ever, unlike any I've had since. My grandmother would fry them up and freeze them. Wonderful!
I really appreciate your telling the story of apples. When I was a kid >60 years ago we had gravenstiens and pippens and other apples that kept their texture and flavor without refrigeration. They didn't get mushy with age, rather they got more dense and a little drier but none the less tasty. I dispair about the quality of the apples for sale today. They are raised to look good on the shelf at the grocers but they are so dissapointing in taste and texture that you would probably put them down after one or two bites. Let's hope that your story will help wake up the public to the possibility of delicious rather than simply beautiful apples.
As a permaculture orchardist, I squealed with glee when I found this video. I have very few notes, other than wanting to say that the "Gros" in "Gros Michel" is pronounced, "grow."
30 years ago, I was west of Lima , OHIO near the Indiana border.
There was a grove of apple trees and a historical marker noting Johnny Appleseed had planted this grove.
Man long class today.
We post these long-from compilations now and again.
Ten Blood oranges and three Lemons juiced mixed together and a little sugar served over ice is just heaven🙂😋😎
Trivia Alert: The term "Banana Republic" was coined by the American author O Henry in his book "Cabbages and Kings" in 1901. It referred to Honduras at that time. Additional Trivia Alert: Notice when his name, O Henry, is written there should be no period after the O as is usual with abbreviated names because the O does not stand for any particular name... it is just the letter O. People often put the period after the O but that is technically incorrect. More Trivia: The same thing applies to the S in Harry S Truman. Yet More Trivia: When O Henry wrote "Cabbages and Kings" he was holed up in Honduras on the run from the law.
Thank you for a fresh bite in this world of caos. Refreshing👍
* chaos
Corporations wanted it easy for them. So they pushed the awful "Red Delicious" apple. I hated apples for this reason until I became an adult and found other varieties.
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience.
You sound like me with milk.
I used to not like milk when I was a kid.
Then I grew up and found out that skim milk was not the only kind available.
Or rather, I always knew that, but what I did *not* realize was that the different kinds of milk tasted so different.
I actually *should* have got clued in as soon as my grandma told me that my uncle would only drink 2% milk.
But I didn't.
Now I sort of like milk, but I still will probably never love it very much.
My parents didn't *have* to teach me at an early age that skim milk was what milk tasted like. (Watery. Tasteless, practically, but what taste it *did* have was not a *good* taste, or at least, not to me. And so on.)
Apples. Well, you know what, upon rare occasions I've actually tasted a good Red Delicious apple. 🍎 It doesn't happen very often, but it happens.
So it isn't necessarily a terrible breed.
They're probably just sold so often and in such huge quantities that they tend to get packed wrong and shipped wrong and kept wrong and suchlike, and then that hurts their flavor.
It's certainly not a kind of apple I've ever been exactly fond of, but it doesn't have to be terrible every time or in every case (of apples).
Yellow Delicious are better.
Granny Smith are better yet.
Except when they also get poorly packed or shipped or poorly kept.
Or picked when they're still green (as in not ripe).
I prefer apples that are delicious *without* being called Delicious.
(Some are falsely called Delicious when they are totally *not* so.)
I like Figi and Gala.
What are some of your favorites?
I actually like apples enough that I would (sometimes) even eat Red Delicious in preference to having no apples at all.
But generally not very often.
I like the green 🍏 and the yellow 🟡 apples the red ♥️ is good but lots of people have different tastes
@@KittyStarlight I can't drink milk 🥛 at all, it's not that I'm lactose tolerance but I just don't like the taste I can drink milkshakes except chocolate and strawberry for some reason but I'm allergic to chocolate but I do like cheese, cream cheese,sourcream, butter,margarine, yogurt, whipped cream and I can't stand cottage cheese or limburger cheese and I love french vanilla creamer in my coffee ☕ decaf
@@garycarpenter2980 French vanilla creamer is definitely a good thing. ☺️
French vanilla cookies are far better though. 🍪
And also, French vanilla ice cream. 🍦
4:25 Up here in Washington state the story is that there was a prize for the best new apple variety but the label came off the box. The next year came another box of the same apples. The farmer near Wenatchee then got the prize money and a chain link fence surrounded the tree where the apples grew.
Always something interesting 👍
I'm lucky - have apples, oranges and avocados in my yard
That, my dear, is wealth. You are fortunate indeed!
Don’t brag
You must be in Cali…or close.😎
Very nice! I have…..sage brush…
You ARE Lucky! 🍀
Excellent video
Thank you
Yes, the English varieties are great, but I was able to grow only Ribston Pippin here in Northern Wisconsin. It's worth trying though; few other apples taste like a root vegetable! 🥕 🍎😊
Another great show
Thanks ❤
Hey Playboy,👋 nice haircut looking like William Shatner 😉 with your Ceasars hair style. I remember this video!
Anyway of getting a history of maze. They mentioned on the history channel drama the Vikings and it had me scratching my head.
The old town hall of my home town of Onondaga had instead of a pineapple or pinecone a bowling ball atop its spire. To this day no one knows why someone had placed it there except for maybe as a joke by the architect or contractor when it was constructed. When the town needed to straighten a road for reasons of safety and the town hall moved the bowling ball was carefully preserved in the Onondaga town Museum and some suggested that in place of the bowling ball a pinecone be placed upon the new building. As far as I know the spire is to this day unadorned and the bowling ball still in the museum.
We had an heirloom hard pear, but no apples when we inherited great grandad's farm.
The lady who babysat me from 6 weeks old through half-day kindergarten had a pear tree in her yard.
I hadn't thought of this in years, but all of the kids and i thought it was so great to pick our own pear and eat it right off the tree. They were super sweet and I remember my face and hands being covered with pear juice while eating them. I hadn't thought of that in years! Good memories.
ORANGE YOU GLAD I DIDN'T SAY BANANA
One of the best apples I've had were spy apples it's rare I find a tree used to have one in a field next to the house growing up
thanks
I toured the Dole cannery in 'Iwilei when it was running in the 1990s. It has since closed &been madd into a mall. The pineapple shaped water tower was torn down for "Safety" and the promise of rebuilding it has so far been reneged. I worked at the NCGR near Hilo in 1993/4 and saw their collection of about 230 pineapple varieties. Dole ceased production in 2008, ahead of their announced 2012 termination. Some smaller plantation are still growing in central Oahu.
I am retired to Costa Rica, and you mentioned that Quepos here was seriously hit by the banana blight in the 1940s. The oil palm replaced the banana plantations, and the oil is used for making cosmetics, crayons etc and is best not for consumption. Bananas are still produced on Costa Rica's Caribbean plains, and along with coffee and pineapples are the country's major export crops.
Much better than the ubiquitous THG podcasts.
My granny had three trees that produced what she called Banana apples. Small hard green apples that actually tasted like a banana. The only trees like that I’ve ever seen . In another orchard further up the mountain they what they called Wolf River apples , a cooking apple much to sour to just eat . Red apples about the size of softballs . We used to fill 100 pound sacks with them and make pies & apple butter .
Are you in North Carolina? My parents had a banana apple tree there. Small yellow apple that tasted like a banana.
@@d.c.jacobs6254 no we lived in Grayson county Va.
@@mausercal65 Interesting that you had a similar apple. Is that near NC?
@@d.c.jacobs6254 about 30 miles north of Sparta NC.
I think the color “orange” was usually called “scarlet” because there are several fruits that were referred to as “scarlet” that are definitely orange to a modern eye, like rowan berries, and some rose hips.
I live in Ontario Canada. In Simcoe Ontario, there is company who is run by Apple growers. Although as Ontario goes, they grow about 28% of the entire Ontario crop, but 98% of all apple sold in Ontario go through this facility. They big warehouse that totally sealed, they put apples in it, and remove oxygen and put in some inert gas and this keeps apples fresh, until the next harvest if needed.
I haven't seen this much fruit since I was float organizer for the Toronto Pride Parade.
Wait so you're telling me we live in the permanent aftermath where we eat the slightly worse bannans. They are so good though I wonder what the old ones were like.
Too bad we will never be able to taste the "better" banana.
"Worse' or "better" is relative. They are different. But, generally, the flavor of a Cavendish is not as bold as the Gross Michele.
@@teddyjones8550 You basically taste an approximation of it every time you taste banana flavoring. That flavoring doesn't taste familiar to us today because it was derived from the Gros Michel banana, not from the taste of the current Cavendish variety.
@@BTheBlindRef the more you know. Makes since though I tried Whataburgers Banana Pudding Shake and I thought this does not taste like a banana.
@@BTheBlindRef Is that true, though? After all, most "fruit flavored" candy doesn't taste like the fruit it is supposed to be. What are the odds they actually got bananas right, even for the previous type?
As American as apple pie is also as Australian as apple pie. Here in Sydney we are very proud of Granny Smith who developed the green Granny Smith apple whiuch is now the most common apple pie cooking apple around the word. Smith had an apple orchard here in Sydney and her namesake apple is reputed to be an accidental result of throwing an apple core out her kitchen window, but within two years she was selling the apples from a cart in central Sydney. She died before the fruit became an export success. Most people don't realize that there really was a real Granny Smith and she was a Sydney apple grower.
I have an ancestor in the family by the name of Orange White, 1823-1903, Whitehall, NY. BTW I believe he had a cousin named Pearl White.
Thank you.
Someone should share this brilliant video with *Gresham College". Top notch!
I'm very, very allergic to bananas. The one fruit I truly enjoy. It makes me wonder what terrible thing I did in a previous life to end up with this oddball irony. Probably was an unrepentant banana thief.
You should discuss that with Ray Comfort, seeing as how he thinks the banana is proof of his god.
I've never heard of anyone allergic to bananas before 😮 bummer.
I don’t know, what could you have done, adolf…
@@micheal49 Wow! I just looked him up. What an (ahem) interesting individual! 😄
@@adoxartist1258 His history in Australia is just enough to tell you just exactly who and what and how he is. Yet the Creationists fall over every word that oozes from his lips.
"Wow!" is right.
thanks! have a terrific weekend
It's not unusual to see an Apple tree out in the middle of the woods here. (SW Michigan, U.S.)
Cool.
And Ananas is Great on Pizza, especially when it is alongside hot Pepper and Tomato.
Nova, Ohio, be warned: i come!❤
Glad also you mentioned my favorite little study : Fibonacci sequence.