On 5/9/05, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Crabapple??? Well, don't get me started :). Oxford R-E-R Dictionary to > the rescue :). <snip>
Well, you likely looked it up by now, Boris, but crabapples are small apples that are maybe the size of or a bit bigger than a cherry. They are sour as hell, so you can't eat them fresh, but they are important for two things (that I'm aware of): 1) Gorgeous blossoms in spring, and, 2) They make the best damned jelly in the world. We used to have a crabapple tree in the backyard one of our houses in Montreal when I was a kid, and my mother made absolutely the bet jelly in the world from it. 3) Okay, said two things, but then I remembered that when we had that tree in our backyard, we once went out in the autumn with our old wrecked tennis rackets and we picked up the fallen apples and smashed them into the wall of our house. Made a huge mess on the wall and on our rackets, and we got in trouble from our moms when they saw what we did, but it was so much fun it was worth it... <vbg> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
