So basically like first you make the apples have sex then you have to raise the kids.

Right.

And then you've got to choose which kid you want to keep and all the rest of them you

just get rid of.

So that's when it becomes a little kind of, you know.

You want to dissociate it from humans at that point.

This is the sportful, it's not for foodies, it's for eaters, I'm Dan Pashman.

Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people.

You know when you go to the grocery store, you see strawberries, blueberries, oranges.

Most of the time it's one kind of each, right?

Yeah maybe there are like two types of oranges, they're red and green grapes.

The apples, apples are different.

Red delicious, golden delicious, granny smith, gala, Fuji, honey crisp.

The list goes on and on, so many apples.

When I was a kid we didn't have honey crisp, that's how old I am.

So where did that come from?

How are new apples developed?

And what's wrong with the old ones?

That's what we're going to learn about today.

It's a few years back, a new apple hit the market.

It was 20 years in the making and its launch was hyped as the biggest in apple history.

Yes, apple history is a thing.

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