Braingle: 'Look! Grapples!' Brain Teaser

Look! Grapples!

Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.

Puzzle ID:	#28558
Fun:	(2.75)
Difficulty:	(2.25)
Category:	Trivia
Submitted By:	sugarnspice4u7
Corrected By:	medster99

My friend Brandon and I were sitting on a bench waiting for our friend. We started talking when a sticky situation came up. He told me he had tried this new type of apple called a "Grapple."
"It's a very cool apple that tastes like grapes!" he exclaimed, "I figured since I enjoyed them so much that I could plant the seeds from the grapple. Then, by midsummer, I can have instant grapples fresh from the tree!"
"But Brandon, it's not going to work out," I said.
"I know that you are going to tell me that I just don't have the green thumb," he explained, "but I still have that apple tree in my backyard from last summer, and it's still alive."
"You can try and plant the seeds, but you won't get grapples," I said.
Why?

Answer

Because grapples are not genetically engineered as most people tend to think.
Grapples are simply Fuji apples soaked in Concord grape juice for a few days to a week. If Brandon had planted the seeds, the tree would have produced Fuji apples, leaving him bewildered!
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Comments

luckythirteen Feb 10, 2006	yay! i'm the first to comment!!! i learned something new today. good teaser!
schatzy228 Feb 12, 2006	when he learns his lesson, will his respnse be akin to sour grapes?
sugarnspice4u7 Feb 12, 2006	thanks for teh awesome comments!!
mitzimesser Feb 13, 2006	Good to learn new things. I think I will try that sometime. Do you think that would work with regular apples?
sugarnspice4u7 Feb 13, 2006	actually you could but you wouldnt taste the grape flavor. If you bite into a red delious apple and then into a fuji apple you will see that the fuji has a flavorless fresh taste and can absorb flavors better. In markets avalible, Grapples are very expensive and many people have no idea what it contains. simply you can take a fuji apple and mimicate it!!!! If you plan to try it~ Remember that the longer soaked, the more flavor absorbed!!
OldChinaHand Feb 20, 2006	Cool, anyone for a grapple pie. Rumapple sound refreshing.
thimblenoggin Feb 28, 2006	Now that's trivia.
zonarita Mar 20, 2006	Super teaser!
FreddyPharkas Jun 04, 2006	I thought this was to do with how apple blossom pollinates. Most types of apple blossom cannot self pollinate, they have to be pollinated by a different type of apple pollen so the seed is a hybrid of 2 apple types. Apple trees are normally grown from cuttings so you get the apple type you want. The seeds grow a random hybrid, dependant on the pollen. Don't know if this applies to the Fuji apples or not.
scallio Oct 02, 2007	Interesting... learned something new. Had never heard of Grapples or soaking apples. Might just try it sometime, although I tend not to buy Fujis. I prefer Honeycrisps, Braeburns and Macintoshes.
Radioguy Oct 02, 2007	Nice one
guamgirl Oct 02, 2007	very good
lukeschett Oct 02, 2007	I could go for some grapples right now. It's fun to say.
sarah7 Oct 02, 2007	Great teaser, I'd never heard of grapples.. or fuji apples.. Sounds interesting though
rameherhard Oct 02, 2007	boooreing
bradon182001 Oct 02, 2007	Not sure what to think about this one. Needless to say, I didn't get it.
doehead Oct 02, 2007	Never heard of grapples
lmurray Oct 02, 2007	PRETTY WEAK, NOT INTERESTING, I GUESS LIKE SOMEONE ELSE SAID, JUST BORING.
coolguy5678 Oct 02, 2007	Well I never knew that there's such thing as a grapple so my answer was "because there's no such thing"...
Fasil Oct 02, 2007	Yeah I've seen these before. They smell like the candy grape, not actuall grapes. I took one sniff and walked away. It was pretty easy to tell that they were not genetically engineered.
Benay Oct 02, 2007	I have had Grapples and had no idea that they weren't genetically engineered to taste that way. Fun to learn something in a Teaser!
hradilv Oct 02, 2007	Terrible - not a Brain Teaser - just trivia, besides, I thought that Grapples were invented by you as a device for the "puzzle". Ugggg!
fredhornaday Oct 02, 2007	THANK YOU! I love it when I actually gain something from these teasers besides a headache! LOL!
UptheHill Oct 02, 2007	Actually laughed aloud on this one! Two words, NI CE!
2ndhandrose Oct 02, 2007	I have never heard of Grapples either. I like the sound of the Grapple Pie Tho & then ADD some rum & raisins to it . Xmas Grapple Pie. M-m-m-m Purple.
crazylady2 Oct 02, 2007	Sorry for not liking the teaser but really enjoyed all of the comments !!
emu77alu02 Oct 02, 2007	I had a Grapple once, and it tasted too much like a chemical grape flavor.
mondayschild59 Oct 02, 2007	I've never had one but they sound delicious. I got it right by the way. Thanks for a great teaser. I truely enjoyed it. Monday~
Montie317 Oct 02, 2007	Not a riddle/brain teaser. Silly trivia and not even a good one.
luckylefty Oct 02, 2007	I didn't know there were such things as grapples! I thought it would be impossible to grow because apples grow on trees and grapes grow on vines.
crystal2040379 Oct 02, 2007	I never heard of grapples... at least i learned something.
oddrey Oct 02, 2007	I have never heard of grapples. I would like to try one, they sound interesting.
Harmony_Girl Oct 02, 2007	Wow...ya got me!
xyphoid Oct 02, 2007	Well, that pretty much wasted 5 minutes of my life.
cheesepie Oct 02, 2007	Nice teaser I only got the anwser because my Grandfather spliced fruit trees (cutting the upper part of a fruit tree at a slant and cutting another tree's bottom half at a slant and tying them together) and my dad told me you can only graft trees not vines (grapes) or bushs (strawberrys)
cheesepie Oct 02, 2007	oh and hradilv if you look under the title you'll see it says "trivia" for category
AuthenticallyMe Oct 02, 2007	interesting...I learned something new today...keep more teasers like this coming; things like this make learning fun!
BikerDank Oct 02, 2007	Had a Grapple (pronounced like gray-pole) about 5 years ago...it was ok.
soccer_chick70 Oct 02, 2007	i thought the answer had something to do with fruit snacks, because i had no idea! boy do i feel dumb! thanks for the trivia!
JadeHeart511 Oct 02, 2007	Snap, I was really expecting a more creative answer. The literalness doesn't really make my brain think... but it's a fair answer.
_miss_glamorous Oct 02, 2007	no clue...
s_o_s Jan 02, 2008	How are we supposed to know that Grapples are just apples that have been soaked?? Is this something that exists in the US and the rest of us are left confused??