Hello!
A decade in the past, I wrote a narrative titled “Esopus Spitzenburg and the Newtown Pippin.” It’s about apples — these are the names of two cultivars that you simply’ve in all probability by no means heard of. There are plenty of random apple cultivars, however most of them by no means hit your shops. Some aren’t straightforward to retailer or transport, some rot rapidly, and a few simply style like you-know-what. Like most issues I’ve written about, I take into consideration this now and again however am not obsessive about it. So once I discover somebody who is obsessive, it’s a possibility to share.
Immediately is a kind of days. Earlier this week, I got here throughout AppleRankings.com, an apple (as within the fruit) score web site. The writer has tried greater than 50 completely different cultivars and given them a score on a 0 to 100 scale, with a breakdown for a couple of completely different classes like “style,” “magnificence,” and “price/availability.” And there are evaluations for every apple, too… however I’ve to warn you, plenty of the language our intrepid fruit critic makes use of is PG-13 and never acceptable for all audiences (together with Now I Know’s). That mentioned, listed below are a couple of that I appreciated and which can be shareable right here, from worst to greatest. (I hadn’t heard of any of those apple sorts. And if the textual content is simply too small, you possibly can click on/faucet every picture to go to the web page on the precise web site.)
There’s no evaluate for the Esopus Spitzenburg however there may be one for the Newtown Pippin — it’s his lowest-rated apple of the bunch — however the write-up is unquestionably not Now I Know-appropriate.
In any occasion, I hope you just like the apple evaluations greater than he favored the Arkansas Black apple.
Monday: Labor Day — took a while off.
Tuesday: Ohio’s Admission Downside: Why Ohio will be the forty eighth state to enter the union (regardless of getting into in 1803).
Wednesday: The Artwork Instructor With No Class: Don’t do that.
Thursday: The Brown Spot on Grand Central’s Ceiling: Additionally, an advert towards smoking.
Right here are some things it’s possible you’ll wish to take a look at over the weekend:
1) “I used to be raised in a utopian commune the place youngsters ran wild. Solely years later did I notice how a lot hazard got here with that freedom” (The Guardian, 20 minutes, August 2024). That is additionally PG-13 however in a Now I Know-friendly means (I believe).
2) “My Mom, the Gambler” (New Yorker, 24 minutes, July 2024). The subhead: “For a very long time, I didn’t know that what my mom was doing—taking part in the so-called Italian lottery—was unlawful. She actually didn’t seem like a felony.”
3) “The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Lifetime of Lee Maxwell” (5280 Journal, 20 minutes, August 2024). The subhead: “Ninety-four-year-old Lee Maxwell lives in Eaton [Colorado] and owns a Guinness-world-record-holding washer museum. When his spouse of 71 years lately died, Maxwell was left to ponder what his new life would seem like—and if anybody, moreover him, cares about his singular assortment.”
Have an awesome weekend!
Dan
