Post a picture or share a thought about fruit.
Believe it or not, our family's legacies are being carried down through fruit.
I'm going to represent both the Kennedy line, and my family lines (Apgar, McMillin and Caruthers) since my honey probably won't have time to post about this.
First, the Kennedy line.
Macintosh apples. John's favorite fruit, by far, is a good, crisp Macintosh apple, although he will eat
them really in any form. And he doesn't want any other kind of apple. Macintosh apples are Michigan through and through, and John has been eating one every day for as long as I've known him. In fact, while driving to work one morning in Dayton, he threw the core out his car window...and threw out his wedding ring too. And our boys have strong associations with Macintosh apples, as they remember their father chowing down on one every morning while driving them down to the train station in Auw. And almost missing the train.
The Apgar line.
I knew my father only for two short weeks before his unexpected death. However, I remember he had a cherry tree in the front yard of his Clearfield, Utah home, and when I was there, the fruit was ripe. We would sit playing games at night, eating an entire colander full of red cherries. And I can't neglect my love of cherries now that I spend each summer in the cherry capital of the world.
The McMillins.
I grew up with one fruit in my home, and one fruit only. Bananas. My granddad McMillin still eats a banana a day (and possibly more), and my mom eats bananas. I do believe bananas are the most perfect fruit. Easy to eat and full of all kinds of good stuff. In our family, I think that some family members purposely leave the bananas to turn brown because, as everybody knows, I will not eat any kind of banana that sports any colors but green or bright yellow, and consequently, brown bananas are only good for banana bread. My grandad on the other hand will eat a banana until it is almost black because, as he says, it's the sweetest.
Finally, the Caruthers.
I can attribute my taste for cantaloupe to the Caruthers, and it is one of the three food items that makes my list of "Three Foods I Would Want on a Desert Island". I can seriously eat an entire cantaloupe in one sitting. My grandad Caruthers would slice cantaloupes every evening, so that in the morning, the fruit was ready to go for breakfast. In fact, most breakfasts for the ten summers I spent with them were cantaloupe and bacon. And why not, I ask you? The second summer we lived in Pennsylvania, we ended up with more than 30 garden cantaloupes in our refrigerator. I finished off every one of them.
Ethan:
I won't eat bananas when they're black, but I don't mind a ripe banana! The banana tradition has definitely worked its way down to me. I love bananas, and anything banana flavored is automatically better. My favorite kind of juice when we lived in Poland? Banana. Favorite kind of crepe? Bananas and nutella. Delicious lunch? PB&J with a glass of milk and a banana on the side. OR, slice a banana and put it on bread with peanut butter and honey (or nutella). Completely amazing. Plus, Annie always comes up and wants some of my banana when I'm eating one. We'll split it where she gets one side (with her slimy bites because she has no teeth) and I get the other half, which is generally much cleaner. i'm all about those bananas!
Glo:
I love all kinds of fruit. My top three would have to be probably apples, pomegranates, and cranberries. Apples first because we always have them in the house and when I forget my water bottle in my school lunch, I can use my apple as a sweetener in between my usually salty main course and it's so juicy I don't get thirsty. Plus there are so many different kinds and they all taste super good. Except Red delicious, I mean those things are disgusting. Pomegranates next because I don't get them often, but when I do they are so good. It was between pomegranates or raspberries cause they are both fruit that I really like but can't get as often cause they're expensive and you can eat them super fast. But Pomegranates won cause honestly they're just a super epic fruit. The way you get pomegranate seeds is by breaking open the fruit and they are throughout the entire part of the fruit. The actual insides of the pomegranate aren't good but the seeds are delicious and there are SO MANY in one fruit. Lastly, cranberries. So on their own cranberries are really gross and I don't think I've ever actually eaten one, but cranberries in juice are literally the best thing ever. The biggest complaint I have about visiting my siblings, babysitting or visiting family is that they NEVER have enough juice. I mean honestly I drink so much juice. It's good with literally anything. Milk is meh, it's really good with rich sweet foods, but every other salty tasting food needs to be accompanied with juice or else it just doesn't taste right, and the best juice of all CranPomegranet. Cran------ is good, but CranPomegranet is by far the best. Anyway if juice was not a thing, I would only drink water and occasionally milk. Juice, especially that of the Cranberry, is like the 8th and most important food groups. There are only 7 food groups right? I have no idea, but add it to the list cause it's a NECESSITY! Anyway even when I'm a poor college student I will always have money for tithing, comics and juice.
Believe it or not, our family's legacies are being carried down through fruit.
I'm going to represent both the Kennedy line, and my family lines (Apgar, McMillin and Caruthers) since my honey probably won't have time to post about this.
First, the Kennedy line.
Macintosh apples. John's favorite fruit, by far, is a good, crisp Macintosh apple, although he will eat them really in any form. And he doesn't want any other kind of apple. Macintosh apples are Michigan through and through, and John has been eating one every day for as long as I've known him. In fact, while driving to work one morning in Dayton, he threw the core out his car window...and threw out his wedding ring too. And our boys have strong associations with Macintosh apples, as they remember their father chowing down on one every morning while driving them down to the train station in Auw. And almost missing the train.
The Apgar line.
The McMillins. I grew up with one fruit in my home, and one fruit only. Bananas. My granddad McMillin still eats a banana a day (and possibly more), and my mom eats bananas. I do believe bananas are the most perfect fruit. Easy to eat and full of all kinds of good stuff. In our family, I think that some family members purposely leave the bananas to turn brown because, as everybody knows, I will not eat any kind of banana that sports any colors but green or bright yellow, and consequently, brown bananas are only good for banana bread. My grandad on the other hand will eat a banana until it is almost black because, as he says, it's the sweetest.
Finally, the Caruthers.
I can attribute my taste for cantaloupe to the Caruthers, and it is one of the three food items that makes my list of "Three Foods I Would Want on a Desert Island". I can seriously eat an entire cantaloupe in one sitting. My grandad Caruthers would slice cantaloupes every evening, so that in the morning, the fruit was ready to go for breakfast. In fact, most breakfasts for the ten summers I spent with them were cantaloupe and bacon. And why not, I ask you? The second summer we lived in Pennsylvania, we ended up with more than 30 garden cantaloupes in our refrigerator. I finished off every one of them.Ethan:
I won't eat bananas when they're black, but I don't mind a ripe banana! The banana tradition has definitely worked its way down to me. I love bananas, and anything banana flavored is automatically better. My favorite kind of juice when we lived in Poland? Banana. Favorite kind of crepe? Bananas and nutella. Delicious lunch? PB&J with a glass of milk and a banana on the side. OR, slice a banana and put it on bread with peanut butter and honey (or nutella). Completely amazing. Plus, Annie always comes up and wants some of my banana when I'm eating one. We'll split it where she gets one side (with her slimy bites because she has no teeth) and I get the other half, which is generally much cleaner. i'm all about those bananas!
Glo:
I love all kinds of fruit. My top three would have to be probably apples, pomegranates, and cranberries. Apples first because we always have them in the house and when I forget my water bottle in my school lunch, I can use my apple as a sweetener in between my usually salty main course and it's so juicy I don't get thirsty. Plus there are so many different kinds and they all taste super good. Except Red delicious, I mean those things are disgusting. Pomegranates next because I don't get them often, but when I do they are so good. It was between pomegranates or raspberries cause they are both fruit that I really like but can't get as often cause they're expensive and you can eat them super fast. But Pomegranates won cause honestly they're just a super epic fruit. The way you get pomegranate seeds is by breaking open the fruit and they are throughout the entire part of the fruit. The actual insides of the pomegranate aren't good but the seeds are delicious and there are SO MANY in one fruit. Lastly, cranberries. So on their own cranberries are really gross and I don't think I've ever actually eaten one, but cranberries in juice are literally the best thing ever. The biggest complaint I have about visiting my siblings, babysitting or visiting family is that they NEVER have enough juice. I mean honestly I drink so much juice. It's good with literally anything. Milk is meh, it's really good with rich sweet foods, but every other salty tasting food needs to be accompanied with juice or else it just doesn't taste right, and the best juice of all CranPomegranet. Cran------ is good, but CranPomegranet is by far the best. Anyway if juice was not a thing, I would only drink water and occasionally milk. Juice, especially that of the Cranberry, is like the 8th and most important food groups. There are only 7 food groups right? I have no idea, but add it to the list cause it's a NECESSITY! Anyway even when I'm a poor college student I will always have money for tithing, comics and juice.
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