Althouse: At the Red Apple Café...

November 17, 2014

At the Red Apple Café...

... you can polish your style.

29 comments:

Ann Althouse said...: I took this picture because I thought I saw the face of Jesus on it. Didn't show up in the picture too well. It's still nice as an apple,.; 11/17/14, 8:51 PM
Curious George said...: I see Moe Howard; 11/17/14, 9:00 PM
campy said...: Looks like a map of Greece to me.; 11/17/14, 9:03 PM
Jane the Actuary said...: Is it a honeycrisp?; 11/17/14, 9:08 PM
cold pizza said...: I can make out Alfred E. Neuman and/or George W. Bush.

Then I have to remind myself, Bushes don't grow on apples. -CP; 11/17/14, 9:10 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Yeah, honeycrisp.; 11/17/14, 9:10 PM
Insufficiently Sensitive said...: Or you can play Arthur Smith's 'Red Apple Rag', if you have a fiddle handy.; 11/17/14, 9:20 PM
Gahrie said...: Did you know that the apple trees that Johnny Appleseed planted were for cider apples and not eating apples?; 11/17/14, 9:24 PM
Quaestor said...: La pomme de Turin?; 11/17/14, 9:24 PM
Tim Wright said...: Speaking of apples, we just tried some JK Apple cider and apple perry at a family dinner. Big hit. My wife, sister in law and her mother really liked the apple pear cider. Thanks for the earlier post on JK cider. Now I just have to find out if "Scrumpy" ....a country name for cider in England....comes from the same root as scrumptious. Tim; 11/17/14, 9:41 PM
Quaestor said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/17/14, 9:47 PM
Wince said...: I see the Sea Hag from Popeye cartoons.; 11/17/14, 9:49 PM
Quaestor said...: Curious thing about apophenia, it's usually more apparent in photographs than it is to the unaided eye. Here's a case of the reverse.

Isn't it odd that the face of Jesus should be the most prolific manifestation seen on tortillas, given that no depiction of Christ as a specific person predates the 3rd century AD, and that Jesus never ate a Dorito? So now we have Jesus on a honeycrisp, yet nobody knows what Jesus looked like. So how do we decide it's Jesus and not just some nameless dude? Why not Saint Pius X on a grilled cheese sandwich? At least one could prove the resemblance from photographs of the mortal human. Or does Pius lack the celestial seniority?

(Yes, I deleted and reposted just to correct a minor typo. Call it apple polishing.); 11/17/14, 9:54 PM
Quaestor said...: I have never seen a potato that didn't resemble the late Gerald R.Ford.; 11/17/14, 9:57 PM
n.n said...: The apple is a rhetorical device.; 11/17/14, 10:06 PM
m stone said...: Isn't it odd that the face of Jesus should be the most prolific manifestation seen on tortillas...

Not if you consider that He said: "But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."

It's not the supposed image of Christ in the tortilla or apple that means anything. I'm betting it's the relentless power of that draw that occupies much of our subconscious.

Apparently, not even Ann is exempt.; 11/17/14, 10:11 PM
chillblaine said...: The apple in your eye is thus apprehended, the fruit of your toil yields.; 11/17/14, 11:02 PM
William said...: John Knox, the Scottish Presbyterian, was a galley slave on a French vessel for 19 months. Galley slaves had a life expectancy of two years so he was very fortunate that his release was negotiated when it was.....I wonder if his dour views were ameliorated or intensified by the experience.......I don't know much about galley ships. It was said that the larger vessels could be smelled from two miles away. The galley slaves had no sanitary facilities. They did their business where they sat. They generally perished from disease. No much room for advancement. John Knox must be the most successful ex galley slave in history.; 11/18/14, 12:32 AM
chickelit said...: chillblaine said...
The apple in your eye is thus apprehended, the fruit of your toil yields.

In Ferguson, ugliness or beauty is in the eyes of those who be Holder.; 11/18/14, 12:50 AM
Anonymous said...: You can get remover at your local drug store if you've become a little too Polish. It's smelly but it works really well. Lubisz tych jabłek?; 11/18/14, 1:57 AM
Anonymous said...: I took this picture because I thought I saw the face of Jesus on it.

The Son of God saying "bite me"???; 11/18/14, 2:08 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "(Yes, I deleted and reposted just to correct a minor typo. Call it apple polishing.)"

It's fine to do that. I usually take out the trace of the original comment to clean things up, but I left yours in so your comment about it would make sense.; 11/18/14, 4:43 AM
lonetown said...: I prefer to buy my apples where they don't put a label on every GD apple.; 11/18/14, 5:25 AM
campy said...: It's Red-y for Hillary!; 11/18/14, 6:31 AM
pm317 said...: this doctor is really good at sharing her experience with Obamacare; 11/18/14, 7:57 AM
Hagar said...: Looks like a Scottish golfer.; 11/18/14, 8:03 AM
pm317 said...: Maybe with the Obamacare so unusable, we have to go back to the apple to keep the doctor (and the politicians) away.

So you make the insurance so unaffordable that nobody uses it and nobody goes to the doctor, and nobody costs the system but the insurance companies still get their premiums. They even get premiums in the name of subsidies from people who can't afford insurance. How absurd is that!

Early in the nineties, when we used to talk about web traffic and server crashes, I used to joke, 'just hide the search button and then there will be no traffic.' See the absurdity. But that is exactly what seems to be going on with Obamacare.; 11/18/14, 8:03 AM
Wince said...: "Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number...

Or a baby's arm holding an apple!"; 11/18/14, 8:35 AM
Hagar said...: "Go home, rest, keep warm, and drink plenty of liquids until you feel better."

(No charge, and you are welcome.); 11/18/14, 9:18 AM