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"Apples and Bananas" or "Oopples and Boo-noo-noos" [1] is a traditional [2] North American children's song that plays with the vowels of words. The first verse usually begins unaltered: I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas.
John McIntosh (August 15, 1777 – c. 1845) was a Scottish-Canadian farmer and fruit breeder, credited with discovering the McIntosh Red apple. Through the apple, his surname is the eponym of the Macintosh (or Mac) computers and operating systems by Apple Inc.
Pisang goreng, bananas fried with batter, is a popular street food in Southeast Asia. [117] Bananas feature in Philippine cuisine, with desserts like maruya banana fritters. [118] Bananas can be made into fruit preserves. [119] Banana chips are a snack produced from sliced and fried bananas, such as in Kerala. [120]
An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus spp., among them the domestic or orchard apple; Malus domestica). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found.
Along with apples and watermelons, bananas will float in a tub of water, according to The Banana Police, a website devoted to a children’s book of the same name by Katy Koontz.
Cavendish bananas are the fruits of one of a number of banana cultivars belonging to the Cavendish subgroup of the AAA banana cultivar group (triploid cultivars of Musa acuminata). The same term is also used to describe the plants on which the bananas grow.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ net worth was around $10.2 billion when he died in 2011. Some analysts estimate he’d be worth around $7 billion today. That’s a hefty chunk of change, but it’s ...
A large variety of fruits – fleshy (simple) fruits from apples to berries to watermelon; dry (simple) fruits including beans and rice and coconuts; aggregate fruits including strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, pawpaw; and multiple fruits such as pineapple, fig, mulberries – are commercially valuable as human food.