Grapple - say 'Grape-L'

I'd say "fraud."

Here's the story on this fake fruit.

I saw a package of what appeared to be apples in the organic produce section at my local Kroger yesterday.

I looked more closely: the fancy label read just as the title of this post does, and in smaller lettering underneath, it said:

"Looks like an apple. Tastes like a grape."

Hey, I thought, that sounds cool.

They figured out how to cross an apple and a grape, and created this new fruit.

I bought a package.

I mean, I've tried Pluots and Apriums, liking the former but not the latter.

Anyway, when I got home I opened the package of Grapples, and sniffed at them.

Boy, they sure smelled like grapes; more precisely, grape juice.

I bit into one: tasted like grape juice, though the texture and mouth-feel was exactly that of an apple.

Meanwhile, I looked more closely at the label, to see how they'd achieved this odd hybridization.

Whoa.

Under ingredients, it said: "Apples, Artificial Grape Flavor."

No wonder they tasted like grape juice: that's what was in them.

I went to the website, where I read the following:
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The Grapple is a Washington State Extra Fancy apple.

The apple is bathed through a patented process and in a few days the entire apple takes on the essence and mouth-watering taste of Concord grapes.

The combination is outstanding.
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Not.

But why stop there?

I've already begun soaking peaches in pineapple juice, and have applied for a patent on my secret process.

I'm gonna call the result a

"Peepple™."

Look for 'em soon at your local [un]Whole[y] Foods.