Page 3 | To think people would want free apples?

MsFannySqueers · 2022-09-29T13:53:47+00:00

We have one apple tree in our garden. Some years we get barely any apples but this year we have had a large amount of apples. They are large organic cooking apples with not a blemish on them. They are very tasty when cooked. I have peeled, chopped and frozen about 50 of them so far. I will use them over the coming winter for pies,crumbles, muffins etc. I have given some to one neighbour who wanted them. So to my AIBU. I then left a big pile of them in a container on my gatepost for days. Put a sign up for anyone to help themselves. How many have gone? Two! Two apples. I even left paper bags out to put them in! So! YABU People can’t be bothered with all that faff, they are busy and haven’t got the time/additional ingredients to prepare and use apples even if they are free. Plus how can they afford to cook them! YANBU It’s free apples, a bit of preparation, a few added basic ingredients and you could have some tasty treats. The cost of cooking them will be somewhat offset by the fact they were free.

Chikapu · 29/09/2022 16:40

I wouldn't take any, cooked apple in crumbles/pies etc is gross.

Justcallmebebes · 29/09/2022 16:39

My neighnour has a table at his gatepost where he regularly puts bags of apples from his orchard. They fly off so not sure,why yours don't. Not helpful, sorry

eurochick · 29/09/2022 16:39

200degrees · 29/09/2022 15:50

I wouldn’t say I’m weird but I live in a city and wouldn’t be picking up loose food from the pavement - I don’t know where it’s been. I don’t know if it’s hygienic. I don’t know if it’s been tampered with. If it hasn’t been tampered with, a passer by could have coughed on it, a bird could have shat on it - it’s exposed to the elements isn’t it.

It's probably cleaner than the stuff in the supermarket. I once took a shortcut round the back of my local supermarket and the loading area had rats scurrying everywhere. And I used to live down a little mews that had the back entrances to shops including a local mini market. I used to see mice scurrying under the shutter to the storeroom. Supermarket produce is probably covered in rodent pee, etc. And has been handled by god knows who.

Olivetreebutter · 29/09/2022 16:35

We have so many apple trees in our village everyone is trying to give them to each other 😂 same in courgette growing season.

Idratherbepaddleboarding · 29/09/2022 16:33

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minimadgirl · 29/09/2022 16:32

I was surprised how few people take them. There's been a box of them out side my neighbour's house and none have gone. The only reason why I haven't took any is that my parents keep giving me them and I have a draw full of stewed apple in the freezer from last year.

My parents had the same problem with blackberries, they couldn't give them away even in tubs.

ZeroFuchsGiven · 29/09/2022 16:30

200degrees · 29/09/2022 15:57

Congratulations on missing the point. I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat food the random members of public could have messed with. Food left outside someone’s house isn’t hygienic.

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You are indeed weird lol

ZeroFuchsGiven · 29/09/2022 16:30

JohnsShirt · 29/09/2022 15:52

As opposed to the apples made in a sealed factory that you buy?

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😂

LubaLuca · 29/09/2022 16:27

200degrees · 29/09/2022 15:50

I wouldn’t say I’m weird but I live in a city and wouldn’t be picking up loose food from the pavement - I don’t know where it’s been. I don’t know if it’s hygienic. I don’t know if it’s been tampered with. If it hasn’t been tampered with, a passer by could have coughed on it, a bird could have shat on it - it’s exposed to the elements isn’t it.

Fucking hell, try not to think about how many hands/unsterile areas an apple in a supermarket will have passed through.

Do you seriously think that eating apples grown in a garden with no intervention (they literally just grow, no synthetic chemicals, mechanical processes, transportation or manhandling involved) are a risky food? I'm amazed that people think like this.

PlasticSheetingRTÉNews · 29/09/2022 16:26

200degrees · 29/09/2022 15:50

I wouldn’t say I’m weird but I live in a city and wouldn’t be picking up loose food from the pavement - I don’t know where it’s been. I don’t know if it’s hygienic. I don’t know if it’s been tampered with. If it hasn’t been tampered with, a passer by could have coughed on it, a bird could have shat on it - it’s exposed to the elements isn’t it.

I can’t believe this website is free 😂

Salome61 · 29/09/2022 16:26

I put some apples out, with bags, the other day and was pleased they all went.

I'd been upset a few weeks earlier to find my plums all over the road .... then saw the washing up bowl in the hedge. I'd driven over them as I drove out of my drive, fool!

Xmasbaby11 · 29/09/2022 16:04

I'd love some but it's not really an impulse thing to pick up some cooking apples, for a lot of people. You need to put it on local Facebook so people who are interested know to come and collect some. That's what people do around us and food disappears quick. As pp point out, cooking apples require cooking, and soon, so that rules out anyone who doesn't have the knowledge or time at the mo.

JohnsShirt · 29/09/2022 16:00

200degrees · 29/09/2022 15:57

Congratulations on missing the point. I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat food the random members of public could have messed with. Food left outside someone’s house isn’t hygienic.

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I honestly don't know where to go with this.
Please tell me you are joking?

AwkwardPaws27 · 29/09/2022 16:00

200degrees · 29/09/2022 15:50

I wouldn’t say I’m weird but I live in a city and wouldn’t be picking up loose food from the pavement - I don’t know where it’s been. I don’t know if it’s hygienic. I don’t know if it’s been tampered with. If it hasn’t been tampered with, a passer by could have coughed on it, a bird could have shat on it - it’s exposed to the elements isn’t it.

Apples come from trees. Birds roost in trees. Many of them may have been shat on...

And if you eat eggs, I have even more shocking news for you

JudgeRindersMinder · 29/09/2022 16:00

200degrees · 29/09/2022 15:50

I wouldn’t say I’m weird but I live in a city and wouldn’t be picking up loose food from the pavement - I don’t know where it’s been. I don’t know if it’s hygienic. I don’t know if it’s been tampered with. If it hasn’t been tampered with, a passer by could have coughed on it, a bird could have shat on it - it’s exposed to the elements isn’t it.

haven’t you heard of washing fruit?😂

warmeduppizza · 29/09/2022 15:59

If you lived near me, DH would forever be bringing them home from his walks and expecting me to bake something with them. I can’t stand baking 😅

200degrees · 29/09/2022 15:57

JohnsShirt · 29/09/2022 15:52

As opposed to the apples made in a sealed factory that you buy?

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Congratulations on missing the point. I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat food the random members of public could have messed with. Food left outside someone’s house isn’t hygienic.

FromageRouge · 29/09/2022 15:53

@JohnsShirt 😁

Boxowine · 29/09/2022 15:53

I would be delighted.

JohnsShirt · 29/09/2022 15:52

200degrees · 29/09/2022 15:50

I wouldn’t say I’m weird but I live in a city and wouldn’t be picking up loose food from the pavement - I don’t know where it’s been. I don’t know if it’s hygienic. I don’t know if it’s been tampered with. If it hasn’t been tampered with, a passer by could have coughed on it, a bird could have shat on it - it’s exposed to the elements isn’t it.

As opposed to the apples made in a sealed factory that you buy?

200degrees · 29/09/2022 15:50

I wouldn’t say I’m weird but I live in a city and wouldn’t be picking up loose food from the pavement - I don’t know where it’s been. I don’t know if it’s hygienic. I don’t know if it’s been tampered with. If it hasn’t been tampered with, a passer by could have coughed on it, a bird could have shat on it - it’s exposed to the elements isn’t it.

Rowthe · 29/09/2022 15:46

I've got a tree full of pears I need to pick.

Just havent found the time yet.

PlasticSheetingRTÉNews · 29/09/2022 15:46

Oh, and our very fancy local bakery barters for fruit! They exchange pastries and bread for all types of fresh fruit and veg.

You’d clean up on croissants with all your apples.

PlasticSheetingRTÉNews · 29/09/2022 15:43

I wish I lived near you!

There’s a house about a five minute drive from me that I pass most days. For the last week, they’ve had apples out with a sign saying
“Free Apples for our NEIGHBOURS”

”Neighbours” is indeed underlined and written in bold.

I keep debating with myself as to whether I count as a neighbour.

It just feels a bit Tubbs and Edward. Local apples for local people.

JohnsShirt · 29/09/2022 15:43

Stick a sign on saying they're 50p each and I bet they'll disappear.