To think people would want free apples?

[MsFannySqueers]

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.

haven’t you heard of washing fruit?😂

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

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

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.

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!

I can’t believe this website is free 😂

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.

😂

You are indeed weird lol

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.

There’s some out near us but I feel cheeky hair stopping and taking them! I have had some from a friend though.

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

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.

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

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

great contribution there...

A house a street from me had an avocado glut and posted on our suburb group. It was a race to get there to a grab one or two. They were all gone 17 minutes after she posted. 😂

Now every now and then someone asks how well her tree is doing.

And now I feel like apple crumble OP. We don't get those decent huge bramley apples where you only need to peel and chop a couple to get a decent dessert out. So I find it a faff as I have to peel a hefty amount. Not sure if it's just here, but my goodness the price of tinned apples here is horrendous.....

So I am also surprised that they haven't been claimed by now.

Thanks...

Apple glut! We got 20kg off our 2 x 5 foot trees this year.

ended up taking them to a community project which juices them. Kept tons, gave tons away. Tried putting some on a box by the front gate. We have high footfall past the house, but hardly any went at all.

prev year I’ve made them into muffins then frozen them etc.

try putting them in bags, people are more likely to pick up a bag :)

I did this and mine were all gone in hours!

Pretty much everyone in our village puts out apples, and they all go! I don't have an apple tree, so have to be quick! Our village is great for that kind of thing though. Also, I put all sorts of free stuff out the front, and it always goes. I have recently got rid of a chair, a lawnmower, a tree (dug it out!), various perennials, empty jars, ring binders, a hutch, a cat basket, etc etc etc

I wish people would stop gifting me corgette though, my fridge is bedlam with the things this time of year

Yep, apple sauce, apple crumbles, apple pies . . . the freezer is chock a block!

I would have taken some and made an apple pie 😋