MacIntosh Apple

Yes, this is what the computer was named after.

Yesterday when I was running errands with auntie, we went to a small fruit and veggie market that is near her place. They had several different types of apples that you don't normally see in our regular grocery store. One of them is the MacIntosh apple. The reason is that these bruise very easily and major store chains don't want to deal with handling and the loss when half of the apples arrive in bad shape. So, I jumped on these and tomorrow I will make an apple pie.

Wikipedia told me a little bit about this apple. It is famous for being a fine cooking apple and it makes wonderful applesauce.

Every McIntosh apple has a direct lineage to a single tree discovered in 1811 by John McIntosh on his farm in Dundela, a hamlet near Morrisburg, in Dundas County, Ontario, Canada. He discovered the tree as one of 20 apple seedlings while clearing the farm, which he had just purchased. He transplanted the seedlings, cultivated them, and only one of them was still alive by 1830. The surviving apple tree lived until 1906. The oldest surviving descendant also died on the 25th July, 2011.