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9:18am on Thursday, 6th November, 2025:
Anecdote
One of the excursions we undertook in Astuirias, en route to a restaurant, was to a cider manufacturer. As I understand it, they take as many apples as they can get hold of, squash them in a pneumatic press, then leave them in chestnut barrels with a 10,000-litre capacity until they turn into cider.
Here's what part of the "take as many apples as they can get hold of" stage looks like:
The apples are too small to be satisfactory for eating, but that's irrelevant when it comes to squashing them into cider-producing mulch.
The tour guide pronounced apples as "ay-pells". This must be what comes of having a preponderance of books that assert "A is for apple".
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