chocolate apples 04 by Editorial Zone
Published Date: 11/03/08
There is nothing that reminds me of fall like chocolate apples. My parents were very strict about candy. They would never let us eat it. They said that it caused tooth rot. During Halloween, I was only allowed to have three pieces of chocolate candy a day. Anymore, my parents said, and all my teeth would fall out.
Chocolate apples, however, were the exception. We did not get to have them all the time, but nonetheless we would eat them every year. We would go to the fair where they would have caramel apples and chocolate apples. It was great. The air was crisp, there were rides and games, and each kid got to have one treat. My sister would always have cotton candy, but I would not waste my treat on such trivialities. I would always get a chocolate apple. One time I got a caramel apple instead, but it just did not compare. Nothing tastes like chocolate apples taste!
We lived in that same town until I was an adult. I remember taking one of my girlfriends to get chocolate apples at the fair. She was from a bigger city. The county fair was something totally new to her. The only chocolate apples that she ever had growing up were bought from the store. They were prepackaged, cold, and often stale. She had not known the joy of freshly dipped chocolate apples.
Chocolate apples, you see, must be done in the right way or there is no point. Unlike normal chocolate candies, chocolate apples cannot just sit there on the shelf. You need to start with a big, juicy, gourmet apple. Then you dip it straight into the chocolate. You give it just enough time to start to cool, and then you eat it. If I wait around for even a day, it is no good. The apple starts to get mealy and mushy, and the chocolate starts to get brittle. Only freshly dipped chocolate apples will do. If you can't get them fresh at the fair, there is no point in getting them at all.
I have had many chocolate fruits my life, but the chocolate apple is my favorite. Chocolate covered strawberries can be good, and chocolate cherries can be divine, but none of them can compare. It has to be chocolate covered apples or nothing, and you have to get them in a little town like the one I grew up in.
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