At 11:58 PM 4/8/02, you wrote: >and our apples just >do not hold a candle to Washington State's. Really? My dad always talks about New York apples with great nostalgia - but its been about 45 years since he lived there. The apples I'd get in Western PA were top notch. Of course, that's at the farmer's markets, not at the grocery store. Jeanne