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Have you ever heard of a Grapple?

I hadn’t.  I mean, I’ve heard of a grappling hook.  And I have heard of “grapple” as a verb: it’s something one does with a large monster or comic book villain. 

Apparently, now it is also a fruit.  A hybrid fruit.  Apparently when an apple and a grape love each other very very much…  well, you get the idea.  Somehow they (presumably evil scientists) have genetically engineered a fruit that is a grape-apple hybrid! 

Obviously more research is warranted.  So far my research has consisted of stumbling across them in the supermarket, yelling “OMG GRAPPLES” to my perplexed mom, and consuming two of these futuristic fruits (when I got home, not while I was still standing in the produce section).  Now, beyond the concept, they are not so terribly exciting.  But they are quite tasty.  And they smell super grapey!  I could just sit there with one and inhale for a good 5 minutes.  And I did.  At work.  They’re used to me.

Anyway, they look like apples, smell like grapes, and have an extremely pleasant taste that fuses the two flavors quite elegantly.

I can’t wait for them to do this to other fruits!  I mean, hello, strawberry-banana anyone?  How fantastic would that be?  Orange-raspberries?  The possibilities are endless.

It’s too bad that coconuts are not a fruit, otherwise we could fuse it with a pineapple and have a pina colada in fruit form.  Sadly, bacon is not a fruit either.  If bacon fusions became a reality, I would probably need to go lie down for a little while.

People, we are EATING THE FUTURE!  Today, grapples.  Tomorrow, flying cars!  I mean, you can’t eat flying cars, but you get the idea.

So, I have two questions…

**What hybrids would you want to see created?

**Does anyone have any moral objections to this?

Also, an edit:  much to my dismay, I have learned that they are probably pronounced “grape-ells.”  Oh well.