Apples

As I was eating an apple the other day (from the 'apple festival' ^_^), a friend commented it was funny to see me just biting into the apple like that. She said that in Japan, it's very rare to just bite into apples. They peel them and cut them up. Apparently this is partly due to concern about the potential of pesticides in the skin.

Wow... and I always liked apples because they were so low-maintenance.

Incidentally, quite a few people here also do this with grapes, peeling each individual grape. When I hear of this, I get Diana Krall's voice in my head... 'peel me a grape...'