What is this "enemy" business being bandied about all of a sudden? Surely the relationship in question is more akin to that of "friendly adversary" -- comparable to that of Holmes and Irene Adler as opposed to that of, say, Holmes and Milverton.
There's clearly a misunderstanding here. I was asked a direct question ("How do you like ['em] apples?"), to which I supplied an honest answer ("In deep dish pie, with ice cream.") while requesting an opinion on whether the asking of the question constituted an offer. That opinion was that no, it didn't ("This is not Faerie..."), thereby taking the matter of actual pie wholly off the table. And since there are no genuine enemies here, the question of chucking apples -- of whatever variety -- at an enemy surely does not arise.
Not that one could easily find a Red Delicious apple in Oregon nowadays, anyway; our growers have mostly moved on to more palatable hybrids. The most prominent supermarket varieties are probably Fuji and Gala, with a brisk trade in Honeycrisp at the higher end of the scale, and quite a few Granny Smiths in the mix (good for making applesauce).
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Date: 2018-06-26 04:08 pm (UTC)There's clearly a misunderstanding here. I was asked a direct question ("How do you like ['em] apples?"), to which I supplied an honest answer ("In deep dish pie, with ice cream.") while requesting an opinion on whether the asking of the question constituted an offer. That opinion was that no, it didn't ("This is not Faerie..."), thereby taking the matter of actual pie wholly off the table. And since there are no genuine enemies here, the question of chucking apples -- of whatever variety -- at an enemy surely does not arise.
Not that one could easily find a Red Delicious apple in Oregon nowadays, anyway; our growers have mostly moved on to more palatable hybrids. The most prominent supermarket varieties are probably Fuji and Gala, with a brisk trade in Honeycrisp at the higher end of the scale, and quite a few Granny Smiths in the mix (good for making applesauce).