garden_variety_jess on Nostr: GM 🍎 Crazy food history story of the week: Johnny Appleseed - John Chapman was in ...
GM 🍎 Crazy food history story of the week: Johnny Appleseed - John Chapman was in actuality a businessman who moved with the frontier and planted apple trees for homesteaders who were required by law to plant fruit trees.
But since he was a very religious and legalistic man, he refused to graft trees and would only grow them from seed - as god intended, which produced nearly inedible apple fruits across the entire US because apples mutate every generation as a defense mechanism.
Within 30 years, all of John Chapman’s apple orchards were converted to cider breweries and the US had one of the largest cider industries in the world until the 1870s when WOMEN organized to burn down almost all the cider orchards. Then we imported beer from Germany and that is how America became a beer drinking country.
🤣 if you didn’t know, now you know. Cheers 🍻 #foodhistory #beer #appletrees #johnnyappleseed
But since he was a very religious and legalistic man, he refused to graft trees and would only grow them from seed - as god intended, which produced nearly inedible apple fruits across the entire US because apples mutate every generation as a defense mechanism.
Within 30 years, all of John Chapman’s apple orchards were converted to cider breweries and the US had one of the largest cider industries in the world until the 1870s when WOMEN organized to burn down almost all the cider orchards. Then we imported beer from Germany and that is how America became a beer drinking country.
🤣 if you didn’t know, now you know. Cheers 🍻 #foodhistory #beer #appletrees #johnnyappleseed