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(10,776 posts) Wed Nov 22, 2023, 09:49 PM Nov 2023

Crabapples - are they still a thing? [View all]

While doing my Thanksgiving shopping, I decided to see if the store had any spiced crabapples. Nope. Then it occurred to me that I haven't seen them in decades. Are they still being grown anywhere? I'll settled for canned ones - but not jelly: I want actual crabapples!

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Crabapples - are they still a thing? [View all] Retrograde Nov 2023 OP

Until your post, I hadn't thought of them in many years. Glorfindel Nov 2023 #1

I haven't seen them in a grocery for decades. They were always used as decoration sinkingfeeling Nov 2023 #2

We find them at our local farmers' market brer cat Nov 2023 #3

That's a little far for me! Retrograde Nov 2023 #4

I never cared for pickled crabapples, but they make the best applesauce ever. brer cat Nov 2023 #5

I have a crabapple tree. My niece Emile Nov 2023 #6

The only crabapples I've ever known were ones that PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2023 #7