The Biggest Apple

Chisato Iwasaki 

The biggest apple ever, weighed 4lb 1oz. It was grown by Chisato Iwasaki in Hirosaki City during 2005. An apple of that size could definitely be mistaken for a pumpkin if it weren’t for the reddish hue.  This is the kind of problem Swift takes on  in Gulliver’s Travels. The Big Apple would just be just another piece of fruit in Brobdingnag but lethal if it fell on the head of a Lilliputians. Julia Child was an exceptionally tall celebrity chef who towered over her husband. Kenneth Galbraith, the economist, towered over his colleagues and Wilt Chamberlain, was 7'1."The Burj Khalifa in Dubai at 2717 feet is the tallest building in the world. The record for eating hotdogs is held by Joey Chestnut--66 hotdogs and buns in 12 minutes. Jeanne Calment of France who died in l997 lived to be 122 years old.

read "Sarcasm" by Francis Levy, HuffPost

and listen to "Mr. Big Stuff" by Jean Knight