Bree's dad Big Steve, our official Apple Correspondent
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ZM's Bree and Clint podcast. It's our radio show, but wrapped up in a neat little package just for you. It's ZM's Bree and Clint podcast. Jeez, big Apple news at the moment, isn't there? Big Apple news. Go on. You've hooked me in. You know I'm a big Apple fan. Big news in the Apple world.
What exciting apple news is being discussed?
A one in a million apple with two distinctly different halves has popped up at a fruit shop in Christchurch. The owner of Sunshine Corner Market in Mighty Ho in Christchurch spotted the unusual-looking apple in a regular deliverer of Braeburn apples. It is... Oh, God, I hate Braeburn apples, but... The apple is dead centre, 50-50. 50% is red, 50% is green. I've never seen anything like it. It's called a chimera apple. It forms when the genetic mutation occurs.
What is a chimera apple and why is it unique?
And yeah, it's usually a perfect split. So the one that we're looking at, one half is perfectly shiny red, the other half is perfectly shiny yellow. How rare is this? One in a million. One in a million. But that's a good question. How rare is it? To find that out, I thought we would go live to our resident Apple expert and your resident father, Big Steve. Good afternoon, Big Steve.
G'day, Dad. Good afternoon, guys. How are you?
We're all right. Sorry to only get you on to talk about apples. I know you're more than just apples. It's a favourite subject of mine. Okay, good. He always says, he always says if he went on a quiz show, you know, where you had to have like a specialty subject, apples would be his. Then we've got the man for the job. This is the man, yep. Steve, I want to start. Sybil, have you seen the apple? Has news of the one in a million chimera apple made it across the Tasman to Australia yet?
No, not at this point. I haven't seen it yet.
When you guys see it, you'll claim it as yours. That's what you guys do. That's Australian, that apple. Of course. That's true blue, that apple. Have you ever had one of these apples before? You would have farmed more than a million apples in your lifetime. Have you ever seen one that's perfectly split down the middle, colour whites?
I haven't seen it perfectly 50-50, but I've seen two-thirds, one-third. Really? Yes, I've seen it quite a few times, to be honest. And obviously that varies a bit too. Sometimes it might have been 60-40, but exactly 50-50. I can't say I remember one, but I have seen... Oh, you wait, Dad. Oh, you wait.
I'm going to take a photo of this.
How rare is the chimera apple?
I'm going to send it to you. It's going to blow your apple, Steve. And Bree's looking at it now. You can see where the stick is, right, Bree? It's perfectly 50-50. The stem, it's literally the 50% is right on the stem.
Okay, wow.
What insights does Big Steve have about the chimera apple?
That's pretty cool.
Yeah. Pretty unusual, I've got to say. So the people of Sunshine Corner Market in Christchurch will be listening to this breakdown because this is big news, Steve, here in New Zealand. It's huge. It's actually front page news. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. What do you reckon they're looking at here? What do you reckon it's worth, this Chimera apple? If you had to put a dollar value on it, what do you think she's worth? I think it'd be priceless, wouldn't it? Well, if Braeburns are going for $4.99 a kilo, what's one of these worth? Yeah.
Oh, yeah, it'd have to be, what, $200 a kilo? I mean, it'd have to be, surely.
Oh, people would go nuts for this thing. $200 a kilo. That means this one apple's got to be worth at least $7. Might be the most expensive apple ever. Yeah.
It probably only weighs 300 grams. That's what I'm saying. So it's worth about 600 bucks.
Oh, okay. That's not how math works, but yeah. Wait, if it's $200 a kilo and this weighs 300 grams.
I'm thinking of the novelty values.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In all seriousness though. Yeah, yeah, so that's what I was thinking of. What are you guys talking about? They're using this apple as a tourist attraction. They're bringing people into the store. They need to put it in like, they need to like preserve it. So yes, they want to preserve it, Steve. They want to preserve it. What's your advice for them? How can they make this special Chimera one in a million apple last as long as possible?
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