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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> If people refused to even taste them, either they had tasted them 
> before and didn't want to try again or, they looked ugly to them or, 
> they just didn't like the name. I'm betting that the biggest reason is 
> the name.


I was wondering why anyone would dislike the name "keepsake," but maybe 
it just sounds old-fashioned to people, and they're equating that with a 
softer texture (with so many of the newer varieties - at least, that I 
find in the grocery store - being very crisp, almost hard).

But I don't see any reason why you couldn't invent your own unique name 
for any apple you sell. After all, how many people would buy orange 
roughy fish, in a grocery store or restaurant, if they were still known 
by their original name, slimehead?  :-)

Bill
Lincoln, NE

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