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Gustav with my apples

I bought a bag of green apples back at the end of August when I first moved here.  I ate most of them.  The remaining two retreated to the back of my fruit drawer, behind newer and more appealing apples.  They waited, silently and patiently, for me to discover them nearly three months later.

And they look practically unchanged.

The only difference is they have acquired a certain clammy quality that warns me that they are mealy.  I can't stand mealy apples, but I like applesauce, so technically I could transform them into applesauce and thereby avoid any guilt that tossing them would incur.

Yet... somehow their longevity makes me uncomfortable.  Back in China, we would keep winter apples in the cold entryway.  They would shrivel up but remain edible.  Yet these apples show no signs of aging.  I know they're not organic (as in organically-grown), but are they organic (as in carbon-based)?

Perhaps I should return them to their drawer and wait until they rot, and avoid my quandary.