Here's a "23 skidoo" broken down into three fives and an eight.

A banana parade from Wayside Tales, 1906.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to move forward in time.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to change the cargo.

An apple is an apple is an apple because "an apple has established rules in a world in which an apple is an apple" (Martin Odudukudu, Thinking and Learning).  Our image is from the Fruit Grower's Handbook by William Waring, 1851.

When you're at war, the whole world's cranberries(?).  Here are chef soldiers made of cranberries, from Cranberries: The National Cranberry Magazine, 1941.

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You know your orange vegetables, but do you know your vegetable oranges?  From Northrup King & Co.'s 1900 seed catalog.

From Die Muskete, 1927.

 Here's a Santa made of cranberries, from Cranberries: The National Cranberry Magazine, 1943.

Here's some plum craziness from 1912.

In the grand tradition of cannibalistic food mascots, here's a cranberry chef eating cranberry sauce.  From Cranberries: The National Cranberry Magazine, 1951.

Here is a memorial statue of a chef made of cranberries, from Cranberries: The National Cranberry Magazine, 1941.

From Green's Nursery Co.'s 1900 catalog.

The Southern Cross as celestial lemons, as seen from San Fernando.

You're aware of "the complex ways we distract ourselves from our inevitable demise" (Doug Bower, From Horseback to Desktop PC, 2007).  One of them is bobbing for apples while a witch peers through one's window.  Date uncertain.

"A high ball."  Date uncertain.

Here's a precursor to the wacky postcard craze of depicting giant fruits and vegetables on trucks and trains.  From Green's Nursery Co.'s 1900 catalog.

Here's a ghostly practical joker, date uncertain.

You've heard of those "starry apple orchards that bloomed perenially under the lime-light" (Willa Cather, Youth and the Bright Medusa).  Here's what a starry apple looks like, from the J. Van Lindley catalogue, 1899.