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  • November 2006 Issue
  • Apples with Logos

    Randy Valicoff has developed a technique to produce logos on unbagged apples.

    Yakima orchardist Randy Valicoff was at home watching Washington State University and the University of Washington battle it out in the Apple Cup when he had an idea. What if he produced apples with logos of the two football teams? The following year, 2003, he tried it out, placing stickers of the Cougar and Husky logos on Pink Lady apples just before they turned color. Just as he planned, the skin of the apples turned pink, but the logos under the stickers did not, creating pale yellow logos on the fruit. In 2004, Valicoff obtained a license to reproduce the […]

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