Cultural aspects

Apples appear in many religious traditions, often as a mystical and forbidden fruit. One of the problems identifying apples in religion, mythology and folktales is that the word "apple" was used as a generic term for all fruit, other than berries but including nuts, as late as the 1600s.

Banana:

In the current world marketing system, bananas are grown in the tropics where hurricanes are not common - The depiction of a person slipping on a banana peel has been a staple of physical comedy for generations - Because of the stereotypical image of monkeys and apes eating bananas, they have been used for racist insults, such as throwing bananas at sports players of African descent - The poet Bashō is named after the Japanese word for a banana plant - Ray Comfort uses the banana as a proof of the existence of a God.