Glinting greenly from the corners of the Beatles’ album covers is an apple. With its shiny, acid-coloured skin, it is recognisable as a Granny Smith. Once popular enough to have a Pantone paint colour named after them, today they are declining. Britons are eating other varieties—if they are eating apples at all.

甲壳虫乐队专辑封面的角落里有一个绿油油的苹果，鲜亮扎眼，很容易就能看出那是个澳洲青苹果。澳洲青苹果曾风靡一时，连潘通色卡（Pantone）的一款油漆都以它命名，但如今销量却在下降。现在英国人吃的是其他品种的苹果，当然，前提是他们还吃苹果。