applesauce
noun
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English offers a smorgasbord of words for nonsense, some of which are better known as words for food. We have baloney, spinach, rhubarb, and toffee, not to mention full of beans. And if none of those offerings are to your taste, you can say that's pure banana oil! Seemingly innocuous applesauce was first introduced to this menu back in the early 20th century. Back then, there may have been some bias against the real stuff. Poet Wallace Stevens’s turn-of-the-century description of a meal consisting of "some unnameable smathering of greasy fritters . . . and of course the inevictable applesauce" shows a lack of respect that must have been shared by others.
Examples of applesauce in a Sentence
Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
His grocery list was simple: bananas and applesauce.
—Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Step through the red-brick facade any morning of the week for a coffee and a nosh—and don’t miss out on the latkes served with applesauce and sour cream or the matzo ball soup.
—Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
Pair with pork and applesauce or with roti de boeuf.
Naturalitis.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Applesauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/applesauce. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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