During an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Hillary Clinton joked about her love of New York apples. The presenter showed Clinton one of her publicly-released emails with "apples" in the subject line. In the email, first reported by syracuse.com in July 2015, Clinton asked an aide to order New York apples from their supplier.
Kimmel joked: "Now, this is about pot, right? This is how you order marijuana in code."
Clinton responded: "This is really top secret stuff."
But then Clinton explained why she started keeping apples in her office.
"You know, when I was senator from New York one of the great joys was advocating for all of the different businesses in New York," Clinton said. "And New York produces a lot of apples. So I always kept fresh apples in my office for people to take advantage of."
Clinton, clearly enjoying the exchange with Kimmel, insisted the email had nothing to do with marijuana.
"We hadn't gotten any apples for awhile, so I was wondering where the apples were," she said. "I am sure someone could make a lot out of that, but that was the case. It was about real apples – apples from New York."
Jim Allen, president of the New York Apple Association, told syracuse.com last year that he served as Clinton's apple supplier.
"We used to send apples down to her office on a regular basis, which she would proudly display on her desk," Allen said.
Allen said Clinton likes New York's McIntosh apples. He began sending a carton of about 120 apples to Clinton's Capitol Hill office every couple of months after she was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000.
Source: syracuse.com