I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It’s funny - I don’t have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.

Parrilla uses a light, self-deprecating anecdote to puncture the cliché of “an apple a day” as a universal marker of health or normal eating. By recalling that she preferred green peppers as a child, she frames taste as idiosyncratic and enduring, suggesting that personal habits often resist cultural expectations. The closing turn—she still doesn’t eat an apple daily but does eat some weekly—adds a pragmatic note: preferences can soften over time without becoming strict rules. The quote’s charm lies in its everyday specificity, offering a small portrait of personality rather than a grand moral.