âI have to stop it from going over the neighborâs wall,â he says. The chayote is a Cuban variety -- grown from a single fruit that he bought at a market and planted when a shoot began emerging from one end.
apple of discord - (classical mythology) a golden apple thrown into a banquet of the gods by Eris (goddess of discord--who had not been invited); the apple had `for the fairest' written on it and Hera and Athena and Aphrodite all claimed it; when Paris (prince of Troy) awarded it to Aphrodite it began a chain of events that led to the Trojan War
An apple of discord is a reference to the Golden Apple of Discord (Greek: Î¼á¿Î»Î¿Î½ Ïá¿Ï á¼ÏÎ¹Î´Î¿Ï) which, according to Greek mythology, the goddess Eris (Gr. á¼ÏÎ¹Ï, Strife) inscribed to the fairest and tossed in the midst of the festivities at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, thus sparking a vanity-fueled dispute between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite that eventually led to the Trojan War.