Fair play in the cabbage competition
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Jerry Apps recalls a county fair vegetable judging and a lesson in honesty.
Jerry Apps shares a humorous but important lesson from a county fair cabbage competition, delivering a pun in "fair play."
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Fair play in the cabbage competition
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Jerry Apps shares a humorous but important lesson from a county fair cabbage competition, delivering a pun in "fair play."
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- Jerry Apps: I was judging vegetables at a fair.
I don't know, maybe it was the Adams County Fair.
I don't know which one it was.
And I'm judging this cabbage, and a beautiful cabbage, and I tip the cabbage over.
On the stem, it says 29, which means this kid bought this cabbage at the grocery store.
[laughing] And so, I had to reject it because he didn't grow it, obviously.
That did not go over well with the parents either, but they knew that they had been caught.
So they really didn't say very much.
But the kid really caught it because you just don't do that.
That's one of the things that's learned the hard way.
The judge pointing out to this youngster, cheating is not a part of what we do.
You gotta be honest.
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