It may seem rather ludicrous that a brand-new apple varietal was named after the Grammy-winning artist behind “What’s Your Fantasy,” but millennials are a unique cohort.

“I came from a family of farmers,” JP Pacello, owner of upstate New York’s Pacello Orchard, tells TODAY.com, adding that his grandfather first farmed corn, beans and wheat on the land that 37-year-old Pacello now grows apples on.

“I started planting trees and fell in love with it, started expanding the orchard and now we are up to about 200 acres of planted orchard with several fresh varieties,” Pacello says. “We don’t do any processing or juicing; it’s all fresh: Galas, Honeycrisp, Evercrisp and Ludacrisp.”

The last apple variety he mentioned is relatively new to consumers, having been offered to orchards in 2021 and S

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