What is a good grabber for a compare and contrast essay about apples and oranges?

Apples were essential in the expansion of the United States westward, but oranges are a more important crop now.

There’s also this

You can compare apples and oranges!

maybe something a little funnier?

just cause my teacher’s a freak about being ‘creative’

Granny Smith’s Bloody Navel.

Apple pie is good. Orange pie is a strange idea. However, apple juice and orange juice are both tasty beverages. What else do these fruits have in common? How are they different?

When Life Gives You Apples and Oranges, Make Waldorf Salad

When Life Gives You Apples and Oranges, Eat Them

I’d compare the characteristics of the different given to anthropomorphic apple vs. orange characters in advertising, children’s shows, and/or cartoons. I’d write it as if it were a serious topic of great scholarly interest, yet mysteriously neglected by The Discovery Channel. ;-)

Is it all just a flavor metaphor, or does it go deeper than that?

Try to work in puns about fruit metaphors such as “juicy”, “core”, “skin deep”, “well-rounded characters”, and orange characters being “thick-skinned”.

Your teacher wants you to be creative! Use your own brain instead of Fluther. You’ll learn more that way.

An apple, the fruit you grab when laziness takes over and pealing orange skins becomes too much of a task.

The only quote that I can think of comes from the movie “My big fat greek wedding”. It’s presented by the greek patriarch at his daughters wedding to a non greek man. It goes something like this:

“You know, the root of the word Miller is a Greek word. Miller come from the Greek word “milo,” which is mean “apple,” so there you go. As many of you know, our name, Portokalos, is come from the Greek word “portokali,” which mean “orange.” So, okay? Here tonight, we have, ah, apple and orange. We all different, but in the end, we all fruit.”