What is "mcintosh"

kind of red apples, 1874, from John McIntosh (b.1777), Ontario farmer who found them in 1796 while clearing woodland on his farm and began to cultivate them. The surname is Gaelic Mac an toisich "son of the chieftain."

The McIntosh , McIntosh Red, or colloquially the Mac is an apple cultivar, the national apple of Canada. The fruit has red and green skin, a tart flavour, and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. In the 20th century it was the most popular cultivar in Eastern Canada and New England, and is considered an all-purpose apple, suitable both for cooking and eating raw. Apple Inc. employee Jef Raskin named the Macintosh line of personal computers after the fruit.

John McIntosh discovered the original McIntosh sapling on his Dundela farm in Upper Canada in 1811. He and his wife bred it, and the family started grafting the tree and selling the fruit in 1835. In 1870, it entered commercial production, and became common in northeastern North America after 1900. While still important in production, the fruit's popularity fell in the early 21st century in the face of competition from varieties such as the Gala. According to the US Apple Association website it is one of the fifteen most popular apple cultivars in the United States.

__NOTOC__ McIntosh, Macintosh, or Mackintosh ( Gaelic: ) may refer to:

McIntosh, Macintosh, or Mackintosh ( Gaelic: ) is a Scottish surname, originating from the Clan Mackintosh. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alastair McIntosh (born 1955), Scottish writer, academic and activist
• Andrew McIntosh (professor) (born 1952), Professor of Thermodynamics at the University of Leeds and director of Truth in Science
• Andrew McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey (1933–2010), British Labour politician
• Cameron Mackintosh (born 1946), British theatrical producer
• Charles Henry Mackintosh (1820–1896), Irish preacher and Christian writer
• Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), Scottish inventor
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), Scottish architect and designer
• D. N. McIntosh (1822-1896), leader of Creek Confederate regiment in the U. S. Civil War
• David McIntosh (disambiguation)
• Donald McIntosh (mathematician) (1868–1957)
• Donald McIntosh (1838–1876), Canadian-born officer in Custer's 7th Cavalry who was killed at Little Big Horn
• Colonel E. E. B. Mackintosh, Director of the Science Museum, London
• Erick McIntosh (born 1987), American football player
• Ewart Alan Mackintosh (1893–1917), lieutenant in the British army during the First World War and a war poet
• Gavin MacIntosh (born 1999), American actor and model
• Hamish McIntosh, Australian rules footballer
• Harold Mackintosh, 1st Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, (1891–1964), son of confectioner John Mackintosh
• James M. McIntosh, Confederate Army general in the American Civil War
• John Mackintosh (disambiguation)
• John McIntosh (disambiguation)
• Lachlan McIntosh, American Revolutionary War general and political leader
• Lucy Mackintosh (born 1956), co-owner of Lucy Mackintosh Contemporary Art Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Maggie McIntosh, American politician from Maryland
• Murray McIntosh (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
• Pat McIntosh, Scottish mystery writer
• Robert J. McIntosh (born 1922), U.S. Representative from Michigan
• Robert Mackintosh 'Red Rob' (c. 1745-1807), Edinburgh music composer
• Robert Reynolds Macintosh (1897–1989), first Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics, Oxford
• Stephanie McIntosh (b. 1985), Australian singer
• William M'Intosh (also spelled McIntosh) (1838-1931), Scottish physician and marine zoologist
• William McIntosh (1775–1825), Chief of the Lower Creek Indians
• William Priestly MacIntosh (1857-1930), Australian sculptor
• W. S. McIntosh, civil rights leader in Dayton, Ohio in the 1960s and 1970s
• Winston Hubert McIntosh (1944–1987), better known as Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician