Dandy Boy

 was a pre-War company in the United States, producing packaged foods. Dandy Boy apples were their major product.

It can be assumed that, since real apples would have rotted after 200 years, Dandy Boy used irradiation methods when producing foodstuffs. (During the 1950's, it was thought that food could be permanently irradiated with a "harmless" amount of radiation, which prevented bacterial growth and hence to a large degree spoilage. It was not until the 1950's that sufficient quantities of suitable isotopes for the treatment of food were available. It turned out the level of radiation required to achieve this level of preservation was in fact quite harmful, but would explain the radioactive nature of virtually all pre-war foodstuffs in the game, as in the Fallout world it might have been done anyway. See also the "Atoms For Peace" program. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/277930/the_dangers_of_irradiated_food.html).

Appearances
The Dandy Boy name has only appeared in Fallout 3, on the box of their product; Dandy Boy apples.