From the egg to the apples?

[andrewwai]

what does the latin quote ab ovo usque ad mala mean, other than the literal 'from the egg to the apples' or some say from the soup tot he nuts?

[doorknob]

(lit., from the egg to the apples, a term borrowed from Roman banquets, which began with eggs and ended with fruit), From beginning to end; from first to last.