The Apple logo is a bite mark from Steve Jobs’ dog.

The Apple logo is not just a picture of an apple. It’s a bite mark from Steve Jobs’ dog.

That’s the claim made by former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée in a new blog post. Gassée, who worked at Apple between 1980 and 1990, writes that the original Macintosh team at Apple was working on creating icons for the new operating system when Jobs came up with the idea of using an apple with a bite taken out of it. The team thought it was “too corny,” but Jobs insisted on it, and they eventually complied.

“Steve loved it so much that he insisted that this image be used to represent the company as well,” Gassée writes. “He even had T-shirts printed with this design on them.”

“Then one day, Steve brought his dog to work,” he continues. “And as any dog owner knows, when dogs like something, they tend to drool all over it.”